Reorganizing the Homeschool Library

I finally decided to get my curriculum and literature organized throughout the house.  Since it wasn't likely we would have a wall shelf in the basement anytime soon, I had to have some more organization to my books.  

So I emptied the dried food, herbs, and teas from the dining room unit and put all the historical books as well as a few novels on the upper two shelves.  These are the living books used for history, science, and geography.  The lower shelf has my homestead collection on it.  

Then I cleared the hutch and put more novels in the cabinet, with older books in the alcove.   

I emptied the metal file cabinet in the basement and brought all the curriculum upstairs to go through and organize.  The left shelf contains mostly children's non-fiction books sorted by subject.  The right shelf is curriculum sorted by subject.  The top has literature by author.  Most are book series. The brown bins have science and math related manipulatives and tools.  

The remaining novels, fiction, and field guides are on a small shelf in the same room.   

The girls have a full shelf of various book series from Animal Ark to Pony Pals, Mandie and more.  

Caleb has another bookshelf in his room with all the picture books.  It has yet to be organized since I need to pull out all the baby books and poorly written books (twaddle) that have been given to the kids in the past.  Caleb has outgrown many of them, so I will have to determine what gets kept and what gets donated.  

It does feel good to get the books organized and in a place to use them when I need them.  I was surprised that I only had about four or five book duplicates.  With as many books as we have, I would think my overloaded brain would have done it more often. 

Meanwhile, if you are looking for used curriculum, take a look at the Homeschool Curriculum Page on my blog.