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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Do you have a way to remember names and faces of people when they checkout books?
Read more…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
Read more…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?
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…I wish those that responded with links to catalog would include size of libary collection
Read more…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?
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…How and what can our library teams help equip our church and synagogue families to participate in preparations being made now in many of our communities for the arrival of 95,000 refugees?
Read more…Many of our CLN members are serving in library ministry in smaller churches. Let’s say 100 or less in weekly attendance. What are your secrets to providing a library ministry that meets the needs and interests of people in your church family?
Read more…What does that mean today? How does that work in our churches today? Why is that important for our ministries?
Read more…Many of us are finishing up or have already turned in our budget requests for 2022. Or some churches start the budget year in October or another month. Budget preparation is an important aspect of what we do through our churches’ libraries.
What hav
Read more…Have you asked your liaison staff person if there will be any updates to the church's mission, vision, and core values? I asked our liaison two weeks ago. He emailed me the updated edition. He asked me not to share it with anyone until it is introduc
Read more…Mary Mardiguian, Co-Librarian, Faith Presbyterian Church, Colorado sent the following question:
What is your opinion about separating adult and juvenile book collections? Our children and youth ministries wish to move the children’s books to another
Read more…Mary Mardiguian, Co-Librarian, Faith Presbyterian Church, Colorado sent the following questions:
Have you used surveys with your congregations? What have been the value of the surveys? What content was included in the surveys? Would you be able to
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