Monday 12th – Friday 16th August. More Books!

Book referencing time! Or what I like to call the fun stuff. The general plan was to sort all the books in their subjects, catalogue them onto an excel sheet (title, author, level, publisher and quantity) and then attach coloured tabs to the spines to distinguish their subject when on the shelves. Sounds quick, but first you had to organise every book into piles where there were duplicates, of which there were hundreds. That involved lifting lots of books into a different place. Then the counting and cataloguing, before attaching the colour paper tab with sticky tape and boxing them back up. It was long work, but fun, because I like to sort and sift and organise :) The perfect job? I also like to paint haha.

It was a long week of sorting books and running out of sellotape! By Friday we had three extra rolls, and all of Fiction, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geography, Business and Economics were catalogued onto the excel spreadsheet and labelled. Just general science, English and reference books left, phew!

Our system is quite simple to make the use of the library easier – each subject has a colour, like red for science, blue for English, purple for fiction and so forth, and is then split into levels by the writing on the coloured tab. All of the fiction books have the first three letters of the authors surname written on the spine, with an added circle for plays and a cross for poetry. Maths books suitable for Form 1 have an M 1 on the yellow spine label, and just an M if it’s a general book for all levels. Simples?