![]() It’s that relationship you have with your children that you know they’re going to come to you when there’s something that isn’t right. They would come to me and say, “Mom, there’s a problem with this book.” And I made sure that there wasn’t anything that was very inappropriate in the books. Karen: I trusted my children to tell me if there was something that was inappropriate or if the story was not as well-written as we would have liked, and I trusted their judgment. Sonya: How did you handle, then, making those available to the kids when you weren’t sure what was in there? I realize we’re getting off the topic of organizing now, but these are questions we all ask each other. And later, you read them and sometimes you find good gems, and sometimes you find ones that you no longer want in your library and you get rid of them. When the books are costing you 25 or 50 cents, you take a chance on them. Many of them, we got at library book sales and they looked like good books. ![]() Sonya: So, you had pre-read all of those books before you put them on the shelf? The kids didn’t read those outside of school time, at that time, but any other book on the shelf was free for them to read whenever they wanted to. Then we just worked our way through those. When we were doing a certain time period for history, I would pull the books that we wanted to read for school time, and those went on a shelf that was accessible to our school area. Sonya: Now, when your kids were younger and you had certain books you were doing for school, did you keep those in a separate place where the kids would not have access to them? Or how did you work that with your shelves? Was everything on the shelves fair game for them? How did that go? So it’s easy to go to a section and I can find what I need. Weather books are together geology books are together. And if I have books on bees and ants, and things like that, those are all grouped together also within the insect category. Sonya: The biography section, is that chronological or the last name of person being told about? Is it in alphabetical order? One of my sons really likes fairy tales, so we have a fairy tale section, too, because we have many fairy tale books. I have a biography section, and then, of course, fiction is the other section I have. So, all my Ancient Egypt books are together, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and so forth, through history. General history books are put together in chronological order. So those books are grouped together and they’re in chronological order. I have sections for series of history books, like the Landmark books, and there are others out there. We appreciate all the books that you review in science for us. Sonya: I assume that’s a large section for you. Science materials, nature type things, have a section. I have picture books and then books that would be longer picture books or short stories that would be for young children have a section. Karen: I have some more broad categories. Sonya: Okay, so how do you keep track of where it is? How do you organize the shelves? I assume you don’t have any shelf locations in that software, right? All right, so that’s how you keep track of what you have. (laughs) But because you can access this information then on your phone, you’ve got it at all the used book sales everywhere you go. Sonya: Well, we’re not going to talk about that, because we’ve all done that and we probably still do. It also keeps me from buying duplicates of what I already have at home. Karen: Yes, and you know who has them so you know who to ask. ![]() Sonya: Then you can track it down if it doesn’t come back-in a nice way. But this software also has a feature that if a friend borrows a book, you can check it out in his or her name, and then you have a record of who has your books. Thankfully, my daughter has taken the time to enter every single one and the condition and the description of each and that type of thing. ![]() It keeps a record of all the books I have. Karen: It’s called Bookpedia, is the software and then the app for your phone or something like it is called Pocketpedia. If I don’t know if I have it or where to get it, then I check my app that has all of my library on it. How do you organize it? How do you keep track? I assume you know what books you have, and when you want to find one, you know right where to go to get it. And you don’t have those double stacked at all? Sonya: That is true, you have to be careful of it. Karen: They’re in the living room, the kitchen, the front room, and in all the bedrooms. Where else have you tucked these bookshelves? Sonya: Last time I was there, you had bookshelves on pretty much any empty wall space there was and you had it around the railing of the stairs to your basement. I think yours is probably… if you put Laura’s and mine together, it might be close to your size library. Thanks so much for being willing to share with us about your library. ![]()
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