Re: [ha-Safran]: JNUL becomes National Library of Israel - II

2008-07-27 Thread Susan Dubin
Congratulations to you and the Library. May you go from strength to strength. Susan Dubin AJL President Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)

[ha-Safran]: JNUL becomes National Library of Israel - II

2008-07-25 Thread elhanan
On Nov. 26th, 2007 the Knesset passed the National Library Law which set up the legal framework for changing the Jewish National and University Library from a department of the Hebrew University into the National Library of Israel. Yesterday (July 23, 2008) the president of the Hebrew University

[ha-Safran]: JNUL becomes National Library of Israel

2007-11-26 Thread elhanan
Yesterday (Nov. 26th) the Knesset passed the National Library Law which formally establishes a National Library of Israel. While the Jewish National and University Library has served as the de facto national library (of the Jewish People since the early 1900s and of the State of Israel since its