Re: [ha-Safran] Diagram of the Canon

[Diane Romm via Hasafran]

You may want to look at Eliezer Segal's image maps at:

https://people.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/InterAct.html

Diane Romm
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Re: [ha-Safran] Younger Borrowers

[Rachel Kamin via Hasafran]

I’m struggling to fathom why any school, synagogue or community center library 
that maintains a circulating children’s collection would create obstacles that 
would prevent children from checking out books.  Why do you need an OK from a 
responsible adult?  My children check out library books from their public 
school library and I have never been asked to provide consent.  It is part of 
the curriculum.  I would doubt that day school librarians require parental 
consent to use the school library. I’m not sure why a supplemental Hebrew 
School ay a synagogue (or JCC) should be viewed any differently.

As I wrote to Lee privately, children at our synagogue begin checking out books 
from the Library starting with the 3-year-old preschool classes and continuing 
with all of the religious school classes PK-7th grade.  At the beginning of the 
school year we enter all of the students into our system. We also send home a 
letter to the parents, letting them know their children will be checking out 
books, explaining the library program, and inviting them to visit with their 
children to check out even more books.  During the 2017-2018 school year, 
religious school students checked out 540 items and our preschool students 
checked out 911 items.  Over 98% were returned before the summer.  Close to 
1500 hundred Jewish books went into Jewish homes – this is what we are all 
about.  I consider the loss of a couple dozen books each year the cost of doing 
business.  Moreover, most of the missing books are eventually found or 
returned.  (I also look at it as natural weeding!).

I really discourage you from creating lots of rules and policies.  It will just 
make more work for you and make the library less inviting, less accessible, and 
less used!

Feel free to contact me if anyone has any questions or wants to discuss 
further.  I am also happy to share our circulation policies.

Rachel Kamin, Director
The Joseph and Mae Gray Cultural & Learning Center
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El
847/926-7902 or rka...@nssbethel.orgmailto:rka...@nssbethel.org>

Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9am-2pm and Wednesday 4-6 pm & 
Sunday 9am-12pm (when school is in session)

From: Hasafran [mailto:hasafran-bounces+rkamin=nssbethel@lists.osu.edu] On 
Behalf Of Lee Jaffe via Hasafran
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2018 6:56 PM
To:  

Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Younger Borrowers

Per my earlier note to this list (copied below) I promised to summarize 
responses I received.  I heard from three colleagues, reporting their 
experience and opinions about adding younger borrowers to our temple library's 
lending service.

The responses were unanimous that we needed the ok of a responsible adult for 
accountability.

Regarding a cut-off age for lending, their as a wide range of opinion. One 
library allows children as young as preschoolers to borrow books, while the 
others suggested 13 as the minimum age. In retrospect, I can see how libraries 
might differ on such points depending on their circumstances. Since our library 
is unstaffed most hours and we use a self-check system, we cannot expect 
younger children to manage the process on their own.

Next, I plan to bring our proposal to the Temple school staff to initiate the 
process.

Thanks for the help.

Lee

On Oct 11, 2018 1:00 PM, "Lee Jaffe" 
mailto:leejaff...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I'm seeking the "wisdom of crowds" in order to plan how to expand lending 
privileges to young adults in our congregation.  Currently only adult members 
are enrolled in our online borrowing system but we've reached a point that we 
feel we can expand the borrower base to include young adults.  I have no 
experience with school or children's  libraries and am hoping members of the 
list can answer some questions and/or share insights about points I've missed.

- Do we need adult sign-on a) for permission to add minors to the lending 
system and/or
b) to establish responsibility for 
items borrowed?

- How do you determine eligibility?   Hebrew high students?  Post-B'nai 
Mitzvah?  Anyone over 13?

Any other considerations?

I should mention here that our lending system uses email address as the key 
field.  This means that each enrolled member must furnish a unique email 
address.  Young adults would need to provide their own email address to be 
added to the system with their own account, or they could borrow items on their 
parents' accounts.  In other words, not enrolling them separately does not deny 
them access to the collection.  But they have more autonomy if they have their 
own account.

Last, I plan to confer with the rabbi and staff who oversee the Temple school 
to coordinate this initiative.  I hope to hold an introductory class session in 
the library as part of the enrollment process. But I'd like to have a plan – 
one that benefits from this list's collective experience – before broaching the 
topic.

I appreciate whatever you are 

[ha-Safran] Fwd: TO DESTROY JERUSALEM ON NETGALLEY

[Hasafran via Hasafran]

Subject: TO DESTROY JERUSALEM ON NETGALLEY
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 08:29:30 -0700
From: Howard Kaplan  
To:


Dear Jewish Libraries,
My new novel, TO DESTROY JERUSALEM now has free review copies available to
librarians.  I am the author of 5 Middle East Novels, one of which, THE
DAMASCUS COVER has been filmed starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Sir John
Hurt as well as seven Israeli actors.

My website:
http://www.howardkaplanauthor.com

Netgalley link to the new novel
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/149536

Best,
Howard Kaplan
Los Angeles
310-228-8633
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[ha-Safran] The Girl with the Red Balloon on Book of Life Podcast

[Heidi Rabinowitz via Hasafran]

*The Girl with the Red Balloon*
,
a magical time travel, historical fiction, kind-of-sort-of Holocaust book
that won a Sydney Taylor Honor in the Teen Readers Category for 2018, is
now featured on The Book of Life Podcast. I met the author, Katherine Locke
, at the Association of Jewish Libraries
conference

in Boston, where we snuck into a side room to talk – please excuse the
faint hubbub coming from outside. We discussed not only Katherine’s book,
but also her article on Medium.com, “Thinking about Jewish Children’s
Literature in a Time of anti-Semitism

.”

Check out the podcast interview here:
https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-girl-with-red-balloon.html


Please feel free to share the links with fellow lovers of Jewish or
historical or fantasy literature for teens!

Heidi Rabinowitz
Host, The Book of Life
www.bookoflifepodcast.com
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