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Reading Room Librarians: Your resources

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.

Can't find something? Please reach out to us.

Email: opendoors@csps.com

Getting started

Are you a librarian for the first time? Here are the basic instructions you cannot miss! 


Quick link: The Online Shop

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Product Lists

  • 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.



The “All Things Reading Room” Google Group is a great way for Reading Rooms to communicate with each other on a variety of topics including inspiration, inventory, and serving the community. This is a private group 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.

Signing up

  • Join the group with a personal or church gmail address. [Google Groups are not operated by ChristianScience.com or The Mother Church. They are governed by Google's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.]

  • If you do not have a gmail.com email address and do not want one, you need to create a Google account with your non-gmail email address.

    • Hint: check to see if your church already uses a non-gmail account to participate in “All Things Reading Room.”

    • Note: If you don’t create a Google account with your non-gmail email address, you will be able to see email communications from the group, but you will not be able to participate in any of the discussions or access the group itself. Also, your replies or questions to the group will not be visible.

Joining the conversation

  • Posting and reading threads is very easy. It’s just like writing and reading email.

    • Posts are visible to all group members.

    • Responses can be sent to everyone (reply to the post directly on the board) or to the individual poster (use the reply button).

    • Attachments including documents and photos can be added to a post.

  • Group members can control how frequently they receive messages.

JOIN THE GROUP


More detail

Communications: Newsletters (eBulletin) updates and archive

Read current and recent Reading Room eBulletins.

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Webinar schedule & replays

Here you can find our webinar schedule and view webinar replays.

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Get free posters, videos, and other promotional materials


Guidelines on window displays, websites, and social media

These were put together by our legal team to help provide guardrails and helpful insights.

Inspiring articles from the Christian Science magazines

Why does the world need Christian Science Reading Rooms? Lynn Bingham interviewed by the Journal's Jenny Sinatra (The Christian Science Journal, May 2017)

The Importance of the Reading Room by Richard C. Bergenheim (The Christian Science Journal, November 1994)

The Spirit of Church by Mark Swinney (The Christian Science Journal, May 2008)

Good Samaritan qualities and our Reading Room by Joan Bernard Bradley (The Christian Science Journal, January 2016)

The divine demand for church: “Go, and do thou likewise” by Kim Crooks Korinek (The Christian Science Journal, June 2023)

The rewarding work of a Reading Room librarian by Robert Witney (The Christian Science Journal, December 2023)

Christian Science Reading Rooms (The Christian Science Journal, November 1990)

Give, and it shall be given you by Lucille Blankenship (The Christian Science Journal, February 2022)

Approved providers

  • Approved Providers (“Providers”) are individuals or companies who have been approved by The Mother Church and The Christian Science Publishing Society to supply display materials to Reading Rooms.

  • Original images posted on Provider websites have been reviewed and approved by TMC and CSPS.

  • Providers may also provide printing services for promotional materials from the online CSPS Reading Room Wholesale Shop.

  • Christian Science branch churches and Reading Rooms may request custom “one-off” designs from Providers, in accordance with TMC/CSPS display guidelines.

  • To inquire about applying to become an Approved Provider, or if you have questions about this program, please email approvedprovider@csps.com.

  • We will update this page from time to time to reflect recent changes to the list of Providers. Currently Approved Providers are:


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.



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