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Adventures in Promoting
The Happy Birthday Book Club at
Champion Forest Baptist Church not
only helps promote the library but also
gives special recognition to the children
of the church preschool. As a bonus, it
helps expand the library's book collection.
Although the program was designed
for use in the preschool, with modifica-
tions it could be used for Sunday School
classes or other groups. You will find a
sample certificate and letter to parents
on the CSLA Web site, www.csla.info.
Thank you to Alrene Hall of the Houston
Area Chapter for submitting this promo-
tion idea.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLUB
At the beginning of each school year,
a letter is sent home in the Sunday school
packet inviting the parents of the
preschool students to provide a book to
be placed in the library to honor their
child's birthday. The form is returned tothe library with a check for $15. This is
recorded by the librarian.
A note is placed in the "alert file" for
one month prior to the child's birthday.
The librarian selects an appropriate book
for the birthday honor. The selection is
made dealing with the child's favorite
subject through observations by the
library staff. A label is created to be
placed in the front of the book, noting the
occasion of the birthday gift. In addition,
a calligrapher prepares a certificate with
the child's name, the book's title, and the
name of the donor.
During the week of the child's
birthday, the librarian goes to the class
and takes a Happy Birthday pencil, the
certificate, and the book, which has been
checked out to the child. A "presenta-
tion" is made in the classroom by the
librarian and the child is allowed to take
the book home that day for his parents to
see and to read with them.
This has been a wonderful "PR" for
the library while it honors each child. Ifchildren have summer birthdays, presen-
tations are made during the last two
weeks of school.
Parents have commented that the
Happy Birthday Club gives the children
the feeling that their birthday can be
shared with others through the books that
have been given. They are proud to show
other students "their" book when they
visit the library.
NOW, HOW ABOUT YOU?
What project, program or ideas have
you used that has helped promote your
congregational library? If you would like
to share them with other readers, please
contact us.
Just to follow up on Shawnee United
Methodist's Nativity Set Display project:
holding it the first Sunday of Advent
seemed to work well, and we checked out
several Christmas books that were
displayed with the sets.
Judy and Warren Livingston
Greater Kansas City Chapter
whlivingston@juno.comPROFESSOR CREATES RELIGIOUS ART SANCTUARY
ON THE INTERNETHolyCards.com, founded by Santa
Barbara City College marketing professor
Julie Ann Brown, is not your everyday e-
commerce venture.
Inspired by a desire to preserve and
share antique European religious images
from prayer books and holy cards, Brown
has devoted much of her limited free time,
and all of her inheritance, to collecting,
scanning and posting over 100,000 of
"God's calling cards" on the Web.
Taking advantage of travel discount
tickets obtained through her airline pilot
husband, she scoured eight European
countries collecting holy cards and lavishly
illustrated antique prayer books at auctions,
bookstores and estate sales. In spite of
knowing it will be years before she can
recoup her $150,000 investment, she is
thrilled she is accomplishing her goal of
preserving this fragile, paper-based religious
art for future generations.
6 C&SL"Time is running out for most antique
paper," said Brown. "Modem technology is
a part of God's plan to help not only with
remembering the past but creating future
possibilities that at this time we cannot
imagine. My goal is to get my entire
collection up on the Web before I die. I
want to preserve this art, this history, for
future generations."
A fan of holy cards since childhood,
she hopes her Web site's religious images of
Jesus, angels, saints, Easter and Christmas
scenes will inspire a new generation of the
faithful. "I'm hoping this art will create a
resurgence of faith in Europe," said Brown.
She may be onto something. Entrepre-
neurs from around the world are finding
their way to HolyCards.com for affordable
images to use in a multitude of projects.
Since the Web site's religious images are at
least 75 years old, with the majority createdin the 1800s and early 1900s, they are
royalty-free because they are classified as
"public domain" under copyright law.
Brown charges a nominal one-time fee of
$2-3 per image.
Customers have used her images for
projects such as wedding and christening
announcements, needlepoint patterns, t-
shirt transfers, home schooling materials
and personalized holy cards. Sophia Loren's
production company in Canada used many
of the images for a mini-series on the lives
of the saints while the Hallmark Channel
in the U.S. recently used an image of St.
Hildegard of Bingen obtained from
HolyCards.com. "These images can be used
by anyone, from the little entrepreneur to
the Vatican," said Brown. Log on to
www.HolyCards.com for downloadable,
royalty-free Christian religious images.
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