Selection and Gift Policy
The Media Library of Park Cities Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas affirms these guidelines to insure that the highest quality materials are provided to church members and guests.
All materials are subject to approval by the library staff and church leadership with the library director carrying the major responsibility of selection.
- Materials include printed media such as books and periodicals, audiovisual media such as audio tapes, video tapes, CDs, DVDs, multimedia kits and software.
- Media selected should relate to the personal interests and concerns of church staff, program leaders, church members of all ages, and people from the community.
- A primary focus of the collection will support the various church programs. Valuable additions to the collection may include Bibles in a variety of translations, Bible study helps, and materials on doctrine, Biblical ethics, Christian life, spiritual development, evangelism, witnessing, prayer, stewardship, worship, church membership, church music, church administration, special ministries, missions, church history, and information about Baptists and other religious persuasions.
- All materials will be of sound doctrine and scriptural interpretation. Titles related to religious groups and their beliefs should be objective in content. Materials should nurture the believer, proclaim the gospel, and call us to minister and to worship the Lord Jesus Christ.
- The collection should have high literary and technical quality, constructive in influence, morally sound and support our belief in positive development of the individual and Christian lifestyles.
- Personal lifetime concerns, such as family, marriage, childcare and rearing, discipline, characteristics and problems of aging, substance abuse, interpersonal relationships, and personal improvement.
- Leisure materials on recreation, sports, cooking, health, travel, gardening, hobbies and other special interests, such as fiction, poetry and the arts.
- Educational materials in psychology, history, geography, biography, non-fiction and other areas.
- Materials in print and electronic form, such as Biblical commentaries, lexicons, encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, and atlases will be kept current and relevant for each age group.
Materials will be selected with the characteristics of our people in mind, which will determine our general collection choices: age, culture, locale, educational background, spiritual maturity, denominational background, special interests and needs.
