S/o Book placement

[Pintosrock]

Dd has numerous biographies, including a bunch from the Dear America, Childhood of Famous Americans, and the Who was series. She thinks each series should sit by itself on the shelf. I think they should be in chronological order, irrespective of what series they belong to. What do you think?

[Loowit]

I would put them by series first, then chronological.

[Junie]

16 minutes ago, Pintosrock said:

Dd has numerous biographies, including a bunch from the Dear America, Childhood of Famous Americans, and the Who was series. She thinks each series should sit by itself on the shelf. I think they should be in chronological order, irrespective of what series they belong to. What do you think?

The Dear America we keep separate, because they are not actual biographies.  Other biographies are shelved in alphabetical order by the person's last name.

[maize]

I would do chronological within series. Just looks nicer and more orderly.

[Carol in Cal.]

I'd do chron within series as well, but I would pull the ones for the current semester onto a specific 'current studies' shelf.  I always did that with history and art books because it kind of teed them up and I was less likely to forget one.  Sometimes we would take a break from a chron history study and do a homegrown unit study on a country or some specific issue, like CA state history or history and culture of Japan.  In those cases, I would scan the whole collection (lots and lots of books) and put all the appropriate titles into that 'current studies' location, too.  That would include history books, living books, art, natural history, etc.  Those would go back into their regular categories at the end of the study.

Edited January 7, 2020 by Carol in Cal.

[vonfirmath]

39 minutes ago, Pintosrock said:

Dd has numerous biographies, including a bunch from the Dear America, Childhood of Famous Americans, and the Who was series. She thinks each series should sit by itself on the shelf. I think they should be in chronological order, irrespective of what series they belong to. What do you think?

 

I like to keep series together. (it drives me nuts that my son's has Who Was books all over the place. Here, there and everywhere.  And the Missionary Then and Now series -- again, not kept together.  As long as they are shelved, though, I stay hands off. They are his books, not mine.)

are they your daughter's books?

 

Edited January 7, 2020 by vonfirmath

[SKL]

I too would shelve by series.  It should be easy enough to find the individual ones within the series, and it would look better.  🙂

I would add that if that's what the child wants in her own room, it is definitely not a battle I would engage in.

[73349]

2 hours ago, Carol in Cal. said:

I'd do chron within series as well, but I would pull the ones for the current semester onto a specific 'current studies' shelf.  I always did that with history and art books because it kind of teed them up and I was less likely to forget one.  Sometimes we would take a break from a chron history study and do a homegrown unit study on a country or some specific issue, like CA state history or history and culture of Japan.  In those cases, I would scan the whole collection (lots and lots of books) and put all the appropriate titles into that 'current studies' location, too.  That would include history books, living books, art, natural history, etc.  Those would go back into their regular categories at the end of the study.

This. Things to use this year are on a special shelf in the order in which we plan to use them.

[gardenmom5]

are they her books?  her choice

are they in her room?  her choice

are they in "public" space? - who makes those decisions?  

[katilac]

4 hours ago, Pintosrock said:

Dd has numerous biographies, including a bunch from the Dear America, Childhood of Famous Americans, and the Who was series. She thinks each series should sit by itself on the shelf. I think they should be in chronological order, irrespective of what series they belong to. What do you think?

Your dd is correct 😄

Chronological within the series, unless it is a numbered series, in which case I am shelving by number no matter what. No one wants to see the kind of crazy I can get when surrounded by a line of books numbered 7, 3, 6, 9, 4 . . . 

[Pintosrock]

Argh, I may have to conceed! Y'all were supposed to agree with me! 😉

The books do live in a common area. Most have been acquired with our history studies in mind. I'll say they are dd's, but she would only lay claim to the biographies of astronauts. 

I will say that by doing the grand chronological order, I've been able to see how our book distribution is - we are extremely heavy during the Revolutionary era and the space race. I'll have to remember that at the library booksales!

[Farrar]

I also think a series looks so pretty together. And if there's enough books and it's on a crowded shelf, it can be turned sideways, which is exciting to me. I know, it's wrong, but I totally do it with things we have a ton of series books of.

[Hannah]

I don't think it has ever occurred to me to break up a series and wondering what that says about my brain.

We've sold ours, but they were chronological within the series.  I made  list of all the books we were going to use for the term.

[J-rap]

5 hours ago, Hannah said:

I don't think it has ever occurred to me to break up a series and wondering what that says about my brain.

We've sold ours, but they were chronological within the series.  I made  list of all the books we were going to use for the term.

I was wondering the same thing.  OP - I think your thoughts on this are highly unusual!  Not wrong!  Just different from what most people would naturally conclude.