Church Library
VISIT YOUR LIBRARY
From: Jeanine Kenworthy
Exciting News!! We have a new computer in the libary for your use. You will be able to use it to find what is in our collection instead of using the card catalog. It is similar to the public library's search. (The physical card catalog will stay in place, also.)
In addition, you may use the computer to search the internet, check your e-mail, write and print documents and letters, and more! Several sites such as Butt-Holdsworth Library and our own St. Paul's web site will be on "Favorites" so that you can quickly get to them.
Instructions will be posted beside the computer so that you can use it easily. Come in and try it out.
The library is part of St. Paul’s neighborhood ministry, and serves as a way to introduce others to our church. If you haven’t told friends who do not attend here about our wonderful library, please do so. They only need to fill out a patron card to check out any media.
We are constantly adding new books for all ages. Find the titles on the “New” list on the cart in Fellowship Hall or the pillar by the checkout desk in the Library.
Your library is staffed on Sunday mornings and Thursdays, 9:30 A.M. to Noon and is open anytime during office hours.
A Short History of Your Library:
On October 2, 1982, the Joycelyn Spellman Stephens Memorial Resource Library was dedicated by the congregation and pastor—a ceremony some of you attended.
That first library was located in the room which now serves as a chapel in the fellowship hall. The library consisted of a few books on some shelves, but it kept growing until it was overflowing in the 1990's. When the Darrell Gray Education Building was completed in 1999,the plans called for our current library. Flo Brennan, the original librarian, developed the floor plan and decor for the new space. She arranged specific areas for children, youth and young adults, for adults, the UMW, as well as a media section with tapes, television and a computer. In addition, she oversaw the smooth transition of 2,000 pieces of media to the new space. Several members contributed art work to the new room. Also in 1999, your library and Flo were recognized by the Church and Synagogue Library Association for the Outstanding Congregational Library Award. In 2000, Judy Carr became the librarian and served through 2005, so I am only the third librarian. The collection has almost doubled since 1999. Recently, Judy gave funds to purchase a book as a memorial to my mother, Zoe Hayes—I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A lost Tale of the Underground Railroad, by Karolyn Smardz Frost.
Your library is staffed on Sunday mornings and on Thursdays, 9:30 A.M. to Noon, and is open anytime during office hours.
"Children can have no better inheritance than believing parents. Religion can become real in the midst of the family as in practically no other way. Many of us have inherited great riches from our parents—the bank account of their personal faith and family prayers."
–Nels F.S. Ferre
