Makerspaces Without a Space: Circulating Maker Kits for the School Library
This fall in our school library, I tried something new: I created some circulating maker kits for students in 2nd through 5th grades to check…
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Whole Number Dewey: A Year Without Decimals
It’s been almost a whole school year since I hit the “Import Titles” button and replaced ALL of my Dewey nonfiction MARC records with whole…
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Makerspace Center Update
The makerspace projects that students have been working on are really coming along. There’s a flute-playing machine, a “deadly” panda-bot, and a cat that waves…
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How to Be Brave: The Year of the Makerspace
I’ve been thinking about this post by Cari White over at her Library Learners blog, as well as the last few issues of School Library…
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How to Be Brave: Book Checkout Limits and Sacred Cows
In School Library Journal’s October 2012 issue, the cover article centered on the hot topic of Dewey vs. METIS classification systems, but the best advice…
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Dewey Nonfiction Signs Freebie!
After my last blog post about simplifying Dewey, a reader asked if I would share my Dewey nonfiction signs. I finally finished making the signs…
