[ha-Safran] Readers' Resources Online – Book Event lists

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

I thought others might be interested in a service I recently (re)launched
for my temple library, an ongoing list of upcoming online book events and
resources for readers with a Jewish focus:


*https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tbeaptos.org/library/online__;!!KGKeukY!xX_pb4pNQJR5dq8FWn_FTaSz7-QtkRQkdK7Z0L45h-4bZCo1kRnGeFrFIpykwvbHTyK63_XLa9hldUt49_6L82g$
 
*

Though my audience is the local community and there are some  local
resources, the great majority of items are of national (even international)
interest.   I monitor about a dozen different lists and sites presenting
Jewish book talks, readings, interviews and similar content.  Most programs
are available for free, or a nominal fee, though many require advanced
registration.

If you are aware of events or resources you think should be included,
please feel free to contact me.

Please feel free to share it or copy content as you wish.  I will try to
update listings as I discover them but at least once a week.  I have no
means of sending alerts about updates, so it is up to users to remember to
check back periodically to see what's new.

I created and maintained a similar service during the first year or so of
the pandemic as a way to meet our community's needs for interesting
programming and stay engaged.  I was surprised and gratified by the
outpouring of interesting and meaningful programs which became available
during the pandemic, only  shutting down the service last fall when I
thought things were winding down.  (Yeh, right.)  After thinking about what
library services made the most sense going forward and seeing that the
online offerings were still going strong, I decided to revive this
service.

Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos (Calif).
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[ha-Safran] Controversial book

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

I wonder how libraries and other bodies would respond if you showed them a
book with a map where Mexico was labeled as US territory?  Or the Republic
of Ireland was labeled as part of the United Kingdom?  At a time when the
world is watching in horror as Putin is trying to erase Ukraine, people
should understand that these things matter.

Lee Jaffe
Santa Cruz
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[ha-Safran] Tiny library

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

Has anyone experience with a “tiny library” associated with their library
or host institution?  I’d be interested in hearing how it was implemented
and whether it enhanced or detracted from your library service, and how.

Our new synagogue director has proposed installing a tiny library box near
the building entrance. At first I was positive, seeing it as a venue for
off-loading unwanted donated books. Plus, I didn’t want to say no in my
first interaction with the new director.

But the other volunteers raised a lot of concerns about how it would be
managed, that it fall on us to review what was put in there, adding to our
work and potential headaches.

As I considered the proposal further, I asked myself what was the point,
whether this was the appropriate venue?   Why would you place a tiny
library 100 feet from a real lending  library?   The tiny library movement
was a neighborhood initiative, informal sharing, a literary free box.  In
that regard, it doesn’t make (as much sense) outside a real lending
library.

Or does it?  I want to be open-minded and not rain on the director’s
proposal out of hand. If there are good reasons to support this initiative,
ones that augment or complement the library program , or at least not
detract from it, I’d like to hear about it.  Alternative programs are also
of interest.

I appreciate hearing about your experience.

Lee Jaffe
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Re: [ha-Safran] Immigration question

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

I have a patron who is doing some genealogical research. He wants to know
why people did not leave their countries. He is especially interested in
Russia.

First, I recommend the Center for Jewish History, esp. their Genealogy
Center 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://genealogy.cjh.org/__;!!KGKeukY!iH5b2LhmBwJqi9FwSrJmelHFmG3X4OpaS1XNm2rAe0ul10X9pYmNSkivnhOOmO0CdiI$
 .  The librarians there have the resources
and the subject and service focus for answering such questions.  Other
helpful sources include JewishGen.org and the Tracing the Tribe Facebook
group.

Second, while the need to get out of the Pale may seem obvious from our
perspective, the situation was far more complicated and fraught.  While
more than a million did leave, most remained.  There had to be reasons.

I've been researching my family history for decades, most intensively
during the past year, and have been learning a lot about Jewish emigration
from the Pale of Settlement.  (I'm assuming that's what your patron means
by "Russia," i.e. The Russian Empire during the 19th and early 20th
centuries, which included Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus... )

My take away has focused on the flipside of your patron's question; I have
been amazed that anyone undertook a journey which was full of difficulty
and uncertainty.  First off, Jews were very restricted in their movements
within the empire, so much so that it could be difficult to relocate to
another town.  And the border was closed to all but official travel.  You
couldn't simply pick up and leave.  Then there were the difficulties of
travel and entry into your country of choice.  If you could raise the funds
for the journey there was no guarantee that you'd be allowed to enter once
you arrived.   You could be rejected for a long list of reasons, from
suspected eye disease, tuberculosis, and ringworm, or a determination that
you'd become a public burden.   And even if you were allowed in, you'd find
yourself in an alien environment, not knowing the language, having to
rebuild your life from scratch.  Some returned to the Pale because of
failures or disappointments encountered in their new lives.

