Yesterday, one of the men who drops by the Enrichment Center from time to time, spent some time browsing the shelves. I asked him again what types of books he reads. In our conversation, he suggested we find a way to share the following information:
And here are a few bookmarks for a couple of the Adult Fiction Reading Challenges we have done in the past. These are much different than the spiritual growth ones I posted, in that they only run for 7 weeks and we actually give out prizes! The spir
A pastor has recently retired and has been allocated a space to house his library. I have been asked to arrange it so that it is useful to our large pastoral staff and those who are attending seminary. I started by sorting the collection, and then
Last Wednesday evening (August 10), we had our annual Enrichment Center Team planning session which all feeds into our Budget preparations. We have a couple of new team members so that was fun getting to know each other. We reviewed our Atriuum stati
Recently, somewhere on this website, I saw an old question from several people asking what our Adult Reading Challenge bookmarks look like and what kinds of assignments we have on them. So I dug some out of a folder and took a few pictures to give
How do you process financial donations in memory of someone or in honor of someone? Do you have a policy statement about such? When you remove an item that was added to the collection with donation funds, what do you do about that recognition?
Who are the Christian fiction authors that you find your people can connect spiritual truth in their stories? Charles Martin, Lisa Wingate, Richard Paul Evans, and Cathy Gohlke come to my mind.
Perhaps as people return a book, we ought to ask them w
The library of FBC Griffin, GA has a huge archive of sermon audio and VHS tapes and DVDs, with more recent ones stored online with Vimeo at this point. We are in the investigation process of how to best convert all of these items to MP4 format and h
Sherall Cornwell asked me to ask you this question?
We are remodeling and need to purchase a book drop chute. The Library Store has the perfect one, but waaaay over our budget. What are y’all using? Right now, we have a paper box outside our door,
With the high cost of building these days, churches are having to make difficult decisions about space needs when more people come to church on Sundays. How have those of you who have a group meeting in the library during the Bible study time accomod
We are all working on changes or addtions to our library ministries. You are welcome to reply to this post with your need for specific ideas. Or start a new post by clicking on the red button above on the right side. Actually, starting a new post wil
Our team is planning to start sending an email once a month to those who want to receive the emails. Help us with how you do such through your library?
Do you use MailChimp or something like that to manage your mailing list?
Is there a way to post, in one area of the ning, the links to members' church library websites and OPACs? We are getting ready to set ours up, and I would like to see various examples.
