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Special prayers for our friends out West dealing with the wildfires. Continuing to pray for those of you recovering from Hurricane Laura. Even now another hurricane is headed your way. And our prayers go out for those of you dealing with
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Happy Labor Day!!
Updated Publishers List
Great response to last week’s post of the updated Publishers List. In case you missed it, download the 2020 Publishers list here.
Let’s Read
Ann Lancaster shared what she is reading this weekend. How about yo
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Sounds like many of areas hit by Hurricane Laura are still without power. Let’s continue to pray for people in these areas.
Updated Publishers List
Have you ever considered an item for your collection that you had questions about the publi
Contributed by Eva Nell Hunter, library team leader for Central Baptist Church, Decatur, Alabama and Sue Berthelot, library team leader for Ascension Baptist Church, Gonzales, Louisiana.
The publishers are listed for your convenience with the inte
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Summer Reading Program?
Check out what Debbie Dehart and her team did this summer with the kids: Flat Librarians Reading Program. Curious? Take a look here.
Study report on length of time to quarantine items
Lois Keel shared a link to a re
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Last week was fun for me! I really enjoyed going through all the posts on The Circle as I labeled each one with a category. There were several posts that were out of date for various reasons, but many more that had all kinds of information
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Interesting discovery last week. As I continued to go through our posts on The Circle and Q&A to connect them with categories, I discovered a post by Janet Estridge dated March 14, 2015 in which she wrote: “I just came across a website tha
Book Contributed by Charles Businaro
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With school starting in a few days, does that mean summer is over for all of us? I hope not! My summer reading is still in progress!! Recently, our Enrichment Center received a collection of books belonging to a special friend who passed a
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Is this week really the last for July? Some of our schools will be starting very soon if not already. I guess that means summer is just about done. And I guess that means Vacation Bible School and Summer Reading Clubs are wrapping up.
VB
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We had a busy week continuing to set up the new website and posting new articles. Grateful to those who pointed out a couple of things to fix. As we heard from you, we immediately took care of the problems. So, keep emailing us to let us
Written by Ken Satterfield
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra
Successful churches, like successful busin
Written by Sue Berthelot
Plans were made and carried out for a successful book drive. Now is the time to wrap up the details and enjoy all the new items in the library. Consider the day after the drive, evaluation, and coming weeks.
Day After th
Written by Sue Berthelot
With your plans in hand for your book drive, here are some implementation ideas. These ideas include selection, bookstore, online, pricing, helpers, room set up, before the drive, day of the drive, and additional tips.
Selec
Written by Sue Berthelot
With tight or small budgets, it can be difficult for a church library to provide key items to meet the needs of their users. Library team leaders are challenged to be creative and frugal with their dollars. One type of fundr
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Have you discovered our new website? Well, “new” means our new look and some new tabs. Our website URL is the same: churchlibrarians.NING.com. Your password is the same. You will find lots of content we had before, some new, and we look f
Written by Glenn McEowen
This article discusses the cost of the e-books[1] service. We will look at vendors' annual fees, the cost of titles and the time the library staff uses to manage e-books.
Vendor Annual Fees:
When we select a vendor to for ou
Contributed by Judy Dorn and Susan Tyler
When Taylors First Baptist Church began renovation in 2016, the desire was to create an open area where folks could meet, greet, and have a cup of coffee. That created a challenge for the library volunteers si
Contributed by Sue Berthelot
Organization in the library is important for its efficient operation. How do we keep vital
information easily accessible and up to date? One tool to help accomplish this goal is a Desk
Book. It should contain all policies
Contributed by Ron Edmondson
Download: SendingCenterInformation