Add to that all the usual impediments to relocation any immigrant/refugee
faces.  You'd be leaving family and friends behind, never to see them
again, leaving the only home you knew, leaving behind a house and business
and precious possessions.  I've heard over and over about family members
who remained – or even returned – in order to take care of aging or sick
parents and grandparents.   You can see how the equation might be weighted
on the side of staying, rather than leaving.

I've recently translated the obituary for one of my great-grand-uncles who
remained behind in Poland decades after his three brothers had emigrated to
the United States.  He started to make preparations to leave in the 1890s
but he was involved in various civic projects in his town – e.g. founding a
new Hebrew school – which he wanted to see to completion.  Then a series of
crises, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the Russian Revolution and
Civil War, and the chaos of the Polish Republic, prevented him from
leaving.  It took a fire in 1927 which destroyed many homes in the Jewish
quarter of his town, including his own with most of his possessions, to
convince him there was no reason to remain and made aliyah.

I try to imagine what other evidence – other than anecdotal – you'll
discover that may shed light on the case.  I don't think anyone surveyed
the Jews remaining in the Pale, asking  "Why are you still here?" and
compiled it into a report.  (There is An-sky's ethnographic survey but I
don't think that was one of the questions.)  There might be a research
opportunity here to collect letters from home and examine the reasons those
who stayed behind mention.  *A Bintel Brief* often touches on these issues
but through the eyes of those already in the US.  Otherwise, I think
anecdotal evidence is the best we can hope for.

Lee Jaffe, Temple Beth El, Aptos (Calif)

p.s.  Since this is a library forum, some books on the topic ...

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https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/113721/a-bintel-brief-by-issac-metzker/__;!!KGKeukY!iH5b2LhmBwJqi9FwSrJmelHFmG3X4OpaS1XNm2rAe0ul10X9pYmNSkivnhOO2CuSpSk$
 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://yale.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.12987/yale/9780300092462.001.0001/upso-9780300092462-chapter-1__;!!KGKeukY!iH5b2LhmBwJqi9FwSrJmelHFmG3X4OpaS1XNm2rAe0ul10X9pYmNSkivnhOO_BzMm_Y$
 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/karen-hesse/letters-from-rifka/__;!!KGKeukY!iH5b2LhmBwJqi9FwSrJmelHFmG3X4OpaS1XNm2rAe0ul10X9pYmNSkivnhOOF3y4qG0$
 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yivo.org/Dear-Mendl-Dear-Reyzl-Yiddish-Letter-Manuals-from-Russia-and-America__;!!KGKe

[ha-Safran] Peony by Pearl S. Buck

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

Regarding the question from another member (below), my Temple's book group
is currently reading *Peony* for our next meeting June 1.  One member read
it and recommended it.  Then, one of the facilitators read it and supported
the recommendation and when we put it to the members we heard back from
several who had been interested in reading it and others who thought it was
a good choice.

I'm only about 1/3 through it and it's a bit of a slog: its style is dated
and melodramatic for my taste.  I suppose that might reflect not so much
that it was published in the 1940s but that it seems to be trying to
reflect cultures and manners of a 100 years earlier.  More of a concern is
that Buck is writing about the intersection of two cultures, neither of
which is hers.  I haven't read anything else by Buck who lived in China as
the daughter of missionaries which leads me to read her with skepticism.
The synopsis says it is told through the eyes of Peony, a Chinese
"bondmaid" in a Jewish household, and that provides a strong thematic
element, but you also hear the inner thoughts of all of the main
characters.  While a significant part of the story focuses on how the
Chinese servants view the customs of their Jewish masters and mistresses,
there is a considerable thread about tensions among the Jewish characters
about what it means to be Jewish.  That thread seems (so far as I've read)
to address the tension between adherence to  peoplehood and tradition
versus assimilation and secularism.  I think it notable – problematic? –
that for the most part the women in the story represent the traditional
side of the equation while the men largely tend towards secularism and
assimilation.

