How are other librarians entering the series names in the Mitford books by Jan Karon? With the new one on it's way, I started looking on all the inconsistent ways I had entered the series. Some Mitford, some with the number of the book in the serie
Read more…We have a number of members who have materials overdue as far back as 2015. We've sent multiple overdue notices requesting the return of the materials and the requests have been ignored for the most part. Some are children with as many as 8-10 items
Read more…We are finally getting Webopac set up- it has it's own server, and will be updated manually. I've waited a long, long time. Anyway, it will be available off of the church app, and the website do in order to make it look good, I should use HTML. I
Read more…We're looking at online resources for our library. Has anyone used RightNow Media or DevoHub? I'd be interested in hearing your comments.
Merry Christmas to all.
Martha
Read more…Hello Everyone! I joined the network this week and am thoroughly enjoying reading through the questions and posts. I have some experience with small church libraries - restarting them after first culling them, then adding the Dewey system and finally
Read more…I have 2 very willing and smart young people that I want to train to be shelvers. I'm looking for training materials on their level. There are some through The Library Store, but I'm not sure it's enough. Never really systematically done this.
Read more…Yesterday, I signed up for an amazon kindle account- I have two Kindle touch e-readers (they work even if they are not cutting edge or backlit).
I have one on which I will put out of print, cheap theology titles, and one that I will put fiction
Read more…You know when you get a dusty box of books donated, and you're afraid to put your hand inside and pull anything out? What's the most unique thing anyone has ever donated to your church library?
I wrote a blog post about mine. It was a very inapprop
Read more…We have been given a lot of books on cd.
How do you keep them together.
There are anywhere from 1 cd per book up to 8 cd's per book.
Thanks for helping me with this.
Read more…We have several books written by Joyce Landorf Heatherly. Joyce Landorf is the author on some of the older books though her name is now Heatherly. Do I use Hea for all of her books or use the name on the book?
Read more…Hi everyone,
About me
I am new to this group. I have 40+ years library technician experience in an academic library (retired spring 2017)and 40 yrs as a solo church librarian in another congregation. Three years ago, my family changed parishes.
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Last year our church was given a very large gift to benefit our library. Our library board elected to move the library to the main floor to make it more visible and to increase circulation. Now I need your expert help. How do you figure out how mu
Read more…How do you use Atrium to enhance other ministries. For instance our shut ins can go on line and order books that our visitation team will deliver. I am looking for ideas so that we can justify the cost of the program. For those of you that have ha
Read more…I have several patrons who just don't return books in a timely manner or at all. The library operates on a self-check out method because it's always open and I'm not always there. I send overdue emails and make personal contact. There is a card that
Read more…Good morning, fellow librarians!!
I have volunteered to help our church library which is in dire need of update.
Unfortunately, the librarian in charge has been there for quite some time and
simply refuses to consider updating to any computerized s
Read more…I have recently accepted the librarian position in a small church library. I am in the process of getting the call numbers on the spines of the books. I am a retired teacher with no official library training. I have many questions and this site has a
Read more…I have two questions.The first has to do with children in the lower grades reading 8/9 grade level books. The young girl read the whole Cul-de-sac Kids books in two days. Her brother read the Prince Warroirs series in 3 weeks. So many of the teen boo
Read more…Hello everyone
I'm the library ministry leader at a church of ~2-300 people in Sydney Australia, but I have zero training in the area - aside from experience as a library desk worker at high school and university. And a love of books :) Our church
Read more…I have a few kits - DVD/Leader books & so on that need to be contained. The question is what & from where. I was looking at Brodart supplies but can't yet find what I need.
Our Beth Moore series come in nice boxes. Do you use boxes or some kind o
Read more…Our pastor has emailed asking for help with a family. He is looking for a good family devotional book. The kids range from preschool to teens. The parents are looking for something that they can have daily devotions and work on reading the bible t
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