I had a great conversation with my pastor today about the Library and its use. We are a struggling library that does not have much use at all due to various factors.
He suggested that we have some sort of Survey/ Questionnaire for our Parents and Su
Some of you have already had spring break while some of us are having it this week, and others the week before Easter. Please share your church’s library activities for kids and their families during spring break this year.
We are trying to restart an old library at Prentiss Baptist Church. We have a room used jointly with a Sunday School class and some committee meetings. The room is in a good location for a library and has old but usable shelving.
I am interested in adding a small handfull of titles to our library's collection some books, for both children and adults, on either Annie Armstrong and/or modern North American missionary work in the 20th and 21st centuries. Ou
Our church directory is very outdated. Are churches now creating their own directories? Is it just a list of names of church family members or does it include photos? If it is an online directory, how are privacy i
How are books such as the I Can Read Series : Daniel and the Lion's Den , Jesus is Born , Faith Gets Us Through catalogued for shelving. It seems to me that being placed together would be easier for children to find. I've been out of this a while so
I need to update the adult fiction section. We havenot had anything new in a while. I came across Jill Eileen Smith's collection of Wives through the Bible. This is old enough that I could probably get a lot of it used. I have read one book. I have r
While looking for books about Annie Armstrong onWMU.com, I discovered a great article about today's younger preschoolers. While the article is written for teachers, I think we can find all kinds of implications for church librarians. Let’s share our
We have biography series but only a few history books for 3-5 graders. Any recommendations? I have a very frustrated 5th grade girl waiting for us to meet her interests! HELP!
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People ask us for recommendations for devotionals even though we may not include devotional books in the collection because people would check them out for a year.
What do you recommend they purchase for devotional books for children that have devot
Recently, my brother-in-law found the Cradle Roll letter sent to his parents when he was born. Does your church’s library team connect with parents of new babies in some way?
Need some ideas on how to purge non-fiction books. They have never been purged! Our fiction section is the most popular and non-fiction books are seldomly checked out except for a few authors.
Our church library has become the final resting place for Bibles left in Lost and Found for more than a year. Worn out and torn Bibles from somewhere (no one knows where) keep turning up in the library in boxes and
Yesterday I had an amazing experience with a couple who visited our church for the first time. They were in the Enrichment Center when I got there after Sunday School. Both were very excited about our library! We had a delightful conversation about t