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Sunday Morning Group Meets in Church Library?
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
Read more…Are you in need of ideas for something?
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
Read more…Library Emails
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?
- What do you include in
Webinar Discussion: Programming Activities
Let's start a discussion stemming from the Programming Ideas Webinar featuring Bev League recorded by the Alabama Baptist church libraries.
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Read more…Church Websites and OPACs
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.
Thanks!
Read more…Making Disciples Webinar: Why and How Do Church Libraries Participate in Building Community?
See attached Participant Guide to the March 30 webinar by Alabama Baptist Convention. Click here.
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Principle 1: Discipleship Requires Proximity
During the webinar, Ken Braddy made highlighted these points related
Read more…size of your collection?
I wish those that responded with links to catalog would include size of libary collection
Read more…Disciple Making Webinar: How can church libraries reach out to the 63% of adults who are in in groups in their churches?
See attached Participant Guide to the March 30 webinar by Alabama Baptist Convention. Click here.
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Principle 2: Disciples are made in groups
- Disciples need to be involved in more than preaching and listening. Tha
Making Disciples Webinar: What are ways church libraries can assist the groups in building relationships?
See attached Participant Guide to the March 30 webinar by Alabama Baptist Convention. Click here.
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Principle 2: Disciples are made in groups
Our churches have lots of groups of all kinds.
You will find Principle
Read more…Making Disciples Webinar: What role can our church libraries play in the lives of today's children?
See attached Participant Guide to the March 30 webinar by Alabama Baptist Convention. Click here.
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Principle 2: Disciples are made in groups
Ken including a point about groups in regard to children. Trends say chi
Read more…Disciple Making Webinar: Where do you see church libraries providing support and services to other ministries of our churches?
See attached Participant Guide to the March 30 webinar by Alabama Baptist Convention. Click here.
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Principle 3: Disciples are made over time.
Take a look at another webinar that Ken presented to pastors and church
Read more…Disciple Making Webinar: What do church libraries offer to support Bible and Christian literature reading?
See attached Participant Guide to the March 30 webinar by Alabama Baptist Convention. Click here.
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Principle 4: Growing Disciples Read the Bible and Christian literature daily.
Ken pointed out 3 predictors of spi
Read more…Making Disciples Webinar: What are we doing or could be doing to inspire and assist disciples of Jesus along the growth markers used by our churches?
See attached Participant Guide to the March 30 webinar by Alabama Baptist Convention. Click here.
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Principle 5: Disciples Grow
Ken highlighted the following during his webinar about spiritual growth.
- Lifeway Re
Library Web Page - do you have one?
We are finally ready to add a library web page(s) to our church's website. If your library has a web page, please share your URL so I can view it for ideas. Thanks!
Read more…Inventory
In response to CLN's discussion starter on INVENTORY (Monday Mailout: February 21, 2022), I wanted to respond with what some may find as a different approach to Inventory.
The goal of an Inventory is to KNOW where every Item in our library is, either
Read more…Church Library Mission Statement
Yolanda Martinez is pondering if her church's library should have a mission statement? She asks us the following: Do church librarians have mission statements that they use?
Read more…EBOOKS may now be affordable
For those of you who have been discouraged about the high cost of EBOOKS service, here may be some GOOD NEWS!
OverDrive® (the ebook service vendor for my church and most churches I know of) has recently made some "deals" with church libraries that are
Read more…How to inspire children to read
We have an area in our library for children's/teen books, but no one is checking them out. What have you done to attract and keep young readers?
Read more…Clean Fiction Winter 2021
Nancy Wilson emailed me a book she just discovered: Clean Fiction Magazine, Winter Edition 2021. Neither of us are familiar with it.
Click here to link to their website. They sell it through Amazon: Clean Fiction Magazine, Winter Edition 2021. A hel
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