Q&A

Teen Fiction Books?

Jenni Harvey posts this request:

Teen fiction and nonfiction anything for teens really.  My library has a couple devotonals and a few 70-90 nonfiction that seems good for now so I have something. Only regular kid is mine who is 5 so I want to work on

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Purchasing Items for a Library

Renea Skaggs asks the following:

What company do you purchase most of your books from - one that has the best prices?  When purchasing books for a church library, do you pay taxes on your purchases?

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How do you select Christian fiction?

Linda Johnson is starting a discussion on how you select your Christian fiction. Only those with a message of salvation through Jesus?  Those that mention God/praying/faith? Those that are just clean and a good or inspiring story? We have all of the

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Queen Elizabeth and 9/11?

With the passing of the Queen and yesterday’s remembrance of 9/11, do you have books and/or DVDs in your church’s or synagogue's collection related to Queen Elizabeth? 9/11? Would you share the titles? 

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Organizing Fiction by Genre?

Karen Pippenger asks an interesting questions for us to consider:

Has anyone here organized their fiction by genres? Just wondering, and if you have, what categories did you use? Tell me about how you did it and how long it took, how did you mark the

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A Pastor's Reference Library

A pastor has recently retired and has been allocated a space to house his library.  I have been asked to arrange it so that it is useful to our large pastoral staff and those who are attending seminary.  I started by sorting the collection, and then

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Magazines?

Joan Hoyt sent in a great question!

Years ago, we were taught to store one of each worship guide, magazines etc. Should we still do this? How long do we keep them? 

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Youth fiction

I realize that my church has a lot of children in the nursery and preschool. Probably more than we have in the 12 grades.  Many of the books in our youth fiction section were purchased in the 70's. I need to update the youth section before all these

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How can we get our readers away from thinking fiction is only for leisure reading?

Who are the Christian fiction authors that you find your people can connect spiritual truth in their stories? Charles Martin, Lisa Wingate, Richard Paul Evans, and Cathy Gohlke come to my mind. 

Perhaps as people return a book, we ought to ask them w

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What type of server are you using to store MP4 format files?

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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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Clean Fiction Winter 2021

Nancy Wilson emailed me a book she just discovered: Clean Fiction Magazine, Winter Edition 2021. Neither of us are familiar with it. 

Click here to link to their website. They sell it through Amazon: Clean Fiction Magazine, Winter Edition 2021. A hel

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Christmas Books and DVDs?

Are you adding new Christmas related books and DVDs for adults, teens, children, and/or families? Would you share the titles? Many of us are needing to build this part of our collections. Share your titles in the Comments below.

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E-books in the church library

I would be interested to hear from those of you who loan out e-books through your church library.  We have been asked to look into this for our church library and I don't even know where to start.

Please tell me everything I need to know!

 

Thanks!

Debbi

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Fantasy and Futuristic Fiction

Tim Wilson asks the following question.

After a tornado severely damaged our church, we're finally recovering and I'm trying to get my library restocked and reopened. I occasionally have requests for fantasy and futuristic type fiction.  I'm having a

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Reference Books Available

Lou Gardner has reference books available to those of you who need such. Email her for details through the Church Librarians Network email. Note that Lou lives in Cary, North Carolina. 

NOTE: If you have not discovered the CLN email, at the top of th

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Duplicates?

Linda Draper, one of our CLN members in St. Louis, MO, emailed me a couple of weeks ago suggesting we connect with churches who lost their libraries during Hurricane Ida, Waverly, TN, and other recent weather disasters. We’ve waited until today to be

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Book Recommendations for Elementary and Middle Schoolers

Jane Sveska sent us the following question:

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