Shelving Books

Today, I assisted Mrs. Deep in returning the books to the shelves. This was a fairly easy task to do since I have previously learned Mrs. Deep's routine and organizational strategies in her library. I have already helped Mrs. Deep with returning checked out books to the shelves during one of my other courses in this degree. However, I found that I was a little out of practice! I'll be honest, for the first 30 minutes of the time I was there, I had to think about the Dewey Decimal system pretty hard. However, Mrs. Deep has small posters that she created to help students (and myself!) to find books that they are interested in. I also assisted students in finding books that they were interested in. For example, I asked 3 students if they needed help to find something in particular, and each student told me what they liked. I then helped them to use the poster to find the area that they needed to look in. Once they spotted the area, I helped them to find their perfect book! I was so excited to be able to help students and see their eyes light up when they found a book that they were really interested in. I've provided a picture of this poster below.