Monarch Method - School Library Book Store Model
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The "Lite" Monarch Method

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Monarch Method "Lite"  

If you're not ready to make a total conversion yet- I get it. 

Why not think about trying...


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Three phases of the Monarch Method System:


Step One
   Pull Manga out of Dewey 700s Literature.  Put it in the front of the libray where it’s eye-

catching, draws the students in, and gets students interested in coming into the library 


who may not be the high end users.

Step Two
 Pull biographies out of Dewey Biography section and mix them in with subject sections.  

We found that students were consistently having difficulty finding biographies for 

research papers so this is one of the first changes we made.
For example, a student is 

assigned to find a biography of someone pivotal in the Civil War.  They would have to 

know ahead of time to look for Abraham Lincoln or Robert E. Lee or Harriet Tubman 

and then try to find those among the hundreds of biographies on the shelves.  Plus, they 

could miss learning about someone who may not be as well-known that they might really 

be interested in because they didn’t know to look for them. Now all of these biographies 

are contained in a single Civil War section so it’s one trip to find everything they need.

Step Three
 Mix Fiction and Non-Fiction sections.  While this feels taboo, it follows the Amazon or 

bookstore model that we are emulating. This model is what today’s students are used to. 

When they are looking for a book on amazon.com, they type in the subject, i.e. “Soccer.” 

From this one search they get non-fiction books about the World Cup, instruction 

manuals about the game, biographies about players, and fiction stories where soccer is 

the setting. This is exactly what we are trying to do with the Monarch Method – make 

searching more modern and intuitive for today’s students.
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