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ORGANIZING FILES; SUBJECTS AND CATEGORIES
Someone had asked about organizing books and files:
Doing some research on my own writing, I came up with several ideas while trying to INDEX those writings. Here are some ideas.
1. Christian Life and Spiritual Growth
Christian encouragement
Faith
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Church Librarians Network Q&A Topics
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Morlee
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES
I ran across some very interesting tag-lines Librarian can use for Signs if wanted or needed.
Library Display Lines
Warning: These books have been banned somewhere.
Handle with care—ideas inside.
These books were judged by their covers.
Caution: Free th
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Christian Fiction for men
Looking for recommendations for Christian fiction novels for men.
Thanks!
First Baptist Church, Kingsport, TN
Jonna Bridgeman replied:
All of Charles Martin's books would be good.
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QR Codes
Do you use QR Codes in the library? Or in promotional materials?
We have a QR Code sign beside the entrance to the Enrichment Center (library) both inside and outside. The sign is also next to our self-checkout box. The Code is a link to our online
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Parenting Resource Center
As we continue with revitalizing our very full library and working to put books in the hands of our church members, we have plans to create a new satellite location in the building where our parents of growing families congregate for Bible study. It
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Easter Books for School-aged Children
Our library has a generous amount of Easter books for both young children and adults, but very little for elementary, middle school, or youth ages. Can you recommend any for these age groups?
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Publisher discounts? Wish-list for library purchases?
Hello everyone,
I am working to revitalize our church's library and will soon be purchasing a lot of new books to fill our shelves. I was wondering if any of you have ever had any success with asking publishers for a church library discount if you pur
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Classifying Non-Fiction
We have a very small church library that needs reorganized and cleaned up. How do you classify your Non-Fiction section without using Dewey or Library of Congress? I am thinking of organizing by author's last name to keep it simple and doing the same
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Easter 2026 Display?
Which Easter books are you featuring this time? Feel free to share by posting a photo or list the titles.
This Wednesday, I will be placing these books on our display:
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Filing System for a Church Library?
We have a new member who is revitalizing a church library. She wants to know what you use as a filing system for your needs. Do you use administration, collection development, promotion, and cataloging as the main categories with sub-categories? Or a
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Where do you catalog book reviews?
We have several borrowers who do written reviews of the books they read. We want to add them to our automated library catalog. Where in the item record would you recommend putting them? I took cataloging class almost ten years ago and don't recall di
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Church Library Social Media pages
Could we start a thread listing social media links for those who have dedicated library pages on social media? There may be one all ready and I just didn't see it.
It's always great to look and get ideas from other churches and to help support other c
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Summer Plans
I'm thinking about our summer plans--the window emphasis, summer reading programs, etc. It is our nation's 250th anniversary, so I'm planning to work along that theme.
i would welcome any and all ideas--particularly the reading challenges!
Thanks!
B
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Mission Trips
In thinking about the summer, we will have multiple teams going to Honduras for mission trips. I would like to build up our small selection of books about missions. As we are reducing the number of holdings in our library and are desiring to have th
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DVD
We have purged our CD collection, but hesitated letting go of all DVDs. We wanted to determine if there was any demand for them.
Not one has been checked out since then!
I'm wondering if other smaller libraries are keeping these, are they being check
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Bible studies
We are still in the process of setting up our library, getting spine lables on books and figuring out shelf organization. An area I've been putting off dealing with is Bible studies. Our shelves are 3'x7' and one entire shelving unit is Bible studies
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Catalog: Curated Collections: Location
As we progress in revitalizing our library, we are grouping some collections of certain non-fiction topics, such as Discipleship, Grief, etc. We are not pulling every book off the shelf that has to do with a subject to move to each collection but wil
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Notifying the Church of Free Weeded Materials
As we have been weeding for a while now, we have many boxes of CDs and older novels which we plan to offer to our church people first before offering them to smaller churches.
I plan to display them on several long tables in an entry foyer.
as most o
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Roxy Klassen wants to know . . .
What review sites do you use to determine if a book should be added to your library?
I've used https://www.alignmyread.com/ for adult books.
And https://christianparentreviews.com/ for kids books.
But they don't hav