Q&A

2024 Transition: Serving Ministries in the New Church Year

Now is a great time to contact your age group ministers, women’s ministers, men’s ministers, and other ministers to discuss how the church library can assist their plans for the new ministry year. A common question for all of them involves their disc

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2024 Transitions: Inventory

How do you approach the inventory task? For our growing number of new librarians joining the CLN, share your inventory tips whether you conduct the inventory manually or with software. 

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July 4 Ideas

What did you do this year for your July display and July 4 activities? Photo?

Do you have books related to July 4 that you displayed yesterday? New titles to recommend?

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Fathers Day

After a quick CLN search, I'm finding no discussions about Fathers Day. We do have photos of bulletin boards and displays. What about Fathers Day in our churches today? Have you found current books about fatherhood to recommend to the rest of us? Fro

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Programs to create newsletters?

I'm interested in learning the best program to use for creating quarterly, bimonthly, or monthly newsletters both digital and print? Pros and cons?Thank you for your help!

Sabrina Jaye

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Memorial Day 2024

Blessings to all as we remember our heroes who gave us the freedom we enjoy today. Did you do something through the library to recognize these heroes in your church or beyond?

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Alabama Authors

Barbara Rodgers asks the following:

My church is located in Alabama and I want to create a seperate space to shelve books by Alabama authors. Where can I find a collated list of books by Alabama authors? Of course I am only interested in the titles t

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Summer 2024 Plans?

What are your plans for this summer to engage children, youth, and/or adults in using the library collection? We have LOTS of summer idea posts on the CLN so search for those posts using key words like “summer plans” or “summer reading”.

Bob Haskins

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Shelving Bible-based Materials

Sabrina J has a question about shelving.

Our church library collection of over 12k items was given away (except for reference material) several years ago so the library would close. We have a new much smaller spot as well. Looking back, we see how th

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Crucial Ideas for a New Library

One of our new Church Librarians Network members lives in the Nashville area, Lydia Neeley. She and her pastor are seriously talking about a vision for revitalizing the library in their church. She came to our Middle Tennessee librarians gathering on

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Building a Library with Zero Budget

During the April 20, 2024 Middle Tennessee Church Librarians Ministry Network gathering, we shared lots of great ideas for funding sources. What do you suggest?

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Promotion Ideas to Get More Library Users?

During the middle Tennessee Church Librarians Network gathering on April 20, 2024 we shared all kinds of ideas with each other. What are you doing to attract new users?

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Brochures and Flyers

We have not had a discussion about promotional flyers nor policy brochures in quite a while. Let's catch up with what we have put together in recent years.

I'll start this discussion with our new tri-fold brochure/flyer. We will duplicate it this Wed

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Spring Break?

Some of you have already had spring break while some of us are having it this week, and others the week before Easter. Please share your church’s library activities for kids and their families during spring break this year. 

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Youth Resource Recommendation?

Nancy Martin is searching for book about Daniel that is suitable for youth. Any recommendations?

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Church Directories

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What About Younger Preschoolers Today?

While looking for books about Annie Armstrong on WMU.com, I discovered a great article about today's younger preschoolers. While the article is written for teachers, I think we can find all kinds of implications for church librarians. Let’s share our

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Shelving Books in a Series for Children

How are books such as the I Can Read Series : Daniel and the Lion's Den , Jesus is Born , Faith Gets Us Through catalogued for shelving. It seems to me that being placed together  would be easier for children to find. I've been out of this a while so

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Collection Development: Chapter History Books for 3-5 Graders

We have biography series but only a few history books for 3-5 graders. Any recommendations? I have a very frustrated 5th grade girl waiting for us to meet her interests! HELP!

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Collection Development: Devotional Books for Children

People ask us for recommendations for devotionals even though we may not include devotional books in the collection because people would check them out for a year.

What do you recommend they purchase for devotional books for children that have devot

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