Books About Books: The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf with Dr. Marat Grinberg
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET / 8:00 pm Israel Time
The study of Soviet Jewish culture and collective psyche presents a fascinating
yet still little-known subject of inquiry. Frequently subject to quotas an
Any theories on why this is happening, I,e. dwindling support for synagogue
libraries? Circulation must have been dropping off by a lot, no? I see it also.
Andrea
> On Jul 11, 2023, at 10:07 PM, Carol Janoff via Hasafran
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> This is happening to my temple library too. We have s
AJL was planning advocacy for our library members and non-members, but, it is extremely difficult. Amalia W. Sent from my iPad On Jul 12, 2023, at 8: 01 AM, Andrea Rapp via Hasafran wrote: Any theories on why
AJL was planning advocacy for our library members and non-members, but, i
I've been lucky; though my budget is miniscule compared to some, I've worked to
get the library integrated into the religious school curriculum and it gets
great traffic during the school year. And because we are a small shul in a
small community, the library is considered a major asset, an attr
Feel free to be in touch with me directly with any questions!
My best,
Michelle
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If our library is any indication, lack of use would be the main reason.
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 8:03 AM Andrea Rapp via Hasafran <
hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
> Any theories on why this is happening, I,e. dwindling support for
> synagogue libraries? Circulation must have been dropping off by a
Here is an informative report by Dan Pine of the J - Jewish News of Northern
California, on the recently announced separation of the Jewish Community
Library of San Francisco from its long-time parent agency, Jewish Learning
Works (formerly the Bureau of Jewish Education). From the article:
On
Michelle,
I don't know the ReSourceMate catalog program. Is there a way you can remove
the catalog records of the books you are not keeping in a batch process, and
not have to do so one by one? Are there barcodes on the books that you can scan
into a file and then upload them to the library sys
The question is why, why the decline? Our branch public library says their
circulation is high as ever.
Andrea
> On Jul 12, 2023, at 10:47 AM, Maxine Wolfson wrote:
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> If our library is any indication, lack of use would be the main reason.
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>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 8:03 AM Andrea Rapp
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The demand for books is diminished. "everything is online."
> On 07/12/2023 10:40 AM EDT Amalia Warshenbrot via Hasafran
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> AJL was planning advocacy for our library members and non-members, but, it is
> extremely difficult. Amalia W. Sent from my iPad On Jul 12, 2023, at 8: 01
A similar thing happened with the Jewish Community Library of Baltimore,
which had been part of the Center for Jewish Education.
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Except wisdom.
The demand for books is diminished. "everything is online. " On 07/12/2023 10:
40 AM EDT Amalia Warshenbrot via Hasafran wrote:
AJL was planning advocacy for our library members and non-members, but, it is
extremely
The demand for books is diminished. "everything is online.
Dan Cohen, Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, Dean of the Libraries,
at Northeastern University, who was the keynote speaker at the AJL Conference
in Boston in 2018, wrote an article in the Atlantic in 2019 that got a lot of
attention, "The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wa
Grants are what Federations seek, free books. PJs. A new purpose. The old model
they closed down when they jettisoned the Baltimore Hebrew
College/"University."
One cannot fairly compare Federation initiatives to synagogue libraries which
also service adult populations. Temple Emanu El in NY,
I have worked at two Reform synagogue libraries in Seattle. The first cut
back librarian hours to the point of ridiculousness back in 2017 and still
has no librarian. The other had me remove 1/3 of their collection to change
the library to a multi-use room. All both needed, in my opinion, was more
Circulation numbers are quite fungible, as we all know. A significant
amount of current circ in public libraries is now online. So the numbers
there are up, but the physical objects aren't there.
This leads to the broader topic of digitization. We've been dealing with it
for the past 40 years (fir
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