Library
Our library is open when Andrews Hall is open!
The Library Committee’s mission is to provide books and other resources that will strengthen the lives of members and deepen their relationship with God. Stop in to see special book offerings tied to themes or causes supported by various DPC committees.
Read and Chat Book Discussion
The book group meets in AH-213 on the second Wednesday of each month at 1 pm and ends no later than 2:30 pm. pm. Join us! Contact Joyce Baral 215-348-8335 for questions. Below is the schedule for 2024-2025:
Sept. 11 – The Women by Kristin Hannah – Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation.
Oct. 9 – The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger – On Memorial Day, the body of Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River. The investigation falls to Sheriff Brody Dern.
Nov. 13 – Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland – Loveday Cardew’s beloved bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books, the doors are closed. Then the first letter comes.
Dec. 11 – Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner – It’s the summer of 1907 in the Arizona Territory. Mary Pearl and her sister Esther take their minds off the heat by sneaking banned Jane Austen novels from Aunt Sarah Elliot’s lively bookshelf.
Jan. 8 – Small Mercies: A Detective Mystery by Dennis Lehane – One night in the summer of 1974, Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead under mysterious circumstances.
Feb. 12 – The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson – Mabel’s husband loved lists. He’d leave them for her everywhere. But now Arthur is gone. But he’s left her a list with just one item on it: ‘Find D’.
Mar. 12 – Heft by Liz Moore – Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn’t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, 17-year- old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career.
April 9 – The Many Lives of Mama Love by Laura Love Hardin – No one expects the police to knock on the door of the million-dollar two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret.
May 14 – Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng – Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him.
Circulation Desk
We ask you to check out all materials before you take them from the Library. Circulation is self-serve. Books can be borrowed for three weeks; CDs and DVDs for one week. Write your full name and the date (include the year) on the card found in the back of the item and leave the card in the box on the circulation desk
Concourse: The Library’s Computer System
Locating books and other materials is easy: just click on “Easy Word Search” and type in a title, subject, or author and click on “search.” The list of available items will be displayed. Please note: because we do not track checked out books in the computer, all books will be marked as “in,” when in fact they may be currently checked out.
Jigsaw Puzzle Exchange
Something new has arrived in our Library … a Jigsaw Puzzle Exchange! Bring your jigsaw puzzles to the Library to share with others and exchange it for ones you would like try. No sign out is necessary. The puzzles are located on a shelf under the long counter under the front.
CDs and DVDs Items
Our CDs and DVDs are housed in the Library. In the collection, you will find music and movies appropriate for all ages.
Books
The extensive children’s collection has titles that would supplement topics you might be discussing in classrooms. Books are donated by the Committee for each child born to or adopted by Church families.
Thanks to the over 50 donations by Zondervan in 2008, the youth collection has expanded greatly.
Resources for Church School Teachers
DPC’s Library and its resources are available to all Church School teachers. There is a special teachers’ resource area located on the right-hand side of the shelf under the windows. These resources provide ideas for classroom activities, games, puzzles, bulletin boards, and more. They are divided into Arts and Crafts, Bible, Old Testament, New Testament, and Church Year. Check out for these items is the same as other Library items.
Magazine Swap
Located on the left-hand side of the shelf under the windows, magazines are available without check out. You are free to use these magazines in any way that is helpful to you. The Committee tries to keep the magazines weeded to the most current six months. We also invite you to donate your own current magazines.
Worship Resources
Looking for prayer(s) and / or worship resources – look in section 242 – 248, or search on the Library’s computer.
Helpful Hints
Books with colored dots on the spine represent:
- Green – Christmas
- Yellow – Lent
- Orange – Thanksgiving
- Lime – Christian Health Ministries
- Smiley Faces – Local school district reading list suggestions