Book Fairs
Have any of you hosted book fairs? I can see the benefits, but what about the drawbacks? How do logistics work?
Thanks!
Michelle Pittenger
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Collection Development (208)
What About Teenagers?
Let's focus on teenagers this week. The age group 13-18 years old is called various titles such as youth or young adults these days. Can be confusing. The Barna group reported on this age group in June. In fact, they seem to be doing lots of research
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Circulating Yoto cards
Hello all,
Apparently Yoto cards are the media format that our parents want for their children currently as they seek to maintain low-screentime households. I'm looking for the best way to store individual cards for circulation- it seems that the def
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Church Roundtable Group Recommendations Request
I need recommendations for books for our church Roundtable group. We read Christian fiction, fiction with Christian messages (such as Theo of Golden), biographies, missions related books, books about Christian growth, etc.
Thanks for any recommenda
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Banned Books
Posted for Dorothy Lewis
As my library life is winding down, I am appalled at the increase in banned books. Now I am aware that as congregational librarians we are expected to be selective in the books we choose for our particular denomination and o
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Opportunity to Get Books, DVDs, and Supplies in Middle Tennessee
Tori Wright, Manager of the Brentwood Baptist Church Resource Room located in Brentwood, TN is in the process of transitioning the library to a Family Resource Room stemming from church staff request. In order to do that, they are downsizing their co
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Book Recommendations for Ages 12-16 and Early Readers?
Dear Church Libraries Network,
I am currently in the process of updating our book collection for youth aged 12-16. Do you have any current book lists available for this teenage age group?
Additionally, I am looking for recommended book lists for early
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Bible Story Series Books for Kids
Roxy Klassen asks the following:
What are your favorite Bible Story Series books for kids? Such as:
Very Best Bible Stories | 10ofThose US
Tales That Tell the Truth: 15 Volume Set (Pack)
God's Daring Dozen Box Set 1: John Brown, Brian Wright Illus
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Jigsaw Puzzles
From Edie Asbury
Does your library offer jigsaw puzzles to borrow? After visiting a church library that has them, I am thinking about adding a few to our collection but to limit them to only ones with particular spiritual meaning such as ones with ch
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Parenting Resource Center
As we continue with revitalizing our very full library and working to put books in the hands of our church members, we have plans to create a new satellite location in the building where our parents of growing families congregate for Bible study. It
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Easter Books for School-aged Children
Our library has a generous amount of Easter books for both young children and adults, but very little for elementary, middle school, or youth ages. Can you recommend any for these age groups?
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Easter 2026 Display?
Which Easter books are you featuring this time? Feel free to share by posting a photo or list the titles.
This Wednesday, I will be placing these books on our display:
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Publisher discounts? Wish-list for library purchases?
Hello everyone,
I am working to revitalize our church's library and will soon be purchasing a lot of new books to fill our shelves. I was wondering if any of you have ever had any success with asking publishers for a church library discount if you pur
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Mission Trips
In thinking about the summer, we will have multiple teams going to Honduras for mission trips. I would like to build up our small selection of books about missions. As we are reducing the number of holdings in our library and are desiring to have th
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Christian Fiction for men
Looking for recommendations for Christian fiction novels for men.
Thanks!
First Baptist Church, Kingsport, TN
Jonna Bridgeman replied:
All of Charles Martin's books would be good.
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DVD
We have purged our CD collection, but hesitated letting go of all DVDs. We wanted to determine if there was any demand for them.
Not one has been checked out since then!
I'm wondering if other smaller libraries are keeping these, are they being check
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Recommended Books about United States Presidents?
Great day to share titles of books about United States Presidents. What do you have in your church's collection?
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Purging Christian Fiction
Our library has a long wall of shelves packed with Christian novels. We are in the Revitalization stage and are letting go of many holdings in order to have more uncluttered shelves with quality materials. Many of these Christian fiction books are s
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How Millennials and Gen Z Are Driving a Bible Reading Comeback
Have you seen the November 2025 Barna report titled about this comback? Click here to read the report. You will need to click in the blank space following the introduction if you do not see the graphics.
I wonder how many of our churches/Parishes/Sy
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Roxy Klassen wants to know . . .
What review sites do you use to determine if a book should be added to your library?
I've used https://www.alignmyread.com/ for adult books.
And https://christianparentreviews.com/ for kids books.
But they don't hav