I don’t have a book to add but this take pleases me as a librarian who is over The Hunger Games being taught every year since 2010. Can we please move on?

Cute. I’m very familiar with Dewey thanks, there are reasons libraries all over are switching to LCC or simple genrefication.

Dewey is overrated and going to be on the way out especially in school libraries where it is much easier to have books by basic topic or genre, but it is devastating that there is no librarian or library time. And the teacher who won’t let kids take books home is sad, she should create a system and just accept that some books will be lost if parents won’t take responsibility, maybe add a note to their student file. Stop adding to her library if she is losing money and the school does not provide classroom library money.

Access is the key for an early love of reading and physical copies are not precious objects to be looked at but not read. I lost hundreds of dollars of books each year with no repayment as a school librarian but that was the gig when working in a lower income area. I’d like to think the missing books were loved and reread where they ended up.