My library shelves are organized by genre. There about 14 subdivisions. Within each subdivision, books are arranged alphabetically by author's last name. Each shelf has a tag indicating its range (which authors, alphabetically, are on each shelf). The ranges use the last three letters of the authors' last names, since that's what is also on the spine label. All this creates a lot of opportunities for shelf ranges to spell silly things. I re-did the range tags for most of the fiction today. Some of my favorite new range options: ABB-BEY KAL-LOW OPA-QUE CIA-DOA GOT-HER SMI-THI ADA-BRO DEL-ETE FAL-GUY RAD-SHY LOC-NES GOO-HUG KIT-LOB REE-SET The reshuffle eliminated my previous favorites, PAR-ROT and ACE-BRO. I also had the good sense to (narrowly) avoid a BRA-CUP (now BRA-CUR). This is a high school, after all. I am waiting for a student to giggle over DAH-GOD and the range that ends in -FUQ, however. (It is not my fault J. Scott Fuqua's last name is spelled that way and The Reappearance…
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