Welcome to your resources
We hope these tools will help you feel confident and well equipped to serve your Reading Room, seeing it as an intrinsic part of your branch, bringing healing to your congregation and your community.
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Getting started
Are you a librarian for the first time? Here are the basic instructions you cannot miss!
Read in the Church Manual about Reading Rooms.
Support the work of the Reading Room through prayer.
Defend the healing atmosphere of the Reading Room.
Challenge impositions in thought about this work and invite other Reading Room attendants to do the same.
Prepare to welcome members of your community.
Schedule a workshop provided by The Mother Church.
Connect to other Librarians in the “All things Reading Room” Group
Invite your community in. Find posters and other display items available via our Dropbox repository.
Determine if there are promotional materials that need updating.
The “Reading Room Group” is a great way for Reading Rooms librarians, staff, and those interested in Reading Room activity to connect and share inspiration and fruitage; ask questions about Reading Room activities to other group members; post and share pictures, window display art, and videos; and locate out-of-print titles visitors are asking for. This is a private community to protect the members and their conversations, so first-time visitors will need to apply to join. Permission will be granted shortly after the request is received.
Sign up
Join the group with a personal email address. All email service providers can be used.
Join the conversation
Posting and reading threads is very easy.
Posts are visible to all group members.
Post comments can be seen by everyone unless you choose to contact the poster directly.
Attachments such as photos, video clips, and documents can be included in posts.
Group members can control how frequently they receive messages.
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Additional information
Schedule a Reading Room workshop
This workshop helps librarians and members focus on the Reading Room as a healing place for the community and brings a fresh perspective to this intrinsic part of “a church designed to reinstate primitive Christianity”. (Manual, p. 17)
If you would like to request a workshop please email TMCbranch@christianscience.com
Take a look here at the other workshops available for your branch.
Visit the online shop
Online shop product information
Magazine order forms
To place bulk order for The Monitor, please use the Monitor Order Form
To place bulk orders of any of the other magazines, please email sales@csps.com