Creating a lending library in the classroom: Simple and easy technology solutions for your texts

Look around your classroom. Chances are you, like most teachers reading this article right now, have a sizeable classroom library of materials somewhere in view. These classroom collections are of great importance as South Carolina and other states move toward the integration of more informational texts in the curriculum and students come to our schools with an ever-wider variety of needs in their reading materials. While the classroom library is important, it can be difficult to find and organize the collections in ways that work to both catalog and track the materials when they are borrowed by students or colleagues. This column provides some suggestions for free or low cost options you may wish to use in your classroom to make the most of your own library.