Tuesday, March 27, 2007

State of the Library Report

The State of the Library report which was given to Administrative Council on February 28, 2007 is now available online.
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Book Marks - April 2007

Late Breaking News from the Library!

We have two very important and exciting developments to announce in this issue of Book Marks. The first is that our church library’s blog is featured in the current issue of Congregational Libraries Today! Your church librarian wrote an article for the Church and Synagogue Library Association about how blogs can enhance the service of congregational libraries, citing the development of our own blog (http://dhumclibrary.blogspot.com). It is on the cover of their bimonthly magazine, providing great exposure for our library ministry.

The second development I have to report is our potential partnership with Druid Hills Baptist Church to form a union catalog that would be available online. Our current catalog will be merged with theirs, and online access means that you will be able to access our catalog from anywhere! It also opens the possibility for sharing resources between our libraries, and there are plans to invite Druid Hills Presbyterian Church and St. John’s Lutheran Church to join our endeavor. The library would like to extend a special thanks to Dan Browning and Rick Kravako, who are working on getting an Internet connection in the library which will help facilitate this transition.

Please keep watching our blog for new acquisitions and updates. We welcome volunteers to help us catalog and process materials. It is an exciting time to be involved in library ministries! Come by and see what's going on!