I'm in public schools these days and Accelerated Reader is a major
player in our school for promoting reading and evaluating student
performance. Renaissance Learning now has an online version and more
and more schools will be using the online version as we will very
shortly. All the tests
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
Kol Hakavod! This is a major breakthrough for Jewish librarians
everywhere, who have to do original cataloging. May I suggest you
offer a workshop and/or online PowerPoint on using the z39.50 capture
tool. I think there are still many librarians out there who are not
comfortable with
I am no longer in the field but after spending 30 years working in
Jewish libraries and having attended several AJL conventions, I still
like to stay connected through Hasafran. I don't read all the
messages. I look at the subject headings and decide which to
open. I find that most postings
(I'm passing on this request from Scott Elkan.--posted by Evi
Reznick, Atlanta, GA)
Hello All:
I am the new director of Hillel at Georgia State and Kennesaw State
Universities. I am looking to equip both universities with a reading
library for students (both to read on their own and to learn
I'm not talking about AJL setting up an endowment fund. I'm
suggesting that AJL set up a committee that will brainstorm the idea,
get Federations and grant contacts involved, raise the consciousness
that institutional Judaic libraries are important to Jewish life and
they need special
I've come to the conclusion it's not about lack of awareness of the
benefits of a library or inadequate public relations. The principals
and executive directors in most cases recognize the value of
libraries. The problem is MONEY--the lack of adequate financial resources.
The institution has
Personally, I don't trust Follett. They are buying up all the library
software companies and they have redone their software program
several times and then made people pay extra to get into the new
program. I spoke to them at the National Education Computer
Convention and they tried to show me
I'm glad to see all the comments regarding this issue. My comments
may seem random but they address the different comments and letters
both posted on Ha-Safran and sent to me personally. Eli Wise's
comment as well as comments by Susie Dubin and others do an
outstanding job of stating that AJL
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