How do you schedule and train team members to assist users on Sundays and weekdays? Same people each Sunday? Monthly rotation? Other?
Read more…We have not grappled with the Circulation Desk needs lately. How do you coordinate the Circulation Desk needs on Sundays and weekdays?
Read more…In addition to budget planning, many of us are in churches that are having “Promotion Day” this Sunday. Then the new weekday schedule begins at some point during the next two to three weeks. Does this season impact your church’s library? Is this seas
Read more…I realize that my church has a lot of children in the nursery and preschool. Probably more than we have in the 12 grades. Many of the books in our youth fiction section were purchased in the 70's. I need to update the youth section before all these
Read more…Most of my collection goes from pictures books to rather lenghty chapter books. I need some suggestions of titles for children that are trying to move from picture books to chapter books. I have a few like Squirelly Squirels, but not many.
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Church Library Ministry is well known among other ministries for the strong history of a variety of training events through the years. While many ministries have given up on providing training for church leaders due to lack of funding, librarians hav
Read more…I just had my first email question about creating a budget for the new year. Churches vary on budget seasons so some of us are going to be receiving forms to fill out with deadlines in the next few weeks. Others won't have to do such for a few more w
Read more…Debbie, I would also like to receive your newsletters: jadams@olivebaptist.org Thank you!
Read more…What are some of the disclaimers that you put in various books or even on DVD's? A friend's family was watching a new Pilgrim's Progress DVD and her 8 year old son was a little afraid. I'm also thinking of the "Luther" movie that briefly shows some
Read more…Hi!
Can anyone recommend any Christian homeschool resources that are more recent than 1999? :)
Thanks!
Read more…Lee Smith and his Virginia Church Library Association is considering a list of books to recommend to new church libraries. Back in the 40s, The Sunday School Board church library specialist put together an annual huge list of book titles for all chur
Read more…Well, in the 7 1/2 years that I've been librarian we haven't needed posted library rules. However, becuase of an incident that happened today, my boss wants me to come up with a list of rules. Before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a list that
Read more…Email from Julianna Baucant:
Our church librarian, Nettie K. passed an article around for all library volunteers to read. The article was titled, 'Important Relationships: Church Librarians and Children.' It changed my perspective on things. The auth
Read more…Bev Colquett has a situation that many of us deal with often.
Read more…Weeding - Someone recently donated 4 boxes of books to the church library. Many of them deal with marriage, child rearing, etc. but are already 12-15 years old. Are there guideline
What are you doing for Mothers in your church this Sunday? Do you have books in your collection for mothers?
Read more…Last year, we moved to using Atriuum/Book Systems for our church library. In the past we used a computer system but still used book pockets and cards as well. We have hundreds (maybe a thousand each) of library book pockets (2 styles) and cards (2 c
Read more…I have been asked to update our policy on receiving donations. Would you please post a question to ask for examples of receiving gifts of books and media to the media library? Our policy has not been updated in several years and needs to be more sp
Read more…Any ideas on how to organize children's books (age 0-2nd grade)? By suthor, title, age,etc.
Barbara Brown
Read more…Karen Pippenger asks an interesting questions for us to consider:
Has anyone here organized their fiction by genres? Just wondering, and if you have, what categories did you use? Tell me about how you did it and how long it took, how did you mark the
Read more…Let's give some thought and reflection on our role when crises hit our cities, communities, and church families?
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