Revitalization is the current term for restarting a church library. Many of our churches are in the revitalization mode for all of the church ministries. Most of our new CLN members respond that they their church is revitalizing the library. Let's share our revitalization stories. What is happening with your church's library?
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When I was trying to build circulation, I put together a series of brochures to station around the church. I put the parenting focussed brochures back in the childcare area. I had a few in the restrooms. More in the foyer. All where available outside the Resource Center (library). I called is a Resource Center, because not only did we have books, but also DVDs, CDs and lots of knowledge. The brochures listed media, online resources and church programs on each subject. Here is the link to my brochures. Please feel free to copy and customize for your church. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4y-qwGmWJh4aFJHbzdSWXVaeHM...
Shauna, I absolutely love these! Thank you so much for sharing the idea, including the brochures, and the permission to use/adapt them to our needs. I will send you a "request to edit" so that I may do so--much appreciated, indeed! You've created so many wonderful ones and I'd love to use them all eventually. To get me started, I chose several that I know for sure various members of our parish could use and a few to appeal to anyone in the congregation/parish.
Shauna - These are fabulous! A church near us had some nice fliers recommending books on specfic topics that we wanted to mimic but yours are more than just a list of books - they introduce and explain. They educate. These must have taken a long time to put together. What did you use as resources to decide what to include?
When I put these together, I had been a librarian almost 20 years. The books were frequent flyers in the library. I also talked with staff and got their recommendations. The links to online resources may need to be updated, but they were all highly recommended at that time. Our church also offered many programs which were listed. Since we all learn differently, I wanted to offer a number of ways to get needed information for the user.
Thank you. Very inspiring!
Shauna, these brochures are an amazing idea, and they look great. We had something similar in Library Tech school called Pathfinders. Did you create/write these yourself? I'm curious to know what kind of feedback you received. God bless.
Yes, I created and wrote them all. The feedback was excellent. People were grapping them and following through by getting plugged into ministries already offered at our church and stopping by the Resource Center for books. Blessings.
Hi Shauna,
These are great. Can I get access to customize for my church?
Sandy Blakney
library@wakechapel.org
You should be able to download/save each file. Does that not work??
Do you know of any way someone without google documents can use these? I have a MacBook computer and all i'm getting is "Safari cannot open" Safari is my web browser. I'll confess that I am not really tech savy.
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