Events

The Southern California Chapter of the Evangelical Church Library Association welcomes all church librarians and assistants (or those interested) in the southern California area to join us for a morning of fellowship and peer-mentoring. We will be meeting at Calvary Chapel Golden Springs in Diamond Bar just off the 60 (Pomona) Freeway. Morning refreshments will be served. A tour of their library will follow the meeting. Optional lunch.

The Baptists of Texas convention always puts on a GREAT church library ministry conference. Go to their web site for details for the 2014 event.

A time for church librarians in Tarrant County to reconnect with fellow librarians for food, fun and fellowship.  RSVP 817-545-0184.  Bring a door prize and share what you are doing in your library.  Find out the scheduled meetings for TAMM for 2014 and help plan the conference subjects.

The Fall meeting will be hosted at Buena Park Library. Our special guest speaker, Phyllis Nisle, will discuss the development of a collection of Christian books within the public library fiction collection. She will demo review tools and discuss their Overdrive collection of eBooks as well. A tour of the large public library will follow. A Tailgate Party in the parking lot for morning refreshments at 9:40 will precede the meeting at 10:10 - noon. Following the meeting, there will be an optional 

Free conference including lunch, great leaders, author speaker, and lots of freebies. For details, contact Eva Nell Hunter.

Fall Conference

Harvesting 55 years of Church Library Ministry

Newsletter and Conference information 2013__Fall2.pdf

For details, contact Ian Richardson or Judy Chen.

Don't miss this jam-packed day of learning and networking with other librarians. Quality teachers on a variety of subjects. Open to all church, public and school librarians. Sponsored by the Todd Scholarship Fund and the Tennessee Baptist Convention

Our featured author, Nancy Rue, will be teaching a class on Writing and Publishing Tips and Trends.

New this year: instruction in both Concourse and Atriuum. 

For details, contact Fran Allen.

Don't miss this jam-packed day of learning and networking with other librarians. Quality teachers on a variety of subjects. Open to all church, public and school librarians. Sponsored by the Todd Scholarship Fund and the Tennessee Baptist Convention

Our featured author, Londa Hayden, will be teaching a class on Writing and Publishing tips and trends.

New this year: instruction in both Concourse and Atriuum. 

For details, contact Rick Ellison.

Don't miss this jam-packed day of learning and networking with other librarians. Quality teachers on a variety of subjects. Open to all church, public and school librarians. Sponsored by the Todd Scholarship Fund and the Tennessee Baptist Convention

Our featured author, Dianne Barker, will be teaching a class on Writing and Publishing tips and trends.

New this year: instruction in both Concourse and Atriuum. 

Don't miss this jam-packed day of learning and networking with other librarians. Quality teachers on a variety of subjects. Open to all church, public and school librarians. Sponsored by the Todd Scholarship Fund and the Tennessee Baptist Convention Library Ministry.

Our featured author, Kaye Dacus will be teaching a class on Writing and Publishing tips and trends.

New this year: instruction in both Concourse and Atriuum. 

The Baptist Association of Greater Baton Rouge, Louisiana  is hosting a conference for all ministries of the church. There will be 4 sessions for church librarians.

Four break-out session for Church Libraries

Cost: $20 per person on or before August 12

$25 per person after August 12 or at the door

Includes lunch

Registration form is online at www.bagbr.org/TOTALCH-RegistrationForm.pdf

Great plans are in store for all of us this summer at Ridgecrest! Go to our web page to find information about lodging and the conferences being offered during this event. Click on Schedule to get the working titles of the conferences and the speakers. Open the tabs Schedule, Breakouts, and Speakers to find descriptions of all we will be doing together. We are very pleased to have six authors speaking on Saturday afternoon at the Ministry Bridges: Don Brown, Ann Tatlock, Maxine Bersch Lovern, Al

Lots of workshops, vendors, interaction with other church librarians.  Also, author Nancy Robinson Masters will offer her keynote address and a tour of local church libraries. A tour to the Cherokee Indian Reservation is available as well as an evening outdoor theater drama "Unto These Hills" will be offered.  A trolley tour of Lake Junaluska Libraries, Museums & Gardens on Saturday.

The 2013 PNACL conference is themed "Leaves of Grace".  Join us for guest speaker Lauraine Snelling, numerous workshops, and fellowship.

We at First Baptist Church of Alexandria, VA are significantly downsizing our library and are offering much of our current collection and all of our unprocessed books (100s of each) to our fellow church librarians. We will only be keeping the following:
• Non-fiction 210-239
• Select marriage and parent resources
• Children/young adult non-fiction and fiction
• DVDs and CDs

Anything not in the above categories is available, including all of the Christian Living (240's) and adult fiction as well as a

Central Alabama Spring Library Workshop

Saturday April 27^th, 2013

Shoal Creek Baptist Church

13214 Holtville Rd.

Deatsville, Al. 36022

Registration begins at 8:00 A.M.

Contact Marty Woodall for info

martybooks1@juno.com or

334-569-3854

Central Alabama Schedule Grid

Transforming Your Faith Library into a Vital Congregational Resource: The Faith Libraries of Northern Colorado's 4th annual workshop for faith librarians.

Topics include:

•How to reinvigorate your library and keep it that way

•How your library can attract and support children, families, college students, and young adults

•How your library can be a hospitality center

•Successful theme-based collection development

•Juvenile Holocaust literature with non-Jewish protagonists

•Current trends at Poudre Val