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.
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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
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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
Read more…I really need to update some parts of our collection and make it more diverse. As part of that effort, I thought I would ask this group about good books for a church library that would tie into Black History Month. I am thinking about getting the “Ey
Read more…Hey girls and boys....can anyone recommend or direct me to an app or website which allows one to type in a book title for classification?
Our church is small and so is our library so I am not using Dewey but rather a handful of relevant church categ
I have a quick nuts and bolts question. I am about to buy some book covers, for hardbacks, and I am wondering how many of you buy the individual covers and how many buy the 8 or 9 or 12 inch rolls. The advantage to the individual covers, of course is
Read more…I recently moved to Plainfield, Illinois. I was wondering if there was a library near me that could use a cataloger and help with other library projects? I have several years of experience in public, church and school libraries.
Read more…Although I have worked in libraries as a volunteer, my degree is actually in teaching so I still have a lot to learn about cataloging for the Parish Library. I use World Cat a lot to get call numbers but a lot of the times those are Library of Congre
Read more…I have been given $100,00 in honor of my library helper. I'm looking for suggestions for nice current books or other material that I could buy in his honor. He is a Sunday School teacher, so Bible study materials would be good, but I don't want to bu
Read more…One of our church members checked out a book. It clearly shows that it was checked out under her name.
When we checked it back in, it said it wasn't checked out.
We pulled up her name and there it was! Still checked out under her name.
I even checked
Read more…How do you code in a pre-sequel to a series? Usually series is Dad01, Dad02, etc. Do you put Dad-pre or Dad0.5 or do you know a better way?
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Just got an email from Emily Martin from Park Cities Baptist Church.
Here in Dallas, there are a number of organizations that have galvanized their constituency to read one common book. For example, SMU Reads, or Richardson Reads. I think Chicago h
Read more…Do you have a good cost-efficient resource for ordering books for your library? Do you order pre-cataloged books?
thanks for input!
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Where would I purchase the latest copy of the 200 Religion Classification Guide?
Read more…Hello everyone:I have a question about classifying fiction. I know the Classificaton System for Church Libraries and the Church Library Ministry Information Service say to use "F," not 813 and 823, like most school and public libraries.Does it really
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