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Church Directories and Church History

Posted by Deborah McDaniel on January 9, 2020 at 12:41 in Classification and Cataloging

Do you shelve copies of your church directories and your church history? What about church photo albums?  If so, under what number, or how do catalog them? Do you shelve maybe as Church History or Reference? And if you do do one of these, do you allow them to be checked out?  Hope not too confusing, lol.

Thanks so much!

 

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  • Pam Grady September 21, 2020 12:11
    My church has a separate location for church history that is maintained by our church historian. I recently stumbled across the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. Their Helps section includes a variety of articles on maintaining church history at: https://sbhla.org/articles.htm It may provide some ideas and assistance for you, regardless of your denomination.
    Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives - Church Archives and Records Articles
    How-to articles related to archives and records management in the local church.
  • Martha Jo Dendinger March 16, 2020 11:28

    Our church history items (directories, histories, bound copies of bulletins, photographs, misc. items) are cataloged under ARCHIVES 288 Fir and do not circulate.  They are available for viewing in the library upon request and are stored in the library office.

  • Susan Kline January 16, 2020 16:12

    I just catalogued a few for our library.  I keep them in a locked cupboard and will lend them out but I am afraid they might disappear if I put them on the shelves.  Once they are gone there is no way to get another.

    Both of mine are 150 and 175 celebration books with church history and pictures.  I have them catalogued under Ref 277.747.   277 is history of religion in North America but not sure what the .247 designation is.

    I looked up some similar church histories in other libraries to see what they were catalogued under.

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