Re: [ha-Safran]: Yeshiva-Appropriate YA fiction

2009-12-14 Thread Ruth D. Bryskier
Have you looked at chinuch.org? If you sign in and search for Secular Book List you will find some good information: Description: Newly updated as of September 2009! List of over 2000 secular children's and young adult books with notations for acceptable, unacceptable and questionable. There

Re: [ha-Safran]: Berlin libraries research books stolen by Nazis

2008-09-23 Thread Ruth D. Bryskier
I sent them a large list of relatives names just in case they find anything from my family. I'll keep you posted if anything interesting develops... Ruth Bryskier Milwaukee, WI Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed

[ha-Safran]: Classification of Holocaust Denial Literature

2004-11-24 Thread Ruth D. Bryskier
Chaverim, As I posted before, I am in the MLIS program at UW Milwaukee and am working on a paper for an Intellectual Freedom seminar and am very interested in how Holocaust denial materials are cataloged. I see there was quite a bit of literature on this in the 80's and 90's but I have not been

RE: [ha-Safran]: JCPA Plenum

2004-11-21 Thread Ruth D. Bryskier
I will look some more, but the JCPA website has links to past JCPA Plenum, but only back to 2002! I would think if you contact them they would have the archival information: http://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/ Kol tuv, Ruth Bryskier Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of

RE: [ha-Safran]: Intellectual Freedom topic question

2004-11-03 Thread Ruth D. Bryskier
Thank you all so much for the many good suggestions. I have a lot of good topics to look into now. Does anyone know the name of the librarian's organization that is working on the spread of misinformation about Israel on college campuses? Does anyone know anything about it? Thanks again! Ruth

[ha-Safran]: Intellectual Freedom topic question

2004-11-01 Thread Ruth D. Bryskier
Shalom, I am a new student member of AJL and an MLIS student at UW Milwaukee and am taking a seminar on Intellectual Freedom. I have been reading some articles about the classification of Holocaust denial materials in the Library of Congress and see that this was a topic of great concern in the