Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Book Marks - June 2007

Our library continues in its quest to make information available in a variety of ways, meeting you wherever you may be. If you find yourself online searching for church resources, look no further than the DHUMC Library Wiki! This is the one place online where you will find all the resource guides that are available from the William D. Thomson Library. Currently, that list amounts to one guide on United Methodism, but there are plans to add more within the next few months. The great thing about wikis, though, is that everyone in our community can contribute. If there is a topic you want to write about or contribute to, please contact Myka for more information.

We’re testing a new online catalog powered by LibraryThing.com. Links to our catalog now appear on the DHUMC Library Blog. To access the catalog directly, go to http://www.librarything.com/catalog/DHUMCLibrary. Please remember that this is just a trial, so only a few books from our collection are entered at this time. We would really appreciate feedback, so let us know what you think!

Please visit our blog (http://dhumclibrary.blogspot.com) for the latest news and updates. The church library is open Sunday mornings 9:45-11:00, and by appointment. Contact librarian Myka Kennedy Stephens (library@druidhillsumc.org) for more information.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

General Conference candidate profiles now available

Are you interested in learning more about those across the North Georgia Annual Conference who are running for election as lay delegates to General and Jurisdictional Conferences in 2008? Well, you're in luck because a guide containing biographies and pictures of all the candidates is now available in the church library. If you have strong feelings about one or more of the candidates, please share your thoughts with lay leader Dan Browning and senior pastor Rex Kaney. They will be representing Druid Hills UMC at Annual Conference this year and will be voting for delegates to the 2008 General Conference and 2008 Southeast Jurisdictional Conference.

The guide is currently displayed on the reading table in the library. We prefer that you spend time looking at this guide in the library so that it remains available to as many people as possible. If you must take it home, don't forget to fill-out the check-out form and please limit your check-out period to 1 week (as with all Reference materials). The guide will be withdrawn from the collection after the election is over.