Our church library has been in a terrible state for the last 6-7 years. We have about 2000 books and we don't even have a budget until January. We have one bulletin board just outside the room & I would lo
With the passing of the Queen and yesterday’s remembrance of 9/11, do you have books and/or DVDs in your church’s or synagogue's collection related to Queen Elizabeth? 9/11? Would you share the titles?
I appreciate the opportunity to read ideas on this site. My library ministry is re-energized with new ideas! How many church librarian groups are still meeting in person? I appreciate the Pacific No
Does anyone else here put out a library newsletter? What kinds of things do you put in it? We started one last October, which has grown in scope quite a bit and I'm interested to know what others are putting in theirs.
Yesterday, one of the men who drops by the Enrichment Center from time to time, spent some time browsing the shelves. I asked him again what types of books he reads. In our conversation, he suggested we find a way to share the following information:
And here are a few bookmarks for a couple of the Adult Fiction Reading Challenges we have done in the past. These are much different than the spiritual growth ones I posted, in that they only run for 7 weeks and we actually give out prizes! The spir
A pastor has recently retired and has been allocated a space to house his library. I have been asked to arrange it so that it is useful to our large pastoral staff and those who are attending seminary. I started by sorting the collection, and then
Last Wednesday evening (August 10), we had our annual Enrichment Center Team planning session which all feeds into our Budget preparations. We have a couple of new team members so that was fun getting to know each other. We reviewed our Atriuum stati
Recently, somewhere on this website, I saw an old question from several people asking what our Adult Reading Challenge bookmarks look like and what kinds of assignments we have on them. So I dug some out of a folder and took a few pictures to give
I realize that my church has a lot of children in the nursery and preschool. Probably more than we have in the 12 grades. Many of the books in our youth fiction section were purchased in the 70's. I need to update the youth section before all these
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?
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
The library of FBC Griffin, GA has a huge archive of sermon audio and VHS tapes and DVDs, with more recent ones stored online with Vimeo at this point. We are in the investigation process of how to best convert all of these items to MP4 format and h
Sherall Cornwell asked me to ask you this question?
We are remodeling and need to purchase a book drop chute. The Library Store has the perfect one, but waaaay over our budget. What are y’all using? Right now, we have a paper box outside our door,
