Joan Hoyt sent in a great question!
Years ago, we were taught to store one of each worship guide, magazines etc. Should we still do this? How long do we keep them?
Read more…Summer is almost here! Any plans for your church's library this summer? Children? Youth? Adults?
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How do you process financial donations in memory of someone or in honor of someone? Do you have a policy statement about such? When you remove an item that was added to the collection with donation funds, what do you do about that recognition?
Read more…Who are the Christian fiction authors that you find your people can connect spiritual truth in their stories? Charles Martin, Lisa Wingate, Richard Paul Evans, and Cathy Gohlke come to my mind.
Perhaps as people return a book, we ought to ask them w
Read more…With the high cost of building these days, churches are having to make difficult decisions about space needs when more people come to church on Sundays. How have those of you who have a group meeting in the library during the Bible study time accomod
Read more…We are all working on changes or addtions to our library ministries. You are welcome to reply to this post with your need for specific ideas. Or start a new post by clicking on the red button above on the right side. Actually, starting a new post wil
Read more…Our team is planning to start sending an email once a month to those who want to receive the emails. Help us with how you do such through your library?
Let's start a discussion stemming from the Programming Ideas Webinar featuring Bev League recorded by the Alabama Baptist church libraries.
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Read more…Is there a way to post, in one area of the ning, the links to members' church library websites and OPACs? We are getting ready to set ours up, and I would like to see various examples.
Thanks!
Read more…See attached Participant Guide to the March 30 webinar by Alabama Baptist Convention. Click here.
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Principle 1: Discipleship Requires Proximity
During the webinar, Ken Braddy made highlighted these points related
Read more…Hi All!
I know that pretty much everyone here highly recommends the Dewy Decimal system of cataloguing but I'm looking to hear from church librarians who have small libraries and organize bookstore-style via categories.
Our library is very small
I wish those that responded with links to catalog would include size of libary collection
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Principle 2: Disciples are made in groups
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Principle 2: Disciples are made in groups
Our churches have lots of groups of all kinds.
You will find Principle
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Principle 2: Disciples are made in groups
Ken including a point about groups in regard to children. Trends say chi
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Principle 3: Disciples are made over time.
Take a look at another webinar that Ken presented to pastors and church
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Principle 4: Growing Disciples Read the Bible and Christian literature daily.
Ken pointed out 3 predictors of spi
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Principle 5: Disciples Grow
Ken highlighted the following during his webinar about spiritual growth.
