I use Delicious. I proposed some time ago (see appended below) that
AJL members adopt this or a similar service in order to share and
elevate the good quality tags we exchange via HaSafran. A number of
other members use Delicious already. This isn't the only tool or
necessarily the best, but
As I wind into ALA after AJL, I want to add my thanks, appreciation,
awe, and a heartfelt yasher-koyekh to Shoshanah, Cheryl, Rose, the
entire wonderful Chicago Convention Committee, and all who had a hand
in making the 2009 AJL Chicago Convention absolutely
magnificent! Great sessions, wonder
Hello Friends,
Many thanks to Cheryl, Rose, Shoshana, and the rest of the Chicago
team for an amazing convention. It was my first-time attending an AJL
convention and by the time I left I felt I was leaving lifelong
friends. The sessions were amazing. I learned so much - and enjoyed
every mome
We are creating a teen section within our adult library
collection. While I have a pretty good handle on YA books, I am
looking for help identifying adult titles with Jewish content that
would interest and appeal to high school readers - newer,
contemporary fiction and non-fiction as well as o
I am hoping that someone on Ha-Safran can help me to find a recent
Israeli political cartoon. It was described in an article as having
"[President] Obama dressed like a scarecrow with birds shaped as
missiles and rockets, laughing and sitting all over him." Does
anyone know who the cartoonist
Kol hakavod to Cheryl, Shoshanah, and Rose! What a wonderful job you
did! It was a fantastic convention!
I so enjoyed meeting so many of you who stopped by my Sefer, So Good
exhibit. Than you all for your wonderful support. Before I send the
leftovers from the STBA awards and author luncheo
As chair of the Manuscript Award Committee, I hope that some of you
who heard Nechama Liss-Levinson's heartfelt acceptance speech will be
motivated to join the committee.
We currently have one opening but anticipate additional openings next
year. The term is five years. We evaluate 15-20 manusc
I agree with Stephen Bernstein, dropping Dewey is very unwise, as
then you cannot ever reorganize your library in the future if things
change. I use holiday named baskets, and stickers with the holiday
name on each book. Very easy for shelving them back into the baskets.
However all the books a
The Jewish Publication Society (JPS) is proud to announce that The
Jewish Bible: A JPS Guide, has been recognized by the Association of
American University Presses (AAUP) as one of the "Best of the Best"
books in its 19th edition of University Press Books Selected for
Public and Secondary Schoo
Hi everyone,
I am drowning under the weight of my millions of bookmarks.
I have a ton saved to my Mozilla browser. I heard of Diigo and
thought it would be a great way to organize them and access them from
other library computers in order to save them there too, so I signed
up, created a mil
AJLMentoring is now on Twitter, Delicious (and Flickr). Please pass
on useful sites and articles of interest to be posted. More
importantly, if you're already mentoring and have a relationship with
another library professional, why not send along that information to
our committee? AJLMentorin
fyi:
Robert Spencer, Expert on Islam and Director of www.JihadWatch.org,
is scheduled to be on a four-person ALA Panel on Islam, Sunday, July
12, 9-11:30 a.m. . Some are trying hard to discredit and squelch
Spencer in the eyes of ALA members before he speaks.
Dear AJL Friends and other Ha'Sa
If you were at the AJL convention in Chicago and if you took digital
photos, it would be great if you could upload them to flickr or some
other photo sharing site. It would also be great if you could tag
them AJL09 when you do so. Please let us know on Hasafran if you
upload photos and tell us
I'm assisting a faculty member in my university's Communications
Department whoyears agodid his dissertation on Golda Meir's
speaking style. He is curious as to whether his is missing any of
her speeches in his collection and would like to fill in any gaps
that there may be. Does anyone kno
JPS proudly announces a new book:
JPS Illustrated Children's Bible
By Ellen Frankel PhD (author), Avi Katz (illustrator)
Acclaimed storyteller and Jewish scholar Ellen Frankel has
masterfully tailored 53 Bible stories that will both delight and
educate today's young readers. Using the 1985 J
Has anyone used open source library software for any of these vendors: Koha,
Evergreen, NewGenLib, or PMB?
Bill Moody, Director
Rudofker Library, Har Zion Temple
1500 Hagys Ford Road
Penn Valley, PA 19072
610.667.5000
Fax 610.667.2032
rudof...@harziontemple.org
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Dear Sir / Madam,
We are happy to announce the recent publication of the following
titles: (You may use the Links)
Prakmatia - The Marketing System in the Jewish Community in Palestine
during the Mishna and Talmud Era
By Joseph Menirav
ISBN 978-965-226-333-9
318 pp. Hebrew. Hardcover. 2009
List
ALL ELEVEN VOLUMES OF "HISPANIA JUDAICA" ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL FORMAT
Skokie, IL -- Varda Books, the leading publisher of digital Judaica
has announce electronic edition of the acclaimed Hispania Judaica series.
A project of Dinur Center for Jewish Studies of Hebrew University,
published
Hi Everyone!
On Tuesday morning, July 7, 2009, I was at Ben-Gurion airport to
greet the new olim that made aliyah from North America to Israel.
There were 232 olim on the flight including 60 singles (including
22 joining the IDF) and 42 families with 93 children.
The youngest oleh in the group i
Excellent news from the Library of Congress.
Caroline
Caroline R. Miller
Head of Monographic Cataloging
and Authority/Database Maintenance Sections
UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center
BOX 957230
11020 Kinross Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230
E-mail: crmil...@library.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 8
Rachel,
I have read them all, so I know what they say. I also wrote a review
of the first one before I had a chance to read the other five. The
author actually uses Shabbos instead of Shabbat and explains that
it's Yiddish for [the English word] Sabbath. I think that's entirely
appropriate,
Dear safranim:
I have recently had a discussion with an educator (high school level)
who is trying to choose one good book about Jews to assign to her
students. They will be learning about the Holocaust, but she agrees
that young people need to learn there's more to being Jewish than
putting
Colleagues:
I am preparing to sell two substantial collections of books and need
advice on evaluating their worth. Your suggestions will be appreciated:
1. Judaica (est. 1600 volumes). Mostly in English, basic reference
works, Bible and Talmud studies, history, biography, Israel,
literature,
We just received notice that catalog cards are being discontinued by
Marcive. I see now that they've already been discontinued by Library of
Congress. Does anyone know of another service? Are there other small
libraries out there that have figured out a way out of this?
If you've computerized a
Israel Epstein wrote "A Memoir of More than 80 Years in China" and "My
China Eye: Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist," Long River Press, 2005.
He has some other publications also. He was a Jewish, Russian-born
Chinese Communist Party official (and also happened to be married my
husband's aunt at on
There will be a favorable review of the new Rebecca Rubin books, part
of the popular American Girl series, in the Sept/Oct issue of the AJL
Newsletter. Jewish libraries serving kids will definitely want to
have them in their collections.
Linda R. Silver
AJL Newsletter Reviews for Children a
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