Labeling the books!

Our next step in genrefication was to label every nonfiction book in the collection.  We went shelf by shelf.  My awesome assistants accomplished this feat in about a month.

For some shelves, it was very easy to figure out:

The Cooking section was easy!

For other shelves, it was easy to figure out but we used a variety of different labels:

A variety of topics in the 000's!

Some topics where harder:

1.  How broadly do we define narrative nonfiction?

• We used a combination of how the book was labeled in Destiny and our own judgement.

2.  Should we split Heath into two sections? 

• Yes!  We ended up splitting this section into "Health" and created another section "Wellness"

3.  What section do books about ninjas go in?  

• After much discussion, we decided on crime because we have a subsection there for spies.  Sports and Fun & Games were also options.  It was a lot of discussion over our 3 ninja books.

Ninjas confuse us all.

And of course, there were the subsections we forgot about and added in as we went along:

• Psychology- we split our psycholgy books into strictly science (Science section) and self-help (Wellness Section). We did this on the advice of of the Psych teacher, who we also confused in the process!
• Philosophy- Wellness subsection.
• Photography- Art subsection
• Design- Art subsection
• Education- Wellness subsection
• Natural Disasters- Science subsection