Working Together

On Sunday, May 18 during the morning service, a four alarm blaze erupted inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Longfellow Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts. All 300 worshipers escaped unharmed but much of the church went up in flames. As tragic as this event was to that congregation, I was happy to read [...]

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The First Meeting

Recently, the retiring director and I had the chance to meet and discuss the church library’s past, present and future. To begin with, it’s not that big of a room – about 14 x 8 feet and other furniture has found its way into the room throughout the years, lessening the available space considerably. One [...]

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Church Library – Old School Style

I came upon some information on this historically acclaimed library located in Zutphen in the Netherlands. It is one of the five remaining pre-Reformation libraries in the world, the other four being in England and Italy. One interesting fact about this “Librije” is that it has a very handy way of ensuring that their collection of books [...]

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