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The Books about Books thread has made me wonder:
How do you all keep up with all the book lists you use? I have a number of books with book lists in them, and I also find suggestions online, in catalogs, etc. In looking through some of my books I realize that there are some resources I have been looking at elsewhere that are reviewed in the books I have, but I didn't realize that because the book with the review wasn't in plain sight (or I just didn't get it out to look, didn't think of it, etc.)
Do you compile your own lists based on subject or theme? Or do you just go through your books, your online sources, and catalogs every time you're looking for books?
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Angel wrote:
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I tried to creaet a spreadsheet but it was too much work. I go through each one when looking for ideas, but I did pare down my books...to about 10...
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I use librarything, and use tags within it to sort my books.
I normally tag anything called for in the lesson plans with that grade, science books with science, etc. Often a book will have several tags but it makes it easy to see what I have.
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Great question  If we are studying a new topic say Egyptian History I go through my books about books, online book lists, catalogues and search 4Real. From those four sources I type a list of books we have, library has and maybe order some books.
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Books for history I have a time line in excel and the books are put along the time line and in 5 categories.. general and then 4 age levels. So that I can easily figure out what books I might want for a particular time period of history. Books I have I add a background color to that book.
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Erin wrote:
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Great question If we are studying a new topic say Egyptian History I go through my books about books, online book lists, catalogues and search 4Real. From those four sources I type a list of books we have, library has and maybe order some books. |
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Ditto!
I am, however, finally creating a booklist using iCal that drops in every book I have for the liturgical year and cross references it with period of history and setting. I've been wanting to do this for ages!!! Once I get everything in iCal, I can have this calendar repeat every year on the same days - so, for example, the books I have for St. Joseph's Solemnity will always appear on March 19. I like that I can also add recipes, games, and other non-book things to the different liturgical days on iCal as well and then they will pop up for me every year as I print my lesson plans (I do my lesson plans in iCal and this is why compiling my liturgical booklist makes sense for me in iCal - otherwise a spreadsheet would be great!!) After I get everything entered in iCal, I plan to make a spreadsheet for easy reference to keep in my home education binder.
If I build a booklist for history, I print it and file it when we're done and I also save it in a history folder (with EXTENSIVE subfolders) so I can find it later.
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Jodie
Being a visual person I'm trying to picture your excel spreadsheet. Do you have an actual timeline across the page with books at various spots?
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Mackfam wrote:
I am, however, finally creating a booklist using iCal that drops in every book I have for the liturgical year and cross references it with period of history and setting. I've been wanting to do this for ages!!! Once I get everything in iCal, I can have this calendar repeat every year on the same days - so, for example, the books I have for St. Joseph's Solemnity will always appear on March 19. I like that I can also add recipes, games, and other non-book things to the different liturgical days on iCal as well and then they will pop up for me every year as I print my lesson plans
If I build a booklist for history, I print it and file it when we're done and I also save it in a history folder (with EXTENSIVE subfolders) so I can find it later. |
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Do you think that google calendar would let you do this?
Sounds just fantastic!!
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Erin the timeline goes down the left side.. I mark years but it's not perfectly every line is 1 yr type of thing.. I mark centuries and then within that I keep the entries in order.. but if the first entry for the century of 1000 is 1065.. you don't see 1002, 1040,etc. that helps it stay compact.
Then across the top I have a general column, then K-grade 2 column, then grades 3-5 column, grades 6-8 column and grades 9-12 column
At the top of each artifical break that I use (like before Christ) I list any books that are very general covering huge pieces of time.. like perhaps a text book i've seen recommended for that time period. Then I put each book in it's correct column. Something that might be used for everyone.. goes in that first general age column.. like Bible readings.
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Erin wrote:
Mackfam wrote:
I am, however, finally creating a booklist using iCal that drops in every book I have for the liturgical year and cross references it with period of history and setting. I've been wanting to do this for ages!!! Once I get everything in iCal, I can have this calendar repeat every year on the same days - so, for example, the books I have for St. Joseph's Solemnity will always appear on March 19. I like that I can also add recipes, games, and other non-book things to the different liturgical days on iCal as well and then they will pop up for me every year as I print my lesson plans
If I build a booklist for history, I print it and file it when we're done and I also save it in a history folder (with EXTENSIVE subfolders) so I can find it later. |
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Do you think that google calendar would let you do this?
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I think so, Erin. I've never used google cal, but I understand it works similarly to iCal. Any calendar program should work really. As long as there is a way to add *notes* or something to the day - so you can create an "event" and then add notes attached to that event. I drop in booklists, recipes, Feast day crafts, etc. in the "notes" section of my calendar program. Then, when I print lesson plans for the week, all those notes print for me.
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Since we haven't had access to a good library in a while, I've been buying a lot of books. Therefore, I haven't been saving my scribbled lists of books -- a lot of those books simply appear on the shelves, I group them in the same spot, and I can go get one when needed.
However, I do not think this system is going to work forever.  I was thinking that if our books are going to be in storage for a while when moving that a big list would be good, because then I could take it to the library.
Jodie, are you just putting in history books, or are you also including liturgical books, literature, etc.?
Jen, how are you cross-referencing on iCal? Just adding the date/period or...?
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Angel wrote:
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Yes. So, for example under today's Feast, St. Katharine Drexel, here are what my iCal notes look like:
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19th/20th century
Pennsylvania, US
Kate from Philadelphia
by Patricia Edward Jablonski
Saint Katharine Drexel
by Susan Helen Wallace
Encounter the Saints Series
Visit St. Katharine Drexel's Shrine online
http://www.katharinedrexel.org/
Morning Prayers:
Compassionate God, who in your Son Jesus Christ healed the sick, touched the hearts of the troubled and sent disciples to announce good news to the poor, we offer this novena for peace and for the intentions of all those who are praying with us.
Ever Loving God, You called St. Katharine Drexel to teach the message of the Gospel and to bring the life of the Eucharist to Black and Native American peoples. By her prayers and example, enable us to work for justice among the poor and oppressed. Draw us all into the Eucharistic community of your Church that we may be one in you. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
One Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be
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Also, not every book gets this, but I'm adding a small white sticker to the bottom of the spine of some of my liturgical books. On that sticker I'm adding a number. That number is representative of the century represented in that book (so, 2 for 2nd century and so on). I'm doing this because I use a lot of these books when building historical reading booklists. My history library is sorted by century and sometimes setting on the bookshelves, but these books are not sorted with my living history library. Adding the small sticker on the spine allows me to see at a glance what books can be pulled to fill in particular time periods of reading.
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your system sounds like mine, jen, except i still have a ton not organized. our bookshelves are organized by subject, each subject gets a different colored label, e.g., pink for history, yellow for science, blue for religion, etc.
each colored label gets a letter and a number
H17 means History - 17th century
I've got some of my books on google calendar, kinda similar to what Jen's doing. however, at the slow rate i'm going i still might be organizing by the time all the kids are in college.  
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Angel, my list is set up for History. But in that I include stories of the saints and literature (Little Women is Civil War, etc). There are of course books that I don't include.
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Lots to contemplate - thanks!
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Mackfam wrote:
I think so, Erin. I've never used google cal, but I understand it works similarly to iCal. Any calendar program should work really. As long as there is a way to add *notes* or something to the day - so you can create an "event" and then add notes attached to that event. |
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I know it can day by day, I was wondering if I could import all my docs at one go but I have a vague memory that Stef shared that information recently that it was perhaps possible.
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erin, that's on my wish list, i haven't been able to convert spreadsheet to calendar yet -- it's convoluted  one day....
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