What company do you purchase most of your books from - one that has the best prices? When purchasing books for a church library, do you pay taxes on your purchases?
Linda Johnson is starting a discussion on how you select your Christian fiction. Only those with a message of salvation through Jesus? Those that mention God/praying/faith? Those that are just clean and a good or inspiring story? We have all of the
'we have our library up and running pretty well right now. Our goal is to open it to the public. Since October is Church Library Month, I was wondering what other church librarians are planning.
I thought an open house or something. Our congregati
Teen fiction and nonfiction anything for teens really. My library has a couple devotonals and a few 70-90 nonfiction that seems good for now so I have something. Only regular kid is mine who is 5 so I want to work on
Lynn Floyd Wright has a question for us to discuss:
How do you justify to your bosses that your church library is necessary? We've got a new pastor (not even 40 yet!) and he wants to put resources into church's digital presence.
We are helping someone who is working on a project. Would those of you who are public librarians or retired public librarians email me at churchlibrariansnetwork@gmail.com?
I was going to recommend The Church Librarians Handbook in a presentation I am doing on "Why Church Libraries?" When I went to get the link on Amazon, a new copy of the paperback is $87.80! Does anyone know where to get it cheaper? That seems like
I need some suggestions for an older ladies Bible Study group. They meet once a week and have been together for over 18 years. The ladies range in age from 60 to 80.
Many in the group are turned off from Bible Studies that are DVD or streamed onli
Now is a great time to share what we are doing with our adult readers. We have had previous discussions but not recently. Jump in and share what you are doing.
Our church library has been in a terrible state for the last 6-7 years. We have about 2000 books and we don't even have a budget until January. We have one bulletin board just outside the room & I would lo
With the passing of the Queen and yesterday’s remembrance of 9/11, do you have books and/or DVDs in your church’s or synagogue's collection related to Queen Elizabeth? 9/11? Would you share the titles?
I appreciate the opportunity to read ideas on this site. My library ministry is re-energized with new ideas! How many church librarian groups are still meeting in person? I appreciate the Pacific No
Does anyone else here put out a library newsletter? What kinds of things do you put in it? We started one last October, which has grown in scope quite a bit and I'm interested to know what others are putting in theirs.
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
