As we all know, most of our Church Libraries are operating with little or no money at all to buy books, supplies, etc.
I'm wondering, how do you all get free books? We get donations but most of what we get we already have or can't use in a church lib
Read more…Hello Everyone! I joined the network this week and am thoroughly enjoying reading through the questions and posts. I have some experience with small church libraries - restarting them after first culling them, then adding the Dewey system and finally
Read more…STEM, STEAM and Maker Spaces are popping up in libraries all over my town. I wonder if there are church libraries that have these programs? I see the potential of tweaking and shaping these programs to incorporate biblical truths, team building, and
Read more…How do you use Atrium to enhance other ministries. For instance our shut ins can go on line and order books that our visitation team will deliver. I am looking for ideas so that we can justify the cost of the program. For those of you that have ha
Read more…Our library has MANY great kits for group study. Some are not that old. However, they use VHS tapes rather than DVD's. Our younger patrons won't even consider them (even though we have a VHS player they can use). Most of the kits cost $150+. No
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About me
I am new to this group. I have 40+ years library technician experience in an academic library (retired spring 2017)and 40 yrs as a solo church librarian in another congregation. Three years ago, my family changed parishes.
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Our pastor has emailed asking for help with a family. He is looking for a good family devotional book. The kids range from preschool to teens. The parents are looking for something that they can have daily devotions and work on reading the bible t
Read more…Is there an award given for excellence in Christian writing for children? I'm familiar with the Christy awards for Christian adult fiction, but wondered whether there was any recognition for excellence in books for kids (fiction or nonfiction). The
Read more…I'm looking for the DVDs that go with a particular Bible Study that a group in our church wants to do. When your churches buy that sort of material, do you normally keep in cataloged in your library or have another area in the church where they are
Read more…We have a number of members who have materials overdue as far back as 2015. We've sent multiple overdue notices requesting the return of the materials and the requests have been ignored for the most part. Some are children with as many as 8-10 items
Read more…What a great conversation about evangelism and disciple making!! Through that conversation, we discovered an interest in collection policies. How did your church develop a collection policy for the church library? Would you share your policy? You do
Read more…I really need to update some parts of our collection and make it more diverse. As part of that effort, I thought I would ask this group about good books for a church library that would tie into Black History Month. I am thinking about getting the “Ey
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Our library has been on a rocky road for a while. However, with our new pastor, things have certainly improved.
That being said, recently I was told that since library books don't save souls, and that's what church is really about,
Read more…I have two questions.The first has to do with children in the lower grades reading 8/9 grade level books. The young girl read the whole Cul-de-sac Kids books in two days. Her brother read the Prince Warroirs series in 3 weeks. So many of the teen boo
Read more…Yesterday, I signed up for an amazon kindle account- I have two Kindle touch e-readers (they work even if they are not cutting edge or backlit).
I have one on which I will put out of print, cheap theology titles, and one that I will put fiction
Read more…I been withdrawing cassette tapes and hope to get rid of all of them. Our library director would like to keep some, especially some of our services. We have lots of our services on cassette that have not been cataloged -- I'm not concerned with those
Read more…Hello! My name is Wanda Lawrence. I have just released my first children's book. "Who's Right? What's Right?" It is a book explaining the 3rd commandment in an easy to understand method.
A young girl's Sunday School class is learning the ten command
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This is an area in which many, if not most, of us struggle. Biographies for teenagers/students/young adults. Are there any good biographies that would interest this age group? Thanks so much. Martha
Read more…You know when you get a dusty box of books donated, and you're afraid to put your hand inside and pull anything out? What's the most unique thing anyone has ever donated to your church library?
I wrote a blog post about mine. It was a very inapprop
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