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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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
Read more…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
Read more…My church is the location of Southeastern Baptist Seminary student cohorts. This is the third year, 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
Read more…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?
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…Let's consider what we have posted in recent years for July 4. I found pictures of displays and points of interest. Click here:
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What are you creating for your church this year?
Read more…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.
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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.
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Read more…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.
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…Any surprises or interesting experiences yesterday as your church celebrated Easter through their library?
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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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