I am interested to know what you all are doing for barcoding books for automation. Are you buying barcodes from a vendor or printing them yourself?What I have started doing is generating (one by one) a barcode from a free online generator and then pl
Read more…Recently I ordered 6 books about different animals because they seemed to have good photos/pictures. When I read them, one had info that could be interpreted to refer to evolution and 2 of them had photos of animals mating.
So I showed them to about
Read more…It was my understanding that a lending library in the church should not charge a fee to check out VCs or DVDs. I would like to hear what others are doing and if this is legal.
Read more…Melissa Moak just emailed me this question for someone. How would you answer that question?
I just received a question from a library friend who is trying to reorganize past years of records – her question was: “what kind of circulation and finance records do you keep and for how long? And how do you store them – in files, notebooks, or wha
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I'm looking for a web-based management system and came across these "endorsed" systems.
Read more…Do you have pictures of your library? Pictures or videos of your library activities such as a book club this summer or VBS? We would love to see them! Just click on Photos or Videos and follow the prompts.
Read more…Does anybody have a place to send or give used Bible Studies once they are past the date? I have searched for a good place to recycle these with the important info they hold without much luck at all. If you do, please let me know. I have collected
Read more…I'm looking of suggestions of Christin authors with ties to Missouri. Any ideas?
Read more…I've have a lot of new audio books to prepare for our library. The question is about those with multiple cds do give each cd a barcode or just give one barcode to the whole set. You input would be appreciated.
Sammie Smith
This book was mentioned in the Church Library section of the Lifeway website. What is this book and where can it be obtained? I am considering becoming the director of our Media Center and am looking for information on the day-to-day operation of a c
Read more…Our little library is planning a tribute for our older ladies, many of whom are widows. We are thinking along the lines of a "Spa Day" with a Tea, some sort of short program, etc. Anyone out there got any more suggestions, or ideas on how to perfec
Read more…I am a church librarian in Indianapolis writing an article about church libraries for a national Christian publication. I would love to hear from other librarians about what is the purpose or mission of your church library. Please include the name of
Read more…I received an email from a minister of education in GA who is working with his team to move their library to a new location. They are using this move to do some weeding. What would you recommend to him about determining what to remove from the collec
Read more…We are not offering children's books printed before 1986 at our public library's annual Friends of the Library fundraising sale this year. How will this law affect the books that can be checked out at church and public libraries? If we have to take t
Read more…Our library is planning a grand re-opening sometime in the fall of 2011. I would like to put together a promotional gift bag, one for the adults and one for the kids, which includes information on our library as well as some freebies. Currently, we
Read more…I'm considering removing all VHS from the library. Interested in knowing what other churches are doing?
Read more…I am automating my church library collection and trying to make the classifications more accurate as I go. My questions concern children's Bible story picture books. I know that generally, OT & NT Bible stories retold go under 220.95, OT Bible stor
Read more…I have not developed any Policies. I would like a copy of other church libraries policies about using the Internet. I have a young man who has been doing "My Space" on the Library computer. I would hope that it would be used for research, etc, not so
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