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Project Genre-fy the Fiction Section - New Signage

As I was finishing moving our fiction section into the new genre sections, I realized that I was going to need new signage.  As students are browsing for books I really want to make sure that the kids can see directly where to go to find their favorite genres, while making browsing a little more user friendly. When I checked out Tiffany Whitehead's ( @librarian_tiff ) post " Ditching Dewey Choosing Genre Categories " I noticed the really cool posters she had to go along with her genre sections.  They had a kind of word cloud feel to them that I really liked. And I thought it would be neat to combine a word cloud that described the section with a picture of the genre sticker I used.  That way my signs would be informative and model a consistent design.   Not Your Ordinary Word Clouds For this particular design concept, Wordle , my go-to word cloud generator, just wasn't going to do.  The Edudemic post " 9 Word Cloud Generators that Aren't Wordle " l