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
Read more…Someone donated a sermon series (not from our church) that does not have an ISBN so I have not had any luck with World Cat. I looked up sermons and I found two possible ones 264 and 252. The title is Life Together by Jack Graham.
Read more…I have a cd that was produce by our media department. It is on the history of our church. How do I classify that? I've tried using the classification manual, but I am more than a little bit lost.
Read more…I am in desperate need of help.
Our library is under the umbrella of our church's Education Committee. This committee has put a halt to purchasing books until a "process" is developed in which books are approved for purchase.
With the exception
Read more…Greetings.
I am interested in how others catalog children's books. We separate our books as follows...
P-Preschool
E-Elementary
S-Student
C-College
It seems to me that there is too much overlap between these categories. Our children's ministr
Read more…Has anyone purchased a kit containing a thumb drive or flash drive. I have recently acquired one with a Bible study kit and was wondering how to process it? Anyone have any suggestions? How do I check it out to patrons?
Carol
Read more…Our library has a complete set (27 books) of the Guidepost series, "Mysteries of Sparrow Island." Is anyone familiar with this series, and does anyone have any idea of the appropriate age group for this series? Seems a little elementary for adults,
Read more…I am trying to put the books in the system that are not currently in the system (when we switched systems many books didn't transfer over). Currently our books on eating disorders were cataloged under 136, which is a number that is no longer used, bu
Read more…I been withdrawing cassette tapes and hope to get rid of all of them. Our library director would like to keep some, especially some of our services. We have lots of our services on cassette that have not been cataloged -- I'm not concerned with those
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