[ha-Safran]: Large synagogue Libraries

2008-06-19 Thread Kathy Steinberg
Per Andrea's request and Amalia's repsonse: I am planning to attend the roundtable for librarians of Center and Synagogue from 3:45pm to 4:45 on Monday and am happy to stay longer to network with other librarians from large synagogues. Kathy Steinberg Congregation Emanuel Denver Messages and

[ha-Safran]: Hebrew date for your Firefox browser

2008-06-19 Thread books2gogh
A great tool for your Firefox Internet browser is Hebrew Calendar 1.0.4.73 The link is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1379 It shows the Hebrew date and when you "mouse over" it shows the secular date and this week's Parsha. You have to set the correct lattitude and longitude

[ha-Safran]: Online Hebrew Bible dictionary

2008-06-19 Thread agendler
[Message modified by the moderator] There are several placing where one can find very incomplete Hebrew Bible dictionaries online. The most complete electronic edition of Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gessenius Hebrew and English Lexicon in existence (online and off) can be found in Varda Books' new Juda

[ha-Safran]: Library Thing

2008-06-19 Thread swimjak
I have used Library Thing for my personal collection for FREE, as well as my 77 year old mother, so it is definately easy to use. As soon as you post a title, it brings up the various editions to choose from, and it's easier to find matches for titles than OCLC. I have two caveats, I'm not sure

[ha-Safran]: 2 questions [and 1 answer]

2008-06-19 Thread Shulamis Landesman
1)Where can I find an online perpetual Jewish/Gregorian calendar which includes Torah Readings in the Diaspora? [From the Moderator] See: http://www.hebcal.com/converter/ 2) I'm looking for catalogs which list children's books (all subjects) by age group (e.g. 0-2; 3-5; etc.) Thank you. Shulam

[ha-Safran]: AJL Election

2008-06-19 Thread Ronda & Fred Rose
On behalf of the nominating committee It is my extreme pleasure to announce that the 2008-2010 Slate of Officers have been elected. They will be sworn in Cleveland at the General Meeting. Congratulations to our new officers Susan Dubin - President David Hirsch - Vice President/ President Elec

[ha-Safran]: A note to Synagogue and Center librarians who

2008-06-19 Thread Warshenbrot, Amalia
plan to attend the convention X-Original-To: hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 X-Spam-Score: 1.30 (*) [Tag at 5.00] MISSING_SUBJECT X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin .

[ha-Safran]: Nikud

2008-06-19 Thread Nachum Zitter
A useful link for those who need to add nikud to text: http://www.snopi.com/ptp/PTP.asp The site automatically punctuates up to 160 hebrew characters, but this function can be used only once a day. More useful is the plug-in nikud toolbar, which effectively allows much faster nikud, although hav

[ha-Safran]: Large synagogue libraries

2008-06-19 Thread Andrea Rapp
I know it's really last minute to propose, but would any of you who are librarians of large synagogue libraries (say 12k volumes or more) want to meet in Cleveland? I would be interested in sharing ideas to increase the usage of our wonderful resources, including among non-members and the

[ha-Safran]: Ingram Library Services question

2008-06-19 Thread Barbara Mende
We received a letter from Ingram Library Services. The letter indicated that to maintain an account, we would have to go through Ingram's electronic funds transfer (EFT) procedures. Therefore, we would appreciate knowing if these are the conditions under which you operate with Ingram Library Se

[ha-Safran]: Web2.0 @ AJLCleveland2008

2008-06-19 Thread Stephanie L Gross
Two suggestions: 1. Could we please adopt “AJLCleveland2008” as our social bookmarking tag? 2. Do people use Twitter? I noticed that ALA Anaheim has set up an account for members to use at their convention. Great going, Tina, with the blog! Looking forward to seeing you all in a few d

[ha-Safran]: Middle East Strategic Balance 2007-2008 (PDF download)

2008-06-19 Thread David Elazar
Safranim shalom: For your information. David Elazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.geocities.com/d_elazar (home page) The Middle East Strategic Balance 2007-2008 Tel Aviv: The Institute for National Security Studies, 2008 Heller, Mark A., ed. http://www.inss.org.il/upload/(FILE)121

[ha-Safran]: RAS Digitization Committee at Convention

2008-06-19 Thread James Rosenbloom
Hello. I would like to remind you that the meeting to officially establish the RAS Digitization Committee will be at 4PM this coming Sunday at our convention. This meeting is not only for potential committee members. Everyone who is interested in contributing ideas about what our long term a

[ha-Safran]: LibraryThing

2008-06-19 Thread Rose Myers
I've recently discovered LibraryThing, a Web 2.0 tool that lets you catalog your books online, tag them and share them with the world (but only if you want to). It's $15 annually for non-profit libraries and less for personal ones. It searches Amazon.com or the Library of Congress and provides