Champaign Chinese Christian Church Library Project

Champaign Chinese Christian Church Library Project

The Champaign Chinese Christian Church (CCC) registered as a non-profit organization in 1991. It settled down at this time at Temple Baptist Church (1100 Broadmoor Dr., Champaign, IL) in 2000. It has been developed from a student church to a community church, serving Chinese Christian residents and visitors in Champaign. In the building, CCC possesses a 165.88-feet-square library space to stack books, manuscripts, textbooks, and audiovisual materials, for public reference. Collections are mainly in either Chinese or English language, with small quantities of materials in other languages. These materials include various topics about Christianity; they were donated to the Church, by individuals or by families. When I started to take over the library service in this church, books were roughly sorted by their subjects with labels of DDC numbers as their call numbers. These processed items arrived at the library in the early times of the church. Librarians at that time (years around 2004) had done excellent work, but after they left, no one took care of the library. Newly donated items were totally unprocessed. Based on the library manual, made in 2004 by prior librarians, this project will incorporate its original Statement of Purpose. In addition, methods of administration and operation should have some changes to fit today’s librarianship trends. In this poster presentation, the author shared the purposes, methods, workflow, and the challenges in this project with librarians of CALA.

Zhang, Kezhen

2018-05-11

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eng

Poster

The purposes, methods, workflow, and the challenges of the Temple Baptist Church Library

Zhang, Kezhen. "Champaign Chinese Christian Church Library Project" Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Midwest Chapter. Accessed August, 11, 2022.