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The Christy Award Nominees 2021
The finalists were announced September 30. Click here to enjoy the categories and book cover pictures. The winners will be announced October 28 online during the Awards Gala. To explore their website, start
Church Librarians Network Email Blasts (245)
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Another busy week on the CLN!
Kudos to the Creivewood Baptist Church Nashville library team! They had an open house on September 19th to celebrate the 10,000th addition to their collection. This addition is perfect since it is a history of
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We were busy on the CLN during the past week! Note the following links to discussions we started last week.
Duplicates for Church Libraries Recently Hit by Weather Disasters
If you know of a church that would be interested in these duplica
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Linda Draper, one of our CLN members in St. Louis, MO, emailed me a couple of weeks ago suggesting we connect with churches who lost their libraries during Hurricane Ida, Waverly, TN, and other recent weather disasters. We’ve waited unti
Happy Labor Day!
Hope you are having perfect weather for your holiday! Our prayers continue for all of you dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in the south and east as well as the fires in the west.
We have been busy this past week on the CLN
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Hundreds of church libraries are in danger right now due to Hurricane Ida and flooding. May God protect them and give them the resources to rebuild.
Calling Attention to Specific Items (Classification and Cataloging)
We had some response
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Calling Attention to Specific Items (Classification and Cataloging)
We had some responses to Ann Lancaster’s question about featuring a book that might be easily unseen on the shelves. Click here.
Calling Attention to Items that are Rele
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Taking the Collection to Groups (Promotion)
Back in April 2015, Janet Estridge started a discussion by asking for suggestions about an opportunity she had with MOPS. What would you add to the suggestions made at that time about opportuni
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Computer Lab
Ruthe Turner brings up a great point about having computers available for people to use in the library. I realize the option to have a computer for people to use is not an option for most of our church’s libraries due to spa
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In case you traveled last week and did not have a chance to check out all the new replies to these topics, check out these links.
Promotion: Facebook? Instagram? Click here.
Collection Development: Christian Publishers? Click here.
Class
Let’s pick up on Q&A discussions from the past that are relevant today.
Promotion: Facebook? Instagram?
In December 2014, Janet Estridge posted this question about Facebook. Only one person responded. How about today? How did you get started putting
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Books for Elementary and Middle Schoolers? Graphic Novels?
What a great response to Jane Sveska’s question about collection selections for school age children! Let’s stay focused there another week! How about graphic novels for juveniles
Greetings!
Hope you had a great holiday week. Now we face summer wrap up and school starting again. Whew!
Books for Elementary and Middle Schoolers?
What a great response to Jane Sveska’s question about collection selections for school age children!
Happy July 4!
Hope you are having a fun holiday with family and friends. I loved celebrating July 4 with my church family yesterday too!
July 4?
Not too late to post what you did through your church library for July 4th. Click here.
Books for Element
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We are all back to normal with our broadcasts! NING has a great team!
Self-Checkout
Our conversation about self-checkout and related topics continue here!
Facebook Group?
Robbi Imhoff has started setting up the CLN Facebook group, click
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For your awareness, the NING team is working on improving our broadcast system. While many of you got last week’s email, some of us did not. Click here if you missed last week’s email.
Self-Checkout
Lots of responses to Susan Eaton’s pos
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Self-Checkout
Susan Eaton just posted a question on a long list of posts about self-checkout. Great ideas here!
Summer Launch?
Any VBS reports? Share here. Other summer plans? Add to this long list of posts. Be sure to check out Linda Lo
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Biblical Illustrator Index
Many church libraries have copies of the magazine “Biblical Illustrator” available for teachers and church members. One of our members, Linda Adams, asked if we could get the index of all of the Biblical Illust
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Today we remember those in our families and our friends who lost their lives to save and protect our freedom. May God bless those memories.
Catalog Card Offer
Debra McCurry has a new printer, so she no longer needs an unopened package of
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Mary Mardiguian asked me to ask the following questions on the CLN in a recent email. The church library in her church and the church staff are reimagining their church’s library ministry. These questions stem from their reimaging proce
