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With all the tornadoes and storms Friday through Saturday, let’s assume many libraries and their churches and synagogues were damaged or even destroyed. May we be faithful to pray for them.
Christmas Displays
We had a great response to o
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Christmas Plans?
Are your Christmas decorations and displays done? We would love to see them. Please take pictures and post them here. Click on the red button on the top right of the photos to search your pictures on your computer. If yo
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Happy Hanukkah to all our synagogue librarians! To all our church librarians, let the decorating for Christmas begin!
Additional replies: Fantasy and Futuristic Fiction
We continue to get replies for fantasy and futuristic fiction titles
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Q&A New Post: eBooks
Yesterday, Debbie Dehart asked about eBooks. Click here.
Q&A New Post: Fantasy and Futuristic Fiction
Tim Wilson is looking for fantasy and futuristic fiction titles and/or authors. Any recommendations? Click here.
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Have you had a chance to view the Christy Award winners for 2021? Great place to consider new selections for our libraries. Click here. While you are on their website, cruise through their Hall of Fame. Click here. Enjoy!
Team Christmas
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Today is my Mother’s 97th birthday. She saw Jesus face-to-face many years ago so her memories are flooding my mind and heart today. Anita Hale was my inspiration to serve in Church Library Ministry. The thought occurred to me just now t
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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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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
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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
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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.
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