[ha-Safran] Cool Google Doodle - Eliezer Ben Yehuda - father of modern Hebrew

2013-01-06 Thread Jacob Richman 
Hi Everyone!

Today's Google Doodle is really cool.
http://www.jr.co.il/t/doodles/index9.htm

I included on the page a short bio video and the video of
Matti Caspi and Chava Alberstein singing "Eliezer Ben Yehuda"

Enjoy!
Shavua Tov,
Jacob


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[ha-Safran] Online Catalog

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Ingram 
The library committee of the Bendiner Library of Temple Beth El is
researching the possibility of upgrading its search catalog so that it can
be viewed online. What experiences have other libraries had with making its
catalog available online. Was the monetary investment worth it? Has it
resulted in an increase in use of the library by members?

Your comments are appreciated.

Thank you.

Mark Ingram
Chair, Bendiner Library Committee
Temple Beth-El
San Antonio, Texas
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Re: [ha-Safran] Fw: Where Are the Books at the NYPL?

2013-01-06 Thread Toby Harris 
This makes me want to cry!


Toby Harris, Librarian
Temple De Hirsch Sinai
1511 E. Pike Street
Seattle, WA  98122
206-315-7398 Seattle
206-323-8486, Ext 7481  Bellevue

Visit our online catalog at http://lib.tdhs-nw.org
Library Hours:10:30 AM-1:30 PM, Wed, Bellevue;   1-6 PM Thur, Seattle;  
9:00-12:30 Sun,  both
Over 10,000 Judaic books & CDs
Temple Website:  tdhs-nw.org




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[mailto:hasafran-bounces+tharris=tdhs-nw@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On 
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Subject: [ha-Safran] Fw: Where Are the Books at the NYPL?

http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/168626/where-are-the-books-at-the-nypl/

January 3, 2013, 5:00am
Where Are the Books at the NYPL?
By Jenna Weissman 
Joselit

Crossposted From Under the Fig Tree
[http://forward.com/image/2/290/0/5/assets/images/articles/blog-nypl2-010213.jpg]

Remember the plaintive Pete Seeger song, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” In 
the wake of a recent research trip to the New York Public Library, I’m inclined 
to sing a similar song of lament about the fate of the book and call it “Where 
Have All the Books Gone?”

The much-bruited about renovation of this storied library has been in the news 
a lot lately, generating considerable 
controversy
 along the way. Its champions insist that relocating millions of volumes to an 
off-site storage facility will result in a new and improved library, one that 
meets the challenges of the digital age head-on. Its detractors insist that’s a 
lot of hooey or, worse still, that the library’s plan sounds the death knell 
for serious scholarship.

Until now, I found myself in the middle of these two camps, cautiously adopting 
a wait-and-see attitude. But no more. So dreary, alienating and downright 
disheartening was last week’s visit to the New York Public Library that I now 
cast my lot with the naysayers.

It wasn’t that this grand institution was forlorn and abandoned. On the 
contrary. Throngs — and I mean throngs — of people walked its glorious halls, 
giving adjacent Times Square a run for its money. And the place, bedecked with 
lights, ribbons and greenery galore, was an absolute delight to behold.

Alas, the business at hand — conducting research — was something else again. In 
one division of the library, the distance between the reading room and the 
stacks is now so great that it takes an inordinately long amount of time just 
to obtain a book, let alone read it. In another division of the library — the 
reference room, no less — the shelves that once contained the standard 
reference tools I now needed were glaringly empty. Where did they go? When it 
came to their whereabouts, even the generally knowledgeable reference 
librarians had no clue; a digital search also came up empty-handed.

As did I. Having spent the better part of an afternoon at the New York Public 
Library, I didn’t have much to show for my efforts and left its precincts 
feeling churlish rather than uplifted. What a contrast with the experience of 
earlier generations of patrons who, heartened by their encounter with the 
“wonder-world of books,” penned expressions of gratitude. One, from 1903, 
exuberantly put it this way: “I send you as many kisses as there are pennies in 
the world.”

I wish I could say that in 2013.

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[ha-Safran] Thanks to all about the Weine classification system

2013-01-06 Thread Emily Goldberg 
Just wanted to thank everyone for  responses to my inquiry about
classifying short stories under the Weine system.  The information you
shared was helpful.  We are thinking of following the approach that
classifies short stories by one author as fiction and short stories by
multiple authors fiction short stories, shelving the latter adjacent to the
fiction collection.

Thanks again.
Emily Goldberg
Mowshowitz Library
Hillcrest Jewish Center
Flushing, New York
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[ha-Safran] status of AJL website?

2013-01-06 Thread Sukenic, Harvey 
The AJL website seems to be down?  Any updates on its status?

 

Harvey Sukenic
Library Director
Hebrew College Library

hsuke...@hebrewcollege.edu



 

 

 

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[ha-Safran] Continuing closing my business

2013-01-06 Thread SeferSoGood 
 
As many of you may know, I’m gradually closing my business, but I  still 
have a fairly large inventory to sell.  Please contact me if you are looking 
for  titles other than those listed below, for ANY AGE, but I'll continue 
letting you  know, season by season, topic by topic, what I still have in 
stock.   
Now that the rush of Hanukkah is over, make sure your  library is well 
stocked.  This is  the third SALE offering – TAKE 35% OFF YOUR TOTAL!  (If you 
missed the first two, see the  Sale Lists at the end of this list.)  Shipping 
will be based on total amount  purchased – the more you buy, the better 
your shipping deal – email or call with  your order and I’ll calculate the 
shipping.  Quantities are limited and only in-stock  books will be sold – no 
backorders – so don’t wait.  Please note that I can’t accept charge  cards, 
but checks are fine.  Thank  you and best wishes for a happy, healthy, 
peaceful secular new year. 
Debbie  Colodny 
Sefer, So Good
1141 Garfield Av.
Libertyville, IL  60048
847/680-8016
_www.sefersogood.com_ (http://www.sefersogood.com/)
YOUTH FICTION SALE 
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Award Winner $6 
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