Are you planning to give your team members a gift this year? Let’s share our ideas.
Read more…Will you be connecting with any of the Christmas or Hanukkah events during these weeks? Let’s share our opportunities and experiences.
Read more…Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in a Student Ministry Parent & Guardian luncheon. David Reed, our Student Minister, asked me to prepare a list of Enrichment Center books for parents and guardians. I followed up asking if I could be the
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I'm attempting to weed our 242 section, primarily devotional books in the calendar format. How does everyone handle this section? With all the ones published each year, do you carry them in your library? How do you weed?
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Read more…During the July 20, 2024 gathering of the Middle Tennessee Church Library Ministry Network, we agreed we would like to collaborate on developing a list of women authors who write historical fiction. Since everyone is busy, how about just writing a na
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I used to be able to look up a dewey decimal number for my non fiction books by going to an oclc webpage but it has been discontinued as of Jan 1 of this year. I moved to NM and am now the church librarian at my new church and don't know w
Read more…If you are a veteran, share with us where you served or are serving. We thank you for our freedom.
Read more…One of our topics during last Saturday's (October 19, 2024) Middle Tennessee Church Library Ministry Network gathering was sharing titles on hospice and end of life needs. Have you discovered books to have for families dealing with hospice care? Ple
Read more…How do you determine if a concordance and other theological resources are out of date in your collection?
Read more…Another topic discussed on October 19 in Franklin, TN was requested by some in our group who do not have automated collections. How to keep track of circulation? If you do not have an automated collection, how do you track circulation?
Read more…Babs Harris asks the following?
Our team just completed a training seminar on the Atriuum software.
We are adding foreign language books, specifically Spanish due to our ESL classes, to our collection. We would like to keep these on a separate shelf for now. Anybody have hints on how to mark the spine of these books to make it noticable if they end
Read more…Barb is looking for ways to better use their library web page as a pointer to other resources (doctrinally sound apps/web pages). How are you using your church’s library’s website to make people aware of sound apps and web pages? And other ways?
Read more…Babs Harris and her team are working on a small display in the adult area of their building. Question: When you have display locations away from the library that are not considered satellite location, how do you identify the locations of the items in
Read more…What magazines are available to your church family?
How do you use magazines to find books and DVDs for the library?
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One of the North Alabama conference sessions on November 5 is focused on customer service. Why wait until November 5? The way we treat people who use church libraries kinda falls in the circluation category of all that we do. Let's use the following
Read more…The breakout session facilitators are collaborating on what they will do during the North Alabama Church Library Conference on November 2. The faclitators are Allison Maynard, Bev League, Carolyn Walker, Marty Woodall, and Morlee Maynard. Patty Easte
Read more…Here's a twist on our filing system discussion. Let’s get specific about our filing systems.
How do you file purchasing receipts for the library? How long to do you keep these receipt files?
Read more…Our library team has been conducting inventory of our library. None of us are very familiar with Concourse and the last time inventory was done was before Covid. We have completed the nonfiction, fiction, and DVD items but still have the children's i
Read more…How do you approach the inventory task? For our growing number of new librarians joining the CLN, share your inventory tips whether you conduct the inventory manually or with software.
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