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Below is the report for the Library Snapshot Day at the Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library at Congregation Beth Ami, Santa Rosa, CA. On Sundays the library is open between 9 AM and 12.30. For the Library Snashot Day we also had two additional events after these hours. Pictures and the handouts of our events are available from the blog post version of this report at: http://www.bethamisr.org/library/2010/11/10/report-on-learningsnapshot-day/ Our first planned event, a discussion with the older students of the religious school got postponed because of logistical reasons. The second one, story time with the second graders, started a little bit later than planned, because of their folk dancing class. The nine children and one madricha arrived to the library a few minutes after 11 AM and we read "It Could Always Be Worse" by Margot Zemach. They enjoyed the story and were active in the discussion about it, providing ideas how a situation could be worse or how the problem in the opening pages of the book could be solved. Six of the children borrowed books after the reading, one for each. We had four more visitors in the library till we closed at 12.30, not counting the teachers, all of them parents. Two of them borrowed a book each. At 1 PM the local United Synagogue Youth group started its first social action/Tikkun Olam event of the year in the large classroom of the campus, they made brown bag lunches for the Kid Street Learning Center. At 2 PM, I (Gabor Por, the librarian) joined them and lead a discussion under the title of "Is Facebook God?" Fortunately, as I suspected, they were all on Facebook so I didn't have to introduce it to them. We took Maimonides 13 attributes of God and attempted to compare it to Facebook or at least discover connections to it. Most of the nine teens and their group leader seemed to enjoy the conversation which lasted about 45 minutes. At the end they were all keen to take home a copy of the handout (PDF, 105 kb) that listed the attributes and provided one Facebook related idea and a suggestion for each. Rick Concoff, the Chaverim (local multi/non-denominational teen program) director, also joined us for most of the event. To close the day we had an other presentation at 7 PM, this time on "Jewish Learning Online". We started a few minutes late as setting up the projector and copying the handouts took slightly longer than expected. The slide presentation (PDF, 1 MB) consisted of 18 slides, including the cover and 7 screenshots of websites. The handout (PDF, 65 kb) included all the URLs mentioned in the slideshow. The five people who showed up shared some of their favorite sites, particularly in the area that the presentation didn't even attempt to cover: culture. The day in numbers: 28 patrons (9 children, 1 madrich, 7 teens, 2 teen leaders, 4 parents, 5 adults) 8 borrowed items 3 events These may not seem high, but we are a small congregation and these numbers are much higher than our usual Sunday tally. Thank you AJL and HaSafran list members for prompting us to join in the Snapshot Day initiatives, Gabor Por MLIS, Librarian Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library @ Congregation Beth Ami http://www.bethamisr.org/library/ --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.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
