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E s t a b l i s h i n g a L i b r a r y

for witnessing projects and their resources

   My Prayer:

"Dear Lord, as this church starts to select resources to Make Disciples of all Nations, may the Holy Spirit guide and direct their efforts and lead those who will use these resources grow in Your image. Amen, Amen!"

   Our GOAL is to:

nurture the paricipant in Christ
provide the tools for witnessing

find a ministry for you, A N D
provide a mentor to get you started A N D
lead you to find one to give his/her heart to Jesus

train techies to use social media
= like face book, twitter, and all the others
= to reach people for Christ!!!
= this is a fun project also

   RESOURCES:

Books
Magazines / Periodicals
Internet sites
DVDs
Audio Books [ = you can listen to ]

   CLASSIFYING the collections:

Spirit of Prophecy books are the easiest to classify.
E. G. White books would be W.
Use the codes the Index uses!

Acts of the Apostles = AA Steps to Christ = SC
Desire of Ages = DA

the call numbers will look like this:
W W W
AA SC DA

for books not listed in the Index, of special compilations like devotionals = make up you own codes

Classification of other subjects:

Bibl = Bibles
Chil = Children = K - grade 6
Devo = Devotions and Devotionals
Divo = Divorce
Fami = Family Life
Fath = Fathers
Fina = Finances
Fune = Funerals
Heal = Health
Infa = Infants - up to thee years old
Marr = Marriage
Men = Men
Moth = Mothers
Natu = Nature
Nutr = Nutrition - Foods
Pare = Parenting
see also

Chil = Children = K - grade 6
Fath = Fathers
Infa = Infants - up to three years old
Moth = Mothers
Yout = Youth or teenagers = grades 7 - 12

Pers = Personal Growth
Pray = Prayer
Spir = Spiritual Growth
Yout = Youth / Teenagers = grades 7 - 12
Wome = Women

be creative as you may want to add other subjects

here is the call number for another book:
P Habenicht, Donna
Hab Teaching the Faith: an Essential Guide for Building
Faith-Shaped Kids. Review, 2004.
P = Parenting
Hab = use the first three letters of the author's last name

   P R O C E S S I N G :

Since you need to know:

who checked out an item = you need a book card
when the patron has to bring it back, = you need a date due slip
find an item [ place the call number on the spine of the book ]
= you need labels

or visit your public library and see how they did it!!!

   M A R K E T I N G :

The best time for library hours is before Sabbath School and / or right after the Chrch Service

If you have a church bulletin, have a place called "Your Church Library" to promote and introduce new items to the members on a regular basis.

Also introduce them to the links mentioned in this manual;

   C O N C L U S I O N :

The Lord bless you richly AND have fun.

For more information please look at my Web site:
My School Library

Scroll down to < Establishing a Church Library >

   Where to G E T these R E S O U R C E S :

New and Used Book Dealers lists dealers that:

the ones in blue (6) are run by Adventists

those in violet (2) have used Adventist books

and the rest of them are the best!

I purchase most of my used non-Adventist books from booksprice.com and then I choose abebooks.com

Wolfhard Touchard, M. L. S. Retired Reference & Database Librarian
Andrews University - April 2014