Hello,
My synagogue is non-denominational with about 200 member families. I
receive a stipend (~$2000/yr) to run the library; I set my own hours and work
anywhere from 3-10/hrs a week depending on the time of year. We have about
6,000 books (including about 1500 children's books), but very, very little
media.
We automated several years ago and also use ResourceMate for its web
catalog, but circulation is still by bookcards. The Library budget consists of
paying yearly dues to AJL, yearly tech support for ResourceMate and for any
office supplies that I need, for example labels and a stamper to mark books as
property of the synagogue, so about $300-$350/yr. There is no budget for
books. All of our adult books are donated. My focus for purchase is on
children's books as they are the ones that are most often used (by the
Religious School, the Preschool and the Summer Camp). For children's books,
about $100/yr comes from the Religious School's budget; for additional
children's books I do multiple fund-raisers (used book sales, requests for
B'nai Mitzvah families to donate a book off our "wish list", classroom tzedakah
projects during Jewish Book Month, etc.)
Judy Petersen
Library Director
Congregation Har Shalom
Fort Collins, CO
-Original Message-
From: Michelle Sandler
To: Carol Janoff
Cc: hasafran ; Lee Jaffe
Sent: Sat, Jul 7, 2018 10:20 pm
Subject: [ha-Safran] Library Budget
My library is in a reform synagogue in Westminster California. 2200 books, 100
DVD’s, Videos, CD’s etc. I receive no budget. I was given $900 to automate
the collection and then another $400. I use ResourceMate. The rest of the
funding comes out of my pocket. The library is finished so I pay $280 out of
my own money for upkeep of ResourceMate and to put it on the web. We have a
library endowment fund which never gets used.
Michelle Sandler MLS
Librarian
Beth David
Westminster California
Sent from my iPod. Humorous or nonsensical autocorrects are a "feature".
On Jul 4, 2018, at 5:11 PM, Carol Janoff wrote:
Temple Chai in Phoenix, AZ, is officially Reform, though we bring in traditions
from conservation and even Orthodox. The library, just under 7000 volumes,
has no paid staff. I replied already about funding; I have been spending
around $1000 per year on books ( I buy primarily used copies of
well-recommended books) and supplies. We are not automated. I haven’t seen
numbers in the last year, but I think we have around 850 member families.
I have no idea what we will do when our bequests run out in 3-4 years.
Carol Janoff
From: Hasafran On Behalf OfMicah Salb
Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 1:29 PM
To: Lee Jaffe ; hasafran@lists.osu.edu
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Hasafran Digest, Vol 338, Issue 2
It would be great to hear also how much money each shul spends on staff and
books for the library in addition to the source of funds. And also the number
of families and “denomination”.
Our shul is about 300 families Orthodox. We have no paid staff. Annual budget
allocation of $3,000 per year plus we keep any revenue from sale of books.
Micah Salb
From: Hasafran on behalf of Lee Jaffe
Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 2:52:05 PM
To: hasafran@lists.osu.edu
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Hasafran Digest, Vol 338, Issue 2
Our Temple provides no regular budget for the library. We have an
all-volunteer, very-parttime staff. At times we've managed to get a little
money ear-marked for library in the annual budget to cover some recurring
costs, such as our catalog service's annual fee. And we've gotten one-time
allocations to cover special projects. Otherwise we depend upon donations to
the Library Fund, one of the categories available on the Temple's donation
page. We sometimes can sell unwanted book donations for credit at local
bookstores.
Most recently, we were very lucky to get a significant cash gift that has given
us a comfortable nest egg that will last us a few years. I think it worth
mentioning that this came through an initiative by our Temple's development
team, where they developed a "prospectus" of gift opportunities to use with
targeted "asks." I heard about this plan and wrote a proposal for the library,
describing the backlog of books we had on our wishlist and how much money we'd
need to put us on a good footing. The development team found a donor who liked
our proposal and we got the funding.
Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos (Calif)
To answer a question from a board member about other synagogue libraries’
sources of funding, we would greatly appreciate a few words from you at other
synagogues, as to where yours comes from. Are you given funding by the
synagogue, or do you rely on contributions to a designated fund among the
choices for donors? Both? Do you use another source entirely? We are only
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