The breakout session facilitators are collaborating on what they will do during the North Alabama Church Library Conference on November 2. The faclitators are Allison Maynard, Bev League, Carolyn Walker, Marty Woodall, and Morlee Maynard. Patty Easte
Our library team has been conducting inventory of our library. None of us are very familiar with Concourse and the last time inventory was done was before Covid. We have completed the nonfiction, fiction, and DVD items but still have the children's i
How do you approach the inventory task? For our growing number of new librarians joining the CLN, share your inventory tips whether you conduct the inventory manually or with software.
One of our members is searching for a list of recommended books for new believers. If each of us replies with one or two recommendations, we will all see a minimum of 2000 recommendations. We often do not participate in these listings because we don'
The start of a new church year is a great time to initiate or strengthen relationships with church staff ministers and pastors. How are you approaching that this year? Let’s share our stories.
Please remember that these are the surveys that I had access to once they were returned, due to circumstances with people involved. I however wanted to share what I could in hopes that it may help someone here.
We have not grappled with eBooks in awhile. The pastor of one of our new members wants eBooks in the collection. Those of you who have experience with having eBooks in your church’s collection: would you share your recommendations as well as experien
Georgina Businaro recently put together a partical list of books her church's library provides for middle schoolers. Every church library is unique so keep in mind that each of us must use our selection policy to determine what we add to the collecti
We have a new member who is revitalizing a church library. She wants to know what you use as a filing system for your needs. Do you use administration, collection development, promotion, and cataloging as the main categories with sub-categories? Or a
Now is a great time to contact your age group ministers, women’s ministers, men’s ministers, and other ministers to discuss how the church library can assist their plans for the new ministry year. A common question for all of them involves their disc
For many of our church or synagogue families, the Finance Committee has started the process to prepare the budget for the next year. Of course, many other churches start their budget process during other months. Let’s discuss best practices for prepa
I'm interested in learning the best program to use for creating quarterly, bimonthly, or monthly newsletters both digital and print? Pros and cons?Thank you for your help!
What are your plans for this summer to engage children, youth, and/or adults in using the library collection? We have LOTS of summer idea posts on the CLN so search for those posts using key words like “summer plans” or “summer reading”.
After a quick CLN search, I'm finding no discussions about Fathers Day. We do have photos of bulletin boards and displays. What about Fathers Day in our churches today? Have you found current books about fatherhood to recommend to the rest of us? Fro
I had a great conversation with my pastor today about the Library and its use. We are a struggling library that does not have much use at all due to various factors.
He suggested that we have some sort of Survey/ Questionnaire for our Parents and Su
I am compiling a list of Christian fiction that does not have a romantic theme (based on requests by patrons). I have googled this topic and have come up with some titles. Could some of you "eager beavers" tell me your top 3 titles without romantic c
