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Let’s join the Kansas-Nebraska church librarians in remembering their longtime leader Sue Lindsay. She served as director of the Kansas-Nebraska Church Library Ministry Program for that convention for many years. Her enthusiasm and
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Weeded Books
Ann Lancaster posted a great Collection Development question: How to designate weeded books in a computerized library? Comments are helpful. What would you add to this discussion?
eBooks
Jackie Huffman asked for an update to G
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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
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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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.
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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
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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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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
Our discussion article here includes two conference videos. These two sessions are part of the Alabama Baptist church library ministry conference that took place on April 22 and 29, 2021.
Descriptions:
Concourse: In this webinar, Allison Maynard and
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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
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This week we have a Wednesday Email. Thank you for your patience.
CORRECTION: Church Libraries Making the Shift to Today’s Church Cultures.
One of our faithful members made me aware of a mistake I made regarding one of the Alabama confer
