I'm considering automating our library. What software program do you suggest and why? I hope to go to the training workshop in Oct. to investigate Concourse.
Read more…The finance committee is meeting and I need to make a request for financing by letter. Any ideas on wording it?
Read more…I'm afraid my church's young adults (high school age primarily) are slipping through the cracks between the "children's library" and the "adult media center"! Anyone have suggestions for good books/resources for this age group? I'm especially interes
Read more…Silly question. What is a friend?I'm an old guy and just not up with all the new internet terms.
Read more…Does anybody know of a church library that is starting up/over and/or does not have any books. We have been weeding and weeding heavy in preparation for a move in the future. We also have books given to us that we already have in our collection. T
Read more…We will be getting a new library this fall, a little larger than we have now. Where can I go to get help with layouts?
Carol
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We are in the process of remodeling and getting new bookshelves for our library. What kind of singage would you recommend? What subject headings would need to be special ordered?
In this day and age of the internet and so much media information at our fingertips, I just wanted to ask all of you your opinion on maintaining a vertical file in the library. Is it even practical these days? Darlene Earnhardt
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I am currently starting the Library Ministry for our church. I definitely plan to do automation and have researched a couple of companies. I am leaning toward Concourse but was a little overwhelmed when looking at the options. What "extras" on top
Read more…Our collection could use improvement in the area of middle school age children. In recent purchases, we ordered several items geared toward middle school age girls. What are your recommendations for boys in all areas (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Movies, et
Read more…I am putting books on computer and discovered a book on prayers of the Bible with the same call number as a book on plants of the Bible. I checked the Dewey Decimal number in A Classisfication System for Church Libraries and found that 220.8 is used
Read more…I've just begun the task of organizing our church library - can someone (anybody - everybody!) help me with ideas to organize our book and media selections and institute a tracking system?
Thank you!!
Read more…We have a book cart that we take up to the children's area each Sunday morning for children to check out and return books, since their area is no longer on the way to the Church Library. Children have no place to return their books if they are runnin
Read more…Can anyone tell me if you can use a laptop for your card catalog? Our library is in such a small place, that a laptop would really help us conserve space that we need for books and a.v. materials. I have never had a laptop, so didn't know if this wou
Read more…I am a volunteer in our church library and also work at a Lifeway store. Last week I had a customer looking for a Bible for his autistic child that was on a second grade reading level. He said it would have to have lots of pictures and only about a p
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Morlee Maynard has ask me to lead a session on Bible Reference Resources at Equipping Church Librarians for Ministry Conference March 18-20 at LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Center.
I would like your help in preparing for this time.
Have you begun t
Read more…Have you all gone to your state library conferences yet? We had our TBC conference in Cleveland last week. It was GREAT! We came back to our church's ministry with quite a few new ideas. My workers have come in this week saying, "Another church does
Read more…I have been thinking that I would like to have a “Family Library / Reading (listening, viewing) Club” during the Winter. We had a “Children’s SummerReading Club” for the Children this past year, but I thought it would be niceand also another good way
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