One of our new members is starting a new church library. They need shelves. Any recommendations?
Read more…" 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
Read more…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?
Read more…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
Read more…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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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
Read more…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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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
Read more…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
Read more…Any surprises or interesting experiences yesterday as your church celebrated Easter through their library?
Read more…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!
Read more…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
Read more…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.
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