Q&A

What About the Children’s Area?

Or perhaps your church/parish/synagogue calls infants through 12-year-olds NextGen these days. We have not discussed this area of our libraries in a long time.

What are some NextGen area tips you have learned in your church's/parish's/synagogue's li

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Are We Open to Using New Terms?

Recently, a group of library friends and I gave some thought to the terms we us in the church library world. All of us are experiencing major changes in our church families.

1. These changes are gradually introduced or suddenly thrown at us as church

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Retrieving Information

How do I retrieve information off of concourse. I need to enter holdings into a new system/ computer. I don't think concourse has any new updates for the system

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Library Supplies?

From Tanya Nelson:

I need some good suggestions for finding library supplies at a reasonable cost. I need to update signage, labels, etc. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Tanya

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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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Revitalization Needs

From Stephanie Richardson

I am just getting started with revitalizing my church's library. It is a beautiful space, but for years has been a dumping ground for books that people want to get rid of - resulting in a collection of books that no one want

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Purchasing Shelves

One of our new members is starting a new church library. They need shelves. Any recommendations?

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Church Library Mission Statement

" Make new friends, but keep the old, One is silver and the other gold"--a song we used to sing in Girl Scouts.  I find myself caught in this juxtaposition--wanting to keep the best of our established library, but looking for new ways to move forward

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Library Asset Inventory

The audit committee at my church is conducting an "asset inventory" for insurance purposes.   This includes the library.  Has anyone else been part of a project like this, and can you offer any suggestions on how to prepare for it and assist with it?

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Sharing Library Space

One of our new CLN members is beginning the process for his church to revitalize their library. This library room is also used as the Welcome Center. We haven’t discussed multiuse approaches for a church/synagogue/parish library in a long time. Perha

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Enrichment Center vs library or media center

I'm looking for the previous CLN articles describing how an enrichment center varies from our traditional church libray.  Seems like there were suggested classes, discussions and activities. How does our traditional library need to change to draw tod

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Library Desk Books for Today's Libraries

 

We have discussed the Desk Book in the past. Click here to find some ideas for organizing and what to include in a Desk Book. This relates to the idea of being prepared when someone suddenly steps away from the library team. The free book Church Li

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Old Family Bibles

Our library has several old family Bibles with the family names in them, but the families are no longer in our parish.

Does anyone know what we should do with them?

 

 

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Doing an inventory in Concourse

It’s been a long time since our last inventory at my church library. It was done before I became the librarian. Can anyone walk me through the basics? We are automated (with barcodes) with Concourse and EZCat for cataloging and circulation, not Atriu

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Ways to Engage Preteens on the Library Team

Summer is here! School is out!

We have two new homeschool families who are very excited about the Enrichment Center.These preteens (4-7 graders but churches varying in grouping) want to help this summer since their families will not be traveling as

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Easter Stories to Share?

Any surprises or interesting experiences yesterday as your church celebrated Easter through their library? 

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Any experience with the Librarika program?

Hello!  

Has anyone here heard of or used the library system called "Librarika"?  

Upon first glance, it seems like it will fulfill the needs of our small church library, but I wanted to see if anyone has had experience with it.

Thank you!

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rclsoftware

Over  15 years ago, our little church's library purchased the rclsoftware for cataloguing. It has met our needs perfectly and survived upgrades. It continues to work and thankfully, I have not needed any technical support, since it is no longer avail

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No cost library system

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

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Protecting your books

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

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