Working with Middle School Books

I returned to the middle school media center to assist the media specialist is shelving books and putting series numbers of the books so that students can clearly see which book to read first, second, third, etc.  I was surprised at the number of books that middle school students do read in a series.  I spend approximately 5 hours working with this books finishing up all labels.  The media had created color codes for the books by the same author who had multiple series to eliminate any confunsion.  I enjoyed this tedious task, however, because I got to touch the books, see what middle  school students are reading, and familiarize myself with the collection of this media center.