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VERTICAL FILE

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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weeding

Hello All, 


I am new to this group so I am sorry if this is a topic you have already discussed...

We have a small library with a lot of books and in order to have room to add books to our library I am trying to weed out the books that haven't been read

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Automation: Extras?

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

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Middle School Age Boys

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

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Book classification

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

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Book Return Ideas, Please

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

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Card Catalog

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

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Bibles for autistic children

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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Library Conferences

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

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Need Help Getting Started!

After several months of preperation, we have finally opened our new library in our small, country church. I am the librarian and I need any suggestions on expanding the ministry opportunities for our library. I have a few children who participate but

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