Q&A

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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How can we disciple a tech-addicted generation?

That is the question driving Parents Who Fight. This organization has been helping parents, schools, and churches partner together to protect kids from the influence of technology. My church hosted Jesse and Sarah Siegand for the last 2 Wednesday eve

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Ways To Learn about Sermon Topics A head of Sunday

Our pastor/preacher surprised me yesterday by sharing the sermon topics for yesterday and the next 2 Sundays. He is preaching through the Gospel of Mark this year. We have had books connected to Mark in our main display during these months. But yeste

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Easter Stories to Share?

Any surprises or interesting experiences yesterday as your church celebrated Easter through their library? 

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Connecting Church Mission to Cataloging Categories on Shelving Signs

We have another first! Our non-fiction shelf signage now has our church mission statement key words (Love, Grow, Serve, Go) connected to our Dewey categlories. A win-win for sure with our pastor and church staff. We use Dewey so the signs contain our

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Memory Lane: Share an idea you got from a conference?

In our not too distant history, church library conferences were available frequently in most states. Due to decrease in funding and the increase in travel expenses, a high percentage of those conferences have evaporated. Let's have fun remembering th

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What's New?

What is new in your church’s or synagogue’s library ministry? Hopefully new books, but what about other ways of having something new? I have something new to share but I can’t get my iPhone to send the photos to my email account where I can download

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Library Users Who Are Not Members of Your Church or Synagogue?

A new experience for our Enrichment Center Team. I got an email from a couple who are members of another church in our association. They asked if our church let non-church members use the library. We do, so we met in the library last Friday. We had a

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Let's Talk Story Times

Today, we had our very first preschool storytime in the Enrichment Center! Click here to read our Forest Hills Baptist Church Enrichment Center Journal where I shared today's great experiences!

Many of you have been doing storytimes for years. Would

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Are Paperback Books Going Away?

Yesterday, I heard that publishers are transitioning to hardback books without paperbooks. Have you heard anything about that? I am noticing that hardbacks right now are sometimes almost the same price as the paperbacks. And I also notice new books a

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Graphic Novels for Junior Readers?

Roxy Klassen requests:

We are trying to build a Graphic Novel section for Junior Readers. Does anyone have any good suggestions for Christian Graphic Novels besides these? 
ICorrie Ten Boom 
The Hiding Place: (A Graphic Novel) Ages 8-12, Full Color, Il

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The future of DVDs and Audiobooks

Babs Harris has the following question:

Due to the slow down after Covid and a loss of workers, our library now has a backlog of ordered and paid for DVDs (mostly preschool) to catalog. 
Do we spend the time to enter these into the catalog when so few

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