Q&A

Reading Time for Children

Also, do many churches have reading time for children? If so, what time of the week and how did you develop it? Would you consider it a ministry of the church or just an offering to parents to encourage reading? 

Denise Roberts

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Book Clubs

Do many people have book clubs in their church, and if so, how is it done, and how has it been received? 

Denise Roberts

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Purging Books Today

How do librarians purge books? I know this has been discussed before, but as newer books are becoming increasingly "edgy," should we be keeping some of the older "tried & true" and if so, what criteria could we use to make our decisions? 

Denise Robe

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Church Librarians Network Q&A Topics

While we are collaborating on training events, let’s also focus on improving your CLN experience. Share with us discussion questions that interest you.

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Shifts in Library Training Models

We have several CLN members who are on conference teams who plan training events for librarians. One complaint that these planners often hear is “I’ve already heard him or her speak so I don’t need to go to that session.” OR “I want to experience som

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5 Shifts for Our Churches in 2026

Recently I viewed a very interesting webinar that intrigued my thoughts about 2026.

Carey Nieuwhof is a Canadian pastor and a leadership expert known for helping church leaders thrive in a rapidly changing world. Recently, he did a free webinar title

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Building a Different World?

As I prepared for the Tennessee Library Conference that took place this past Saturday, I collected random quotes to share in specific sessions.

For my first session, I planned to use the following quote as a conclusion to our focus on Revitalizing o

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Library Desk Books for Today's Libraries

 

We have discussed the Desk Book in the past. Click here to find some ideas for organizing and what to include in a Desk Book. This relates to the idea of being prepared when someone suddenly steps away from the library team. The free book Church Li

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Preteen, Middle School, and/or High School Book Clubs During the School Year?

We are familiar with book clubs/challenges during the summer. How about during the school year? Anyone have experience with this approach during the school year?

During this summer we had 2 reading group sessions for preteens. Sort of like test runs

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Libraries that Serve Seminary Cohorts that Meet in the Building

My church is the location of Southeastern Baptist Seminary student cohorts. For the first time, the leader of these cohorts asked the Enrichment Center Team to include the textbooks for a course that starts August 18. He asked us to add 16 books for

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Starting the School Year 2025

Did you hear the school bus this morning. School started where I live so I heard it this morning. What have you done this year to welcome the new school year with the kids? 

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How do you welcome someone who starts using your church or synagogue's library?

Yesterday, I had the joy of welcoming someone to our Enrichment Center library. She just starting coming to our church. What a joy to see her face light up as I introduced her to our library, two of our team members who were shelving, and users who w

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Summer 2025 Reading Challenges

Many of us are starting to see the end of summer coming soon. Do you have a reading challenge this summer? How about a report on what is happening with the reading challenge?

We already have lots of reading change reports from past years on the Churc

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What’s Next? Independence Day! Any special ideas for the library this year?

Let's consider what we have posted in recent years for July 4. I found pictures of displays and points of interest. Click here:

Search Results - July 4 - Church Librarians Network

What are you creating for your church this year?

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2025 Vacation Bible School and Other Summer Library Plans?

What will your church’s library be doing during VBS? Any other summer plans?

Take a look at ideas posted in previous years. Click here.

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What Content or Topics Would Cause You to Register for a Library Conference?

Due to increased participant travel expenses and the loss of funding by those entities that have provided library conferences in the past, the number of conferences in most of our locations are greatly reduced or nonexistent these days. BTW, the same

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Ways to Engage Preteens on the Library Team

Summer is here! School is out!

We have two new homeschool families who are very excited about the Enrichment Center.These preteens (4-7 graders but churches varying in grouping) want to help this summer since their families will not be traveling as

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Summer 2025 Reading Plans?

By now, many of us have our summer library plans ready to launch. Let's share our plans with each other for this year. Photos? If you plan to take pictures of children, be sure to get permission from their parents for you to share the photos on the C

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E-Book Articles and Discussions for Today

In February 2025, Glenn McKowen updated his three eBook articles for us. You will find links here to these 3 articles for us to continue these discussions.

E-books: the Ministry

E-books: the Process

E-books: the Cost

 Jump in with your questions and

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Mother's Day 2025?

We have not had much attention on mothers since 2016. Any updates since then on calling attention to mothers on Mother's Day? New books to recommend for mothers today? If you did a display, click here. Or post the photo here. 

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