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: help children / youth love Jesus parent effectively enhance the quality of family life further spiritual and personal growth

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