When working on cataloging items that had received a National Jewish Book Award or a Sydney Taylor Book Award I noticed that when you manually insert the 586 MARC tag for "Awards Note" OPALS provided a drop down menu of various book awards so that you can just select the award you want to insert it into the record. No surprise, none of the Jewish awards were listed there. I contacted OPALS support and asked them to include both of the above awards and the AJL Jewish Fiction Award in the list. Within an hour I heard back from them that all three of these Jewish Awards have now been included in the list. This makes entering the information into the catalog record easier. The list is alphabetical and you have to scroll through it to find them. I thought other OPALS users would be interested in knowing that OPALS has made them available in the drop down list.
Sherry Wasserman, Volunteer Librarian Congregation B'nai Moshe West Bloomfield, MI 48322
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