WEBINARS  >  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2024

Creating a New School Library: Genrefying, Best Practices, and What to Know as You Go

OCT

17


Join us for this instructive and informative presentation that outlines one school’s journey of setting up a new library with genrefication at its core. We’ll explore the challenges, best practices, and more – making it an essential resource for anyone planning a new school library, genrefying a school library, or simply improving the school library you have now.

Librarian Rachel Weatherford from Katy, Texas, will discuss the many steps in her process of creating her new school library, including securing the best books within her budget; delivery and shelving coordination; collection curation; genrefication and labeling; and layout and flow of the new space.

During this webinar, attendees will learn:

1. Strategies, tips, and ideas for planning a new library
2. Her experiences as she started a new school library with genrefication
3. The process of selecting books and getting the school library set up and ready in record time
4. The two different genrefication methods she used when it came to fiction versus nonfiction
5. The results, success, and student usage of her library today, based on statistics

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