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Christians have always been "people of the book." This love and encouragement of reading is extended beyond Scripture to include many books that inspire, challenge, expand and comfort people. The St. Paul’s Library, Archives and Rowen Memorial Collection is building a set of resources that will do these things for our parish.
The Adult library collection is made up of nearly 1000 titles- books, visual and audio material. The Archives portion of the collection is filled with unique historical documents, items and pictures that portray and describe the parish’s 100+ year history.
Click Here to access the Adult library catalog listed by Title. Click Here for the full Excel Version - Separated by Authors, Subjects, and Titles
The Children’s and Youth library began with a generous gift from the St. Nicholas Guild of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in memory of Ivolene Rowen, a school teacher who loved reading and passed on that love to the children and youth of St. Paul's. Today, the unified parish library houses the Rowen Memorial Collection for Children and Youth.
Click here for the Rowen Collection's catalog listed by Title. Click Here for the full Excel Version - Separated by Authors, Subjects, and Titles
The Easy collection is designed for the youngest children, from birth to around age 8 or 9 (3rd grade or so). It has books that are either very simple to read, or simple to understand or enjoy when read aloud by an older reader to a child. Retellings of Bible stories, prayers and stories of families are found in this collection. Many of the items are board books that are easily handled by small children.
The Children’s collection is aimed at the school-age student, grades 3 through 6, or about ages 8 to 12. There are both fiction and non-fiction books here. The fiction items include both simple stories and chapter books; there are also DVDs and videos of interest to this age group. The non-fiction collection is mostly on Christian or religious topics, but also includes other useful titles.
The J2A collection is intended for people from around age 12 through adult. The Rite 13 and J2A students are encouraged to look over the growing group of items available here. There are DVDs, CDs, cassettes and videos in the collection. We welcome suggestions from youth and their advisors for new items to add to the music, visual or book collections.
The age designations of the three collections are intended as loose guidelines. Parents and teachers, look through each collection for material that may be useful or appropriate for your students or your purpose; a small but growing "Teachers/Parents" section of materials is also located in the children’s and youth area.
The Library maintains wish lists for both the Parish Library and the Rowen Collections at Amazon.com and encourages those who would like to donate material to the Library- in honor, in memory, or in thanksgiving for someone- to look at the list for things particularly needed for the various collections. For the Rowen wish list, search Amazon for "Rowen Children’s Library." For the Parish library wish list, search for "St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Library” and use the state "Michigan."
Contact the Librarian or call the church office 517-787-3370 for more information.
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