My Church has been using Atrium Book systems for several years now. My church is going through a need for reduction in our budget and my pastor has asked me to give up that system after this year because the price keeps increasing. He made a suggesti
Read more…What, if anything, do you use to protect your books for circulation (both soft cover and hard cover)?
Contact paper? Book sleeves? If sleeves, are there height-adjustable sleeve options, or do you need to keep several sizes on hand in order to get
Read more…Are you planning to give your team members a gift this year? Let’s share our ideas.
Read more…Babs Harris asks the following?
Our team just completed a training seminar on the Atriuum software.
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…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…The start of a new church year is a great time to initiate or strengthen relationships with church staff ministers and pastors. How are you approaching that this year? Let’s share our stories.
Read more…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
Read more…Now is a great time to contact your age group ministers, women’s ministers, men’s ministers, and other ministers to discuss how the church library can assist their plans for the new ministry year. A common question for all of them involves their disc
Read more…For many of our church or synagogue families, the Finance Committee has started the process to prepare the budget for the next year. Of course, many other churches start their budget process during other months. Let’s discuss best practices for prepa
Read more…One of our new Church Librarians Network members lives in the Nashville area, Lydia Neeley. She and her pastor are seriously talking about a vision for revitalizing the library in their church. She came to our Middle Tennessee librarians gathering on
Read more…During the April 20, 2024 Middle Tennessee Church Librarians Ministry Network gathering, we shared lots of great ideas for funding sources. What do you suggest?
Read more…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
Read more…From Martha Jo Dendinger
Do you have separate libraries for the congregation and the school? We are acquiring K-8 school with 87 students. Would love to hear from this wonderful group of wisdom.
Blessings,
Martha
Read more…Our schools are taking this week off for Fall Break. So our church weekday activities are cancelled this week. Our team is using our Wednesday workday to continue our inventory. How does your team use school break weeks?
Read more…Hi, Everyone!
I have been asked to organize our church library (it hasn't been reviewed in years).
A friend of mine introduced me to the app LibraryThing and I know that it will be a HUGE help to me to organize.
But I'd love to find an online progr
Read more…We have not grappled with the Circulation Desk needs lately. How do you coordinate the Circulation Desk needs on Sundays and weekdays?
Read more…Do you have the opportunity to give reports to the church family in some way about the status of the library? Business Meetings? Staff Meetings? Did you have that opportunity in the past? If you do, share with us how you do such. Note that this ques
Read more…Church Library Ministry is well known among other ministries for the strong history of a variety of training events through the years. While many ministries have given up on providing training for church leaders due to lack of funding, librarians hav
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