Let's just say that the characterizations of both the Jewish and Chinese
communities made me uneasy.  It's easier for me to articulate what about
the Jewish part makes me uneasy – though still difficult to be precise –
while my discomfort with the Chinese part is based more on my ignorance of
the culture and a subsequent inability to judge the portrayal.  Let's just
say that I'd be more comfortable with a narrative that tries to explain
cultures as Buck does in *Peony* where the author was part of at least one
of the communities portrayed.   To answer the original question, I wouldn't
recommend putting this on a reading list for Asian-Jewish relations because
of its questionable authority about Chinese culture.

Lee Jaffe, Temple Beth El, Aptos (Calif.)

From: Petite Safranit 
To: hasafran@lists.osu.edu
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Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 08:41:04 -0400
Subject: [ha-Safran] Peony by Pearl S. Buck
Would Pearl Buck's *Peony* be acceptable for this coming month's reads? Has
anyone read this lately?  (*Peony* (or *The Bondmaid*) is set in the 1850s
in the city of Kaifeng, in the province of Henan, which was historically a
center for Chinese Jews. The novel follows Peony, a Chinese bondmaid of the
prominent Jewish family of Ezra ben Israel's, and shows through her eyes
how the Jewish community was regarded in Kaifeng at a time when most of the
Jews had come to think of themselves as Chinese)


On 5/10/21 4:11 PM, Heidi Rabinowitz via Hasafran wrote:

In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian Pacific American
Heritage Month (both May), The Book of Life podcast has an interview about
the Jewish Chinese family in the middle grade novel Not Your All-American
Girl (the companion to This Is Just a Test). I spoke to co-authors Madelyn
Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang about how they write together, about
racial justice, and about hula hoops.
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[ha-Safran] Yizkor book question

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

Sally, et al.,

Most yizkor books. written originally in Yiddish and Hebrew mostly, haven't
been translated or only partly translated.  The main repositories for
original editions are through the NYPL and the Yiddish Book Center (noted
in earlier replies):

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/yizkor-book-collection*/__;Iw!!KGKeukY!l33QlA2dt1z54PrJ1HrmqU8D91EoXAmk2a4aaSSrDSkWbmpYhZ-6Gibejt2uhW2sb5U$
 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yizkor-books__;!!KGKeukY!l33QlA2dt1z54PrJ1HrmqU8D91EoXAmk2a4aaSSrDSkWbmpYhZ-6Gibejt2u8r_yv8s$
 

As noted, translations are being undertaken piecemeal, through volunteers
and/or funded through donations.  This work is being coordinated through
JewishGen.org's Yizkor Book Project, where you can find a list of books and
availability of translations:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/__;!!KGKeukY!l33QlA2dt1z54PrJ1HrmqU8D91EoXAmk2a4aaSSrDSkWbmpYhZ-6Gibejt2ur-6w62A$
 


Another approach to this question is through JewishGen's Town Finder.  A
search for Lipcan brings up a link to the community information page with
links to various resources, including the yizkor book translation project.

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-2276778__;!!KGKeukY!l33QlA2dt1z54PrJ1HrmqU8D91EoXAmk2a4aaSSrDSkWbmpYhZ-6Gibejt2uWlUYMro$
 

These sorts of questions come up in Jewish genealogy circles quite often
and the go-to source in almost every case is JewishGen.org.

Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos (Calif)
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tbeaptos.org/library/genealogy__;!!KGKeukY!l33QlA2dt1z54PrJ1HrmqU8D91EoXAmk2a4aaSSrDSkWbmpYhZ-6Gibejt2uX-3i718$
 


From: Sally Stieglitz 
To: Hasafran 
Cc:
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:39:05 -0500
Subject: [ha-Safran] Yizkor book question
Dear Safranim,
Hope you are all well. I have a question about finding digitized online
translations of a Yizkor book, Lipkan fun amol (Lipcan of Old)

I've only seen two or three chapters of the book in English online.

My grandfather was born Lipkan, Bessarabia. If there are any other
Lipkaners out there, hey landsmen!

Thanks for suggestions,
Sally





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[ha-Safran] online literary resources

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

I've started compiling a Web page with links to Jewish literary events and
resources available online.  I'm not only the Temple librarian but also
facilitate the Temple's book group and was sending out irregular notices as
the came to my inbox. After doing this for a few weeks, I decided to
compile sources in one place instead.

https://www.tbeaptos.org/library/cororna

(My apologies for the typo in the URL, but the link address is correct as
shown.)

The focus is local – with some links to our local
PL,  independent bookstore and Temple programs – but most of the links are
of general interest.  (I've copped a few entries from sources posted here.
Thanks for sharing.). Feel free to copy and share as you see fit.

