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Paula in MN
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Posted: June 22 2010 at 6:54am \| IP Logged

lapazfarm wrote:

Wow. Just wow. I'm totally geeking out about those shelves.

You and me both!

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Posted: June 22 2010 at 9:02am \| IP Logged

lapazfarm wrote:

Wow. Just wow. I'm totally geeking out about those shelves.

Me too! Dd and I are drooling over them. My dream home has an extra room that can be turned into a home library. Unfortunately, I don't have any space for that now, so I just have books in every room of the house.

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Posted: June 22 2010 at 3:28pm \| IP Logged

Thank you Jennifer for your list and ideas!
I was just going through our younger science collections and even this list for the Random House "All About" books helped me too:
All About Books
and this list for library organization:
Book Organization
I just liked the second link for ideas, but it isn't what I am strictly using..I just wanted to see what other frameworks others were using.
(I have used Considering God's Creation's order in our notebooks for the younger years as they discover various topics as it is, so I use that order also on the shelves as well...)

I love perusing everyone's ideas! It makes me feel less like I am drowning in my own ideas...LOL

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Posted: June 22 2010 at 4:29pm \| IP Logged

Erin, I keep showing the pictures of your library to my dh and saying, "See? See? Isn't this cool?"

I must confess to tucking them away as ideas, too. We are closing on our new house TOMORROW and I think the way we're going to make the floor plan work is to throw all the kids upstairs in the rec room/office spaces and use the two smallish bedrooms downstairs as school area/library. I have almost two months to think about this before we actually move, though. My postpartum brain has made it up to contemplating wall color.

How do your kids use your library, Erin? Do they "check out" books and return them to the shelves when they're done? Do you have "return baskets" or a dedicated place to put finished books so you can reshelve them? Are all the books in the house in the library or are there books in other rooms, too?

I'm looking forward to reorganizing our books after we move. I had them divided into a wall of kids' books in the living room and a wall of adult books in the hallway, reference books in a couple of built-ins, plus plastic drawer units in a closet to hold all the picture books to rotate, and a couple of bookcases in the older kids' rooms for their own books... but the dividing line between "kids" and "adult" is becoming a little fuzzy since my oldest is 13 now. I need to resort the books so all the classics for the high school years have a decent place, instead of being hidden behind all the stacks of recently bought homesteading books in the hallway.

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Posted: June 22 2010 at 10:38pm \| IP Logged

Aw, Erin, now I have to go to confession and confess serious envy over your bookshelves! Who knew bookshelves could be an occasion of sin <VBG>???

Seriously, WOW!! I'm so impressed. My daughters are too.

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Posted: June 23 2010 at 1:56pm \| IP Logged

I called my husband over to look at your library, Erin, and my 8 year old came by, stared for a minute and said dreamily, "I want that library". I think she may have coveted something for the very first time! Ha ha!

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