I believe there has been some misunderstanding of the arguments I and Rachel Leket-Mor have made about what to do with old Jewish children's books. Neither Rachel nor I said that anyone should keep these books in their collection. What we said was that we understood why librarians must weed, but that we would prefer to see these old books donated rather than destroyed. Our arguments were about preservation and donation, not about maintaining outdated books in one's collection. We are talking about two different sets of values; the value of a collection to the people who use it, and the value of books to historical research. Please understand that we are asking those of you who are weeding books to think about donating these books to archives or historical collections rather than dumping them into trash bins. It is worth the few moments of your time to make this consideration.
Thank you, June Cummins ________________________________________ June Cummins, Associate Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
