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Hope all of you had a great July 4th weekend! Things have been quiet on the CLN for a week or more but today things are getting back to normal. Welcome back!
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We have not grappled with banning books on the CLN. Dot
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Take a look at 19 CLN posts of July 4 decorations.
Opportunity to Get Books, DVDs, and Supplies in Middle Tennessee
If you live in middle Tennessee, consider it a great opportunity to help one of our members make space
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One of our new CLN members serves with Open Door Ministries. Read about their ministry.
A Special Opportunity for Libraries
For 47+ days our entire church family came alongside a family in our church that
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Question about the Fablehaven series
Note the Battle of the Books idea by Debbie DeHart.
Laurie Barnes added a resource.
New re
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Library Ministry with Parents and Graduates in 2026
Let’s share ideas for these special celebrations during May.
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Babs found a new website that helps librarians select books for all ages.
Using Secular Preschool Books to Teach Biblical Themes
Michelle Bradshaw asked Susan Glynn Mute’ for more examples.
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Dr. Paul sent us a FOOTNOTE he wrote in 2009 sharing thoughts about a difficult season in his life while dealing with death. Perhaps his thoughts will be comforting to you as they are for me on a day when one of my closest friends embrac
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What review sites do you use to determine if a book should be added to your library?
Organizing Files: Subjects and Categories
Paul T. Jackson shares his filing subjects and categorie
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We are considering starting a new Church Librarians Network group for those who use Librarika to connect with each other in a useful way. If you are interested in this group, please answer Yes.
Even
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Our March Footnote from Paul T. Jackson.
Paul T. Jackson is passing along a fun list of Library Display Lines.
Publisher discounts? Wish-list for library purchases?
Stephanie Richardson ask
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Converting from ResourceMate to TinyCat
LEGACY DISCUSSIONS
Something different for today’s email. You will find four discussions from the past that mi
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New Event: Annual Evangelical Church Library Association Conference
Catalog: Curated Collections: Location
LET’S CONTINUE THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSIONS WITH NEW POSTS
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Is the weather a concern for your location? Praying for those of you in those areas.
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Frau Schneider posted a great question for us to grapple with this week.
Babs Harris posted a great question about what
Happy President’s Day!
We are starting something new today! One of our active members, Paul T. Jackson wrote a series of articles for his church a few years ago when he was a deacon. He called the series Footnotes. We are going to post one of these a
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Libraries that Serve Seminary Cohorts that Meet in the Building
This new discussion got a lot of attention this past week.
Perhaps this should have been done in previous winters. Strange how severe w
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Winter weather continues to affect many of us. Let’s continue to pray for those who have LOTS of snow and ice on the ground on the East coast. Middle Tennessee and other southern states are starting to see the end of Fern, but thousands st
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Perhaps you have recent experiences to share stemming from the winter storm named Fern. Many of us did not get to serve in libraries this past week nor this week. While hundreds of us lost electricity and/or wifi, many were able to partici
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In case you have not caught on to our email format, click on the subheadings to link to the discussions. But one difference is the first one today. Click on the first subhead, Jan Karon, to link to an outstanding recent interview featuring
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How Millennials and Gen Z Are Driving a Bible Reading Comeback
Since November I have wanted to start a discussion based on Barna’s report by this title. Let’s start with this report then continue to other that have implicatio
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In the midst of packing up our decorations, we had several posts last week. We are off to a great start for the new year here on the Church Librarians Network!
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Stephanie Richardson is just starting to rev