Lee Jaffe, Temple Beth El (Aptos)

p.s.  If you are associated with any of the East Coast-based institutions
(YIVO, JBC ...) please remind them that there is a 3-hour time difference
and that an 11am EDT event means 8am in this part of the world.
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[ha-Safran] Help with Weine Classification System

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

I've replied to Martin directly, as requested, but in the process of trying
to research resources for his question, I tried to look at the "Members
Catalogs" page (https://jewishlibraries.org/MembersCatalogs) on the AJL
site and got a message that the page was restricted.  I'm logged in to the
site as a member, so I was wondering what's going on.

Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos

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> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 08:57:11 -0700
> Subject: [ha-Safran] Help with Weine Classification System
> *I received the following question via our website, please reply to Martin
> directly.*
>
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> As a volunteer member, I am trying to catalog about 400  books, all on
> Jewish related subjects, donated to the library of Temple B’nai Torah,
> Bellevue, WA.  I have read through the “Weine Classification Scheme and
> Relative Index”, 9th edition, enough to believe I might take 40 years to
> get though this stack!  Does an on-line index exist such that I could get
> the Weine Classification by referencing a book title or number, perhaps an
> ISBN?  I would appreciate your suggestions.  I am not a librarian by
> training..
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Martin
> Martin A. Seelig
> 206-601-8919
>
>
>
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Re: [ha-Safran] Portuguese citizenship for Sephardic descendants

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

We just had a young woman doing research in our library trying to establish
Spanish ancestry and I imagine that the useful tools and methodology are
similar to Annette Goldsmith's case.   We had several books she found
useful:

Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World

Jeffrey S. Malka
Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic

Stanford J. Shaw

Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel

Mathilde A. Tagger


Lee Jaffe

Temple Beth El, Aptos (Calif)



> From: Annette Goldsmith 
> To: Hasafran 
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:08:13 -0700
> Subject: [ha-Safran] Portuguese citizenship for Sephardic descendants
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have been asked for help by a young woman who is trying to build a case
> for citizenship in Portugal. She needs proof of a connection to the Iberian
> peninsula, and Portuguese descent is even better.
>
> Do you know of anyone who could do some paid genealogical research to
> prove her ancestry and then write a report of their findings that can be
> submitted as part of her application?
>
> Here are two informational links that she shared with me:
>
> www.embassyportugal-us.org/portuguese-sephardic-jews-descendants/
>
>
>
> http://www.comunidade-israelita-porto.org/resources/pdfs/Portuguese_Nationality_for_Sephardic_Descendants_English.pdf
>
> Please feel free to share this with anyone you think might be interested.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Annette
>
> --
> Annette Goldsmith, PhD
> Librarian, Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, Los Angeles, CA
> Chair, Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) 2020 Translated YA
> Book Prize Committee
> Currently reading: *It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of
> Hope*; story by Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet, poems by Hope Anita Smith, with
> illustrations by Lea Lyon (Christy Ottaviano/Henry Holt, 2019)
>
>  "A book is like a world you can carry around with you." Liniers,
> *Written and Drawn by Henrietta*  (TOON Books, 2015)
>
>
>
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[ha-Safran] Collecting and cataloging invitations (Daniel Stuhlman)

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

Just because you mention the physical storage challenges, I'd definitely
consider the scanning option.  I managed a pamphlet collection – so-called
"vertical file" – in a public library and the challenges in storing so many
smaller items, and keeping them in order, caused us to constantly question
whether the value of such a collection was worth the effort.  An
inexpensive bulk-feed scanner that does double-sided color scans would make
short work of even a large collection of paper invitations.  You might even
get future hosts to send you the original digital files, avoiding a step.

The scanning option avoids so many of the key hurdles in organizing and
maintaining a physical collection – sort order, preservation, missing and
mis-shelved items – and a rudimentary cataloging scheme would allow you to
instantly retrieve items by date, type of ceremony, names of any
participants, possibly in combination (e.g. weddings in Tevet 5776).

Whether you integrate these records into your main catalog or not depends a
lot on what your catalog system will support and whether you have an
alternate second venue that would support a separate database.   Our
catalog has the ability to insert a clickable external URL in the
description field that would allow us to point to another site for a second
catalog.  I can see where a "dummy" record in the main catalog – say
"Wedding Invitations" – could provide basic info about the scope of the
collection and would link out to the appropriate site.

Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos



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> Is anyone collecting bar/bat mitzvah and wedding invitations?
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> I have a cataloging question -- I am thinking of collecting Bar/Bat
> mitzvah invitations. I'm trying to think of ways to bulk catalog them. That
> is not catalog each item, but still have information so that I can check
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[ha-Safran] Southern Palestine and Jerusalem (1882)

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

We have a copy of this book available to a library (within U.S. only,
please) for the cost of shipping and handling.  The full citation is

William M. Thomson, D.D.
*Southern Palestine and Jerusalem : The Land and The Book or, biblical
illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery,
of the holy land.*  (volume 1).
New York : Harper & Brothers, 1882
xx, 592 pages, 34 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, folded maps
; 24 cm.


The book is in good condition.  Pages appear unmarked and the covers and
binding are in good condition (though there are some library labels and
stamps).   Note: the book is heavy and large and shipping costs may be
substantial (est. $25).

If you have a place for this in your library's collection, first-come-first
served.

Lee Jaffe, Temple Beth El, Aptos (CA)
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[ha-Safran] Positive thinking?

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Harold Kushner
Shmuely Boteach

Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos

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Subject: [ha-Safran] Is there a Jewish Norman Vincent Peale?
Any recommendations for a patron looking for book(s) on positive thinking,
in Judaism?
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[ha-Safran] No. 49 . HaMaftir המפטיר פרשת תבוא

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If anyone is collecting these pamphlets and would like this number, I'd be
glad to send it on to you at no cost  This copy is in fair condition;
faded, stained cover, rusting staples, and some damage from removing
labels, but pages are clean and unmarked.  First come first served.

Lee Jaffe
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[ha-Safran] Historical fiction about rise of Fascism

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I don't know know if this meets your criteria exactly but For Two Thousand
Years by Mihail Sebastian, written and published before World War II,
describes rising fascism and antisemitism in Romania during the 30s. It was
has only been translated and published in English.  Told from the
perspective of a secular Jewish University student,it exposes the roots of
nationism, fascism and antisemitism, and explores Jewish responses.  It's
especially poignant in appearing before the War and the Holocaust, and
because of the author's personal history.

Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos

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Re: [ha-Safran] Younger Borrowers

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

To Rachel, et al.,

I was stunned by the tone of approbation used in answer to my message.  As
I said in my summary, I can see how other libraries may design their
services differently depending on their circumstances.  I'd expect
colleagues to extend the same understanding and professional courtesy to
me.

My purpose in initiating this thread was in seeking practical advice from
colleagues in extending borrowing to minors. I received responses –
eventually – from only 5 members of the list.  Two addressed my question
about requiring adult sign-off before registering minors.  The others
responses took me to task for our decision to set an age limit and, in one
case, was especially harsh in misunderstanding our proposal.  Not only did
I receive far less help than I hoped, but found myself attacked and held up
for ridicule for something I didn't say.

We are all struggling to provide important services with limited resources,
often without the understanding of the ins-and-outs of library concerns
from our home institutions. That is why organizations like AJL and lists
like this are so important; they give us a venue to share and seek
support.  And that is why exchanges like this are so discouraging.  I'd
like to ask – even beg – that if any of you find yourself "struggling to
fathom" why another library does things differently than you do, that you
first give your colleagues the benefit of the doubt and presume that  they
have their reasons, even if they are not clear to you.  Perhaps a more
careful reading, with a generous spirit, will reveal something that
resolves that struggle.   However, if the sense of struggle persists, or
even feels urgent, you can always ask for clarification and try to
understand how their situation determines a different solution than your
own.

Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos

On Oct 21, 2018 12:39 PM, "Andrea Rapp"  wrote:

What Rachel said.  We do exactly the same.
Children are entered into our system along w their parents names and
contact info, and that’s all we need if a book is long past due.  Grades
1-6 come to library time with their class and of course we encourage them
to check out books.  There are reading incentive programs for each grade.
That’s how to get circulation in religious school.
   I probably got some of these program ideas from a Rachel, have been
doing them for years.
Andrea Rapp, Wise Temple, Cincinnati.

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On Oct 21, 2018, at 1:47 PM, Rachel Kamin via Hasafran <
hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:

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

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Re: [ha-Safran] Younger Borrowers

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

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"  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 able to share.  If you want to reply directly
to me, I can try to summarize responses for the list.

Thank you,

Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos
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[ha-Safran] Younger Borrowers

[Lee Jaffe via Hasafran]

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 able to share.  If you want to reply directly
to me, I can try to summarize responses for the list.

Thank you,

Lee Jaffe
Temple Beth El, Aptos
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