Q&A

Library serving with the In-Home Ministry

My church calls our homebound ministry the In-Home Ministry. Last night I had a long overdue conversation with the leader of our In-Home Ministry. She loves the idea of the Enrichment Center collaborating with the In-Home Ministry. 

How do you work w

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Policies

On March 4 I will be facilitating a session during the Central Alabama Spring Conference on policies. I just searched the word "policies" on the CLN. I found 46 posts with lots of replies. Looks like we have not had any discussions related to policie

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Engaging and Coordinating Library Volunteers

Edie Asbury posted the following request:

I am looking for tips on engaging with and coordinating library volunteers. This will be a focus of the next BIC Church Librarians Newsletter (BIC = Brethren in Christ).

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Location of Library

Adair Elwing posted:

Background: They moved our kids to building on far side of campus for SS and started Childrens Church in  Fellowship Hall so they are not in Sanctuary at all. Use to get kids checking out from cart in Sanctuary but now unless th

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Returns

How do your customers return items? Do you have a drop box in the hallway? A place in the library? Feel free to paste a picture in your reply or post on Photos. 

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Has anyone been sucessful at having kids library in one building and adults in the other?

Adair Elwing asks the following question:

Background: They moved our kids to building on far side of campus for SS and started Childrens Church in  Fellowship Hall so they are not in Sanctuary at all. Use to get kids checking out from cart in Sanctua

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Team Leaders Corner: Christmas or Hanukkah Gifts for Team Members

How do you plan to show your love and appreciation for your team members through Christmas or Hanukkah this year? Does your team have traditions? Do you give them a gift with words of appreciation?

 

 

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Church's Digital Presence?

Lynn Floyd Wright has a question for us to discuss:

How do you justify to your bosses that your church library is necessary?  We've got a new pastor (not even 40 yet!) and he wants to put resources into church's digital presence.

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Door Sign?

Sherall Cornwall needs our help!

We are remodeling our library after 20 years! Need ideas for our new door sign. Suggestions? This is what we have now.

 

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How do you remember names?

Do you have a way to remember names and faces of people when they checkout books?

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Planning and Budgeting for 2023

Last Wednesday evening (August 10), we had our annual Enrichment Center Team planning session which all feeds into our Budget preparations. We have a couple of new team members so that was fun getting to know each other. We reviewed our Atriuum stati

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Administration: Donations or Gifts?

How do you process financial donations in memory of someone or in honor of someone? Do you have a policy statement about such? When you remove an item that was added to the collection with donation funds, what do you do about that recognition?

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Sunday Morning Group Meets in Church Library?

With the high cost of building these days, churches are having to make difficult decisions about space needs when more people come to church on Sundays. How have those of you who have a group meeting in the library during the Bible study time accomod

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Are you in need of ideas for something?

We are all working on changes or addtions to our library ministries. You are welcome to reply to this post with your need for specific ideas. Or start a new post by clicking on the red button above on the right side. Actually, starting a new post wil

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size of your collection?

I wish those that responded with links to catalog would include size of libary collection

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Church Library Mission Statement

Yolanda Martinez is pondering if her church's library should have a mission statement?  She asks us the following: Do church librarians have mission statements that they use? 

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Inventory

In response to CLN's discussion starter on INVENTORY (Monday Mailout: February 21, 2022), I wanted to respond with what some may find as a different approach to Inventory.

The goal of an Inventory is to KNOW where every Item in our library is, either

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EBOOKS may now be affordable

For those of you who have been discouraged about the high cost of EBOOKS service, here may be some GOOD NEWS!

OverDrive® (the ebook service vendor for my church and most churches I know of) has recently made some "deals" with church libraries that are

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Team Appreciation during the Holidays

A great way to show appreciation to our team members is to give a gift of some kind to each one with a little note. Last year I gave our team jars of my favorite jelly purchased from a farm in North Carolina. A greeting card can also be used to expre

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