November 30, 2020
Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah!
We had lots of viewers last week, but not too many posts. We all had other things to do last week! Let’s start new Christmas and Hanukkah discussions this week.
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Happy Thanksgiving!! Even though this year will be different due to the pandemic, may God bless all your holiday plans.
REALM (Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums) Project Report
Some of us are on the email list to receive test resu
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Check out what’s happening on the Church Librarians Network this week.
Selection: Appropriateness
Ann Lancaster asked a question on Friday that many if not most of us deal with often. She is asking about the appropriateness of a specific b
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Praying For those of you in Hurricane Eta’s path today and coming days.
Veterans Day
What are we doing with Veterans Day this year? I put together a simple display enhancement for Veterans Day for the Enrichment Center. I even remembered t
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Are you recovering from the time change today like me?
Our Ministry with Children Through our Libraries
This past Thursday our children’s minister invited me to coffee. We had a great conversation about all sorts of things happening in our
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Looks like Colorado is the target now for the wildfires. Praying for those of you in the path.
COVID Research for Libraries Testing Results
Be sure to catch the discussion going on with the Realm Report posted last week. Click here.
For di
For most of us, to “seize the day” (just in case your Latin is a little rusty) means to make the most of each day we are given. Or, as David put it in Psalm 118:24 (CEV), “This day belongs to the Lord! Let’s celebrate and be glad today.”
How much do
What’s New on the Church Librarians Network?
Our prayers continue for all of you who have been hit by the hurricanes and tornadoes recently. May God be with you this week.
Covid Research for Libraries Testing Results
OCLC released their Realm Test 5
What’s New on the Church Librarians Network?
Praying for our friends in the path of Hurricane Delta and those already dealing with the destruction left behind. May God be with you this week.
Fall Displays
Adair Elwing and Johanne Bryant posted pictur
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What’s new on the Church Librarians Network?
New Article: “Dealing with Photos: Squishing and Choosing”
Grab a cup of tea or coffee. Find your favorite place to learn. Ken Satterfield contributed a new article to stretch our skills in visu
I’ve written scripts in the past and produced videos for over 20 years with my post-production friend Steve.
We were both aware of the value of finding the right image to hold the viewer’s attention, but my scripts often had what we jokingly called “
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Last week was one of our busiest on the CLN! Each day broke records in number of views. Great to have so many of you with us last week!
Organize Fiction
Be sure to look at the comments about how to organize fiction. Thank you, Jennifer S
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Our prayers continue for those of you who are in the path of hurricanes and wildfires. And our prayers continue for those of you recovering from the damage left by hurricanes and wildfires.
Maxine Bersch-Lovern
We are remembering Mackie as
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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
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
