Safranim -- I sent an unsolicited review to Daniel & Merrily this week. It's a piece on "In the Garden of Beasts," the bestseller by Erik Larson on the American Ambassador to Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s.
I'm still pondering the question whether or not to add it to my synagogue library (which uses Elazar). But if I do, I won't use the LC classification to place it. The book lists a designation of E 748, which puts it in American 20th Century history. But for my/our purposes, that doesn't make much sense. If it's a Judaica book (which I discuss in the review), my sense is that it should go into German history. And while it's about Germany, it's not strictly a Holocaust book. Therefore, I'm probably going to put it in Elazar 761.5 (Germany, 20th Century). I'm putting this out in advance of the review being released, as I think some people may have received or purchased copies. I also wonder how many times we discover that books simply don't fit into our schemes the same way they do in Public or academic libraries. Fred Isaac Temple Sinai Oakland, CA --- 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
