We have a small library in a new building. We are wanting to build up our religion section;. We have been given a ton of those kinds of books but I'm afraid to put them on the shelf unless we've read them or I'm familiar with the authors. It would be helpful if I could go to online libraries of churches with similar doctrines to ours (Southern Baptist) to see what authors and titles you have. How can I find the online libraries of fellow librarians on this site?
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I thank all of you for directing me to your church library, they are such an inspiration to me. I'm already finding some books that I'd like to buy for our library. I'm so glad that I found this website!
Barbara
Thank you Maxine for your advice, I was absorbing your advice, not grading it, and was glad to hear it. I do understand what you're saying though, I just recently wrote something for our church's anniversary with out letting someone proof it and later found that it had so many mistakes that I had to reprint it.
What you are saying was something that I commented about recently. If the Bible doesn't change I can't see why these types of books should be taken off the shelf just because they are old. Although its a fact in our library that an old discolored book will almost never be checked out. Recently I bought a replacement book for such a book because I thought it should stay on the shelf..
About "Story Telling in a Nutshell," are you the author? I'll be watching for it.
Our collection is available to search online. www.wbcc.net > Grow > Library >Search HERE. You are welcome to look around. If you haven't been doing this long, I think you will find that very quickly you become familiar with certain authors and even publishers. You will begin to see the same publishing houses and often can have a general sense of whether or not the book will be acceptable from that.
You are welcome to go on First Baptist Church Euless on line and click under resources and that will bring up our library and you can look at the things I have in the religiom (200's). We are conservative and we do have some things to show differences in religions.
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Barbara
What you are saying was something that I commented about recently. If the Bible doesn't change I can't see why these types of books should be taken off the shelf just because they are old. Although its a fact in our library that an old discolored book will almost never be checked out. Recently I bought a replacement book for such a book because I thought it should stay on the shelf..
About "Story Telling in a Nutshell," are you the author? I'll be watching for it.
Barbara
Rita Kirkland