Shelving will likely be a part of your summer with the library. Here are some helpful tutorials and hand-outs:
HPL's basic shelving guidelines
Dewey Decimal Tutorial By William K. Grainger
List Dewey Decimal Classifications
Dewey Decimal Tutorial and Practice
Order in the Library Game
Shelf reading is an important part of librarianship. Often people pull books out as they are browsing, then put them back on a different shelf or a different place. This makes it very difficult to find a specific book or other item when someone has looked it up on the catalog and wants that particular book. Shelf reading is simply looking at the books on any shelf to make sure they are in order and reshelving them if they are in the wrong place.
Display books are a great way to help patrons who are looking for something interesting, but not a specific book. Just remember, if you are displaying a book, display it on the same shelf or end-cap where it belongs. If someone is looking for a fiction book and it is displayed in the non-fiction, the person will never find it.
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