Just had a librarian email me the following. I told her I would ask you all for input. Also be aware of her experience with the fake email in case you get such!
I just received a phishing scam email regarding copyright infringement
that truly scared m
When I started in the library, I focused on the young children first because if you can get them you will get their parents. I also began building up the fiction section because that is where a lot of adults go first. I haven't neglected the other pa
Read more…Anybody have active vertical files? If so, how do you catalog them (especially with Concourse)? Are individual items cataloged? If not, how do they circulate?
I made one entry just to see how it looked. I entered the title as
Abortion : see vertical fi
I was asked about the above. Is there any on the horizon for the above?Annie Stewart
Read more…I am brand new to the church library world. Our building is currently under construction. As I try to order supplies online, I have looked for 'ratings' or 'top sellers,' but the websites don't have them. I am interested to know about bar code lab
Read more…When we first started our library, we didn't have very many children's books, so they were lumped all together. Now that we have grown, I am ready to catalog them correctly. I also have a section for youth. I understand the C classification for f
Read more…I have a question about cataloguing this book. The setting is a fictional church in New England. The author, Gordon MacDonald, says that he and his wife are the only real people in the bookl. In my mind that makes it a work of fiction. However, the L
Read more…I have been told that the location of our church library is in a prime location. Church leaders would like to use the space for a welcome center. It has been suggested that we establish satellite libraries in different areas of our church, i.e. pres
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Do you have any info on the cost of attending the Ridgecrest training event? I understand from Bev League that it has a trainers' track and we want to put it in our budget to send one person. I need budget figures for lodging and registration
I would like to know what are some resources on appropriate library lighting.
Read more…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
Read more…http://www.cslainfo.org/page.php?pagecode=libsoft
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?
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