Re: [ha-Safran]: Yeshiva-Appropriate YA fiction
Have you looked at chinuch.org? If you sign in and search for Secular Book List you will find some good information: Description: Newly updated as of September 2009! List of over 2000 secular children's and young adult books with notations for acceptable, unacceptable and questionable. There are extensive comments on most books as well as suggested grade levels. There are three versions of the list: complete list of all books with comments, approved list with comments and approved list without comments. There is also a Classics Analysis List. Cover letter also includes the criteria for evaluation. Kol tuv, Ruth Bryskier Milwaukee, WI --- 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
Re: [ha-Safran]: Berlin libraries research books stolen by Nazis
I sent them a large list of relatives names just in case they find anything from my family. I'll keep you posted if anything interesting develops... Ruth Bryskier Milwaukee, WI 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[ha-Safran]: Classification of Holocaust Denial Literature
Chaverim, As I posted before, I am in the MLIS program at UW Milwaukee and am working on a paper for an Intellectual Freedom seminar and am very interested in how Holocaust denial materials are cataloged. I see there was quite a bit of literature on this in the 80's and 90's but I have not been able to find much in the way of recent publications. I read in a San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage article from July of 2001 that the CA. Library Association was involved in a campaign to persuade the Library of Congress to more correctly utilize catalog terminology. I see that the efforts were successful, but I haven't been able to find out much after this date. I see that the DDC in the 22nd edition, 2003 added 940.531 818 Holocaust Denial and the LC has a number of categories under D 804.35 and 804.355 in the 2001 edition. If any of you could address the following questions it would be very helpful: 1)How did this change in the library standards come about? 2)What has the reaction been to the revised call numbers? 3)How widely are they being used? 4)Have the deniers themselves had any reaction to this? Thank you so much for your insights and reactions! Ruth Bryskier U Wisconsin, Milwaukee 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
RE: [ha-Safran]: JCPA Plenum
I will look some more, but the JCPA website has links to past JCPA Plenum, but only back to 2002! I would think if you contact them they would have the archival information: http://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/ Kol tuv, Ruth Bryskier 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
RE: [ha-Safran]: Intellectual Freedom topic question
Thank you all so much for the many good suggestions. I have a lot of good topics to look into now. Does anyone know the name of the librarian's organization that is working on the spread of misinformation about Israel on college campuses? Does anyone know anything about it? Thanks again! Ruth Bryskier 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Intellectual Freedom topic question
Shalom, I am a new student member of AJL and an MLIS student at UW Milwaukee and am taking a seminar on Intellectual Freedom. I have been reading some articles about the classification of Holocaust denial materials in the Library of Congress and see that this was a topic of great concern in the recent past. I also see that the Library of Congress has now added a number of classifications for works that fall under this subject area. Originally I was thinking of writing a paper for the class on this, but I don't see much research in this area since 1999. Is this still an area of concern for Jewish librarians? Is there another subject that would be more appropriate right now for an intellectual freedom seminar? Thank you so much for any suggestions you might have. Kol tuv, Ruth Bryskier 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
