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Church website
I am looking for ideas on what to include about the library on the churches website. We do not have the level of software to put the catalog online. I have looked at some bigger church websites near me (Dalhart, TX) and either they don't have a lib
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Book Swap
Have any of you done at Book Swap at your church library?
If so, I would like to know how you did it.
Thank You!
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Re Labeling (Classifying) the AV Section.
When I began in the church library non-book items were listed as AV on the spines. Since I had worked at a public library I had wanted to go to DVD, CD, etc. Many not such a good idea because now the CDs come in between the Children's Bio and Ficti
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Paid positions
All,I am prayerfully considering making a proposal to our church leadership that my volunteer position become a part-time paid position.Countless church members are always surprised when I tell them that I am a volunteer.I'm sure the bulk of us are v
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magazines
Would be interested in knowing how you all circulate magazines if at all. We are only doing it on paper now but would like to use Concourse so they would be included in our circulation numbers. I don't want to catalog each issue. Thoughts?
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Classification Help (Kingsbury)
I classified Friends of Christ by Karen Kingsbury following the CIP as 232.9, which seemed OK to me. I got called on this, and shown the introduction where it is clearly shown that this is fiction. Checking Classify.occl.org, I find 948 libraries als
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Classifying - which part of last name to use
When putting a book in the library that is a biography, what letters would you use for 'ten Boom' or 'von Trapp'? Would it be classified 'B ten' or 'B Boo'? Thanks for helping me.
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Update on eBook collections?
The last eBook collection article was from 2012. Are the two consortiums still operating in Texas? Please post any websites so we may view the catalogs. We have a church near us looking into it, and would appreciate an update . . .
Thanks!
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Filemaker Pro 12
Does anyone use (or know of someone who uses) Filemaker Pro 12 for their library catalogue? A church library in our area inherited the program from a former librarian and they are struggling with it.
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Mitford
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
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Shelving DVDs and CDs in an open library
Our library is open to the public at all hours, given that it is in a corner of the "Great Hall" and easily visible as soon as you come into the building. This is great for making all users of the building aware of our library, and we have about 60
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Ministry to Nursing Homes and Church Kindergartens
We are rebooting our church library. I am interested in learning how church media centers minister to nursing homes and church kindergarten/childcare. Thank you.
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Question about acceptable material
I've been reading Dani Pettrey and I'm just not sure about adding her books to our library. Has anyone read anything by her. If so, I would like to know what you think. Is she an acceptable author? Sometimes I think I'm being too prudish so I really
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Read A Like Authors
Can you all recommend websites for Christian Fiction authors who are alike.
For example : If you like Karen Kingsbury you will love ......
Thanks for helping me with this.
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Hosting a reading
I've been considering hosting some type of reading event to draw people in. Such as having our pastor and others read excerpts from books to encourage people to read them. If any of you have ever done that, please share your ideas. Did you have fo
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Weeding out your library
How do you decide which old books to discard to make room for more books.? Our library has been around for many years . I am at loss how to go about this weeding process.
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What can we do through our church libraries to attract young adults back to church as well as to church for the first time?
Based on this Pew Research study results, let's talk about what our church library ministry teams might do to reach young adults who have walked away from church families. What changes do we need to consider? What do we currently do that needs to be
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new classification pdf book available
A Classification System for Church Libraries, updated- is it available for download or in print yet?
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PC Card Catalog Question - writing off books
Hi all.
For those of you that use PC Card Catalog, what do you normally do to write off books? Is it as simple as deleting the records? Or do you somehow "archive" or remove the book from circulation?
I have taken over our library after 3+ years of ne
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