To promote church libraries within UM congregations, inspire effective standards in church library ministries, advance inter-library and inter-denominational cooperation and dialogue.
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  • Marty Woodall December 26, 2025 20:11
    I want to invite all librarians to attend the Central Alabama Library Conference on March 7, 2026
    check out the EVENTS page for full conference information
  • Bev League August 7, 2025 10:49
    You are invited: "Check Out" the details about a Library Training Event in the Nashville area on September 13, 2025. Details on the Events Tab.
  • Melanie McKenzie August 14, 2024 17:04
    How do I join group
    • Morlee Maynard > Melanie McKenzie August 15, 2024 9:35
      In the lower right corner in the group description above click on the button Join Us! Then follow the prompts. Thanks!
      Morlee
  • Amy Burk August 25, 2023 9:21
    How do I join this group? I am a new volunteer librarian in Duluth GA at Duluth First UMC. Is this group active at all?
  • Stephen Deloney July 11, 2021 15:44
    Hey y'all. I hope everyone is well. Apologies for being an absentee group moderator for almost a decade. I've started a new church library project today and have all the enthusiasm early Methodists were accused as possessing in excess.
  • Marilyn A. Hudson, MLIS June 2, 2019 17:22

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  • Marilyn A. Hudson, MLIS June 2, 2019 17:20

    November is Tellabration! An event for storytelling (primarily for adults but can be for families as well). There is a website on the celebration held around the globe in various venues. It provides a nice and natural link to books for people to check out after they have listened to the stories told by the storyteller. Themes of hope, survival, challenges overcome, and helping one another. If there is a storytelling organization in your area contact members to see if they will come and share.  The website is: https://storynet.org/nsnevents/tellabration/

    Oral storytelling is linked to memory, visualization, imagination, vocabulary development, language use and empathy building.

    TELLABRATION!™
    November 16, 2019 Welcome to TELLABRATION!™, a night of storytelling celebrated worldwide on or about the third Saturday in November. Guilds and stor…
  • Charles E Brown Jr. July 14, 2017 7:22

    I'm a new librarian.   Does anybody have suggestions about improving the library's circulation?    Several problems:   competition with the Internet;  some groups in the church have their own collections of books;  we're on a wing of the building that's not on people's main paths.

  • Cynthia McConniel July 14, 2017 0:48

    I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their library mission statement as well as their collection and purging policies and whether or not you charge fines for late and lost materials,  Does anyone here use Church Library Organizer Pro?

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UMC Library consortium?

Is there a UMC library consortium?  Either nationally or regional/city?  I am in Dallas, have a small library (5000 or so titles), still on physical paper cards for borrowers, though keep my database in Bookcat (which is now defunct and not supported).  I have no budget, but need to get everything automated so patrons can at least search items online. Right now is honor system for circulation.  If I can get a decent, inexpensive system, I will propose a budget line item. I have reviewed a…

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