As stake director of libraries, you serve under the direction of the stake Sunday School presidency. The Church Handbook of Instructions describes your responsibilities as follows:

• Provide leadership to ensure that each meetinghouse library functions properly. Recommend to the stake Sunday School presidency how the libraries could be improved.
• Conduct administrative and training meetings for meetinghouse librarians and others who serve in the library.
• Encourage members to use the library for classroom and home instruction.
• Ensure that library materials, equipment, and supplies needed by stake officers are available.
  (See Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 2: Priesthood and Auxiliary Leaders [1998], 285.)

As you work to fulfill your responsibilities as stake director of libraries, you may find the following suggestions useful.

1. Keep a current roster of all ward librarians. Working in conjunction with the stake and ward clerks, the stake director of libraries could keep a current roster of all ward librarians and the times during which they and their staff members are in their respective libraries.

2. Ensure that each meetinghouse library has the most current “Library Start-Up Kit.” For more information about the items listed in this kit, see the most recent version of the Church Materials Catalog. Local units may add to these materials depending on their needs.

3. Provide leadership to ensure that each meetinghouse library functions properly. Under the direction of the stake Sunday School presidency, the stake director of libraries could contact the respective ward meetinghouse librarians and arrange to provide “administrative and training meetings” (Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 2, 285). An example of an agenda item for this meeting could be the suggestion that all ward librarians consider arranging times other than Sunday when the respective ward libraries could be open for families to check out materials for use in family home evening or family scripture study.

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