How to Organize Your Books in Your Home Library

Organizing your books helps you create a more effective and efficient home library for leisure reading and for educational purposes.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Time
• Books
• Shelves

1. Make categories of the types of books in your home library. Some common categories include children's books, science fiction books, non fiction books, mystery books, biography books, poetry books, and literature. This will help with your steps for getting organized.

2. Separate your book collection into the various categories. Depending on how detailed you want to be, you can alphabetize these by title or author. Pulling books from your shelves that you no longer want to keep will help you organize your books and reduce clutter.

3. Donate the books you no longer want to keep to your local library, local nursing homes, homeless shelter, or school's library, or you can always swap these with friends.

4. Arrange your books by category and place them on your shelves so that the books you use most often are the most easily accessible.

5. Use online library software to help you keep track of your books and what you add to your collection.

Resources

• Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter
• Organizing Your Pantry
• Female Writers Between the World Wars

[MacDonald]

on 1/2/2009 Hey, I just did this! I gave a big box of old books away on craigslist. I do a lot of swapping with a couple of friends with similar reading tastes as well. 5*. :)