Thank you very much.
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 1:43 PM Hindishe Lee wrote:
> *Dear Maxine – *
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> *I would recommend: *
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> *Mishneh Torah – A new translation *
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> *by Rabbi Eliyahu Touger*
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> *Moznaim Publishing Corp.*
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> *NY/Jerusalem 1999*
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One of my patrons is looking for a book that has English and Hebrew side by
side to study of Maimonides Mishneh Torah. I found one or two on-line
sources that were eminently readable, but they would prefer hard copy.
Thank you
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
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Has anyone heard of this book? It is in neither Avi Chai or LOC listings,
and in GoodReads, it was damned with very faint praise as poorly written
and difficult to read.
On Eagles' Wings
An Untold story of the Magic Carpet
Captain Elgen M. Long
ISBN 9781523651856
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
That's about what we dealt with last year.
--First, we had a book sale for the congregation.
--Then, we set up an account with Better World Books, and sent them a list
of titles to their antiquarian section. They are taking books with ISBNs,
but only some. We may make some money out of that.
I'm looking to update the archaeology section of our library, since at
least in magazines and on-line articles, there seems to have been some new
findings and works=-in-progress.
We do have some by Moshe Dayan from the 70's, but I'm interested in titles
a bit more recent.
L'shanah Tovah to you
We did a major weed last summer. One of my volunteers, a retired librarian,
has been going through the list of deaccessioned books, and linking them to
our on-line catalog from the Internet Archive.
I don't know if this is possible with Google's books, but it might be worth
a shot as well.
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 <
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> Any theories on why this is happening, I,e. dwindling support for
> synagogue libraries? Circulation must have been dropping off by
I second Aileen's recommendation. We have a set of these, and I'm debating
if I have enough in the funds to purchase one of them that is falling apart
(bad binding, pages falling out).
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
Temple Emanu-El
99 Taft Street
Providence, RI 02906
401-331-1616 Ext 18
How do you conduct a physical inventory of a library? Print out the entire
catalog, and check off what books are on the shelf, out on loan or just
plain missing? This has not been done in the last 9 years that I've been
involved with the library, and keep running into books that are in the
A Sunday school teacher who I know, who is trans, has just brought up a
concern about the cross-dressing costumes of Purim. She is very averse to
the concept, and it makes her upset to see people making it out to be a
great joke.
The book that drew her concern was "Purim Play" by Roni Schotter.
This book has me stumped.
Whence My Help Come
Caregiving in the Jewish Tradition
Kestenbaum, Yisrael
ISBN 9789657344606
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
Temple Emanu-El
99 Taft Street
Providence, RI 02906
401-331-1616 Ext 18
Was it possibly "Seeking Safety" By Judith Eichler Weber?
ISBN 9780615564135 pub date 2007
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
Temple Emanu-El
99 Taft Street
Providence, RI 02906
401-331-1616 Ext 18
We have notations for Oversize, Reference, Children's, and a few other
collections, but we've recently added a collection of books that will be in
our archive area. Is there a commonly used term for this category? If so,
what might it be.
Thank you
Maxine
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If your budget allows, the Koren Talmud Balvi would be an excellent
addition. While it does include Hebrew, the amount of description and
graphics make it more approachable to less scholarly folks.
Maxine Wolfson
Providence, RI 02906
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 7:24 PM Michelle Sandler via Hasafran
We have a section in both the children's bookcart (up to age 6/7) and
Juvenile (7-9) that is labeled Holocaust. The older children's section is
set up by Elezar numbers and fiction. At one point we had the Holocaust
fiction separated and labeled as such, but now, we have those fiction
stories in
The Koren Talmud Balvi is illustrated, and well worth the price.
Maxine Wolfson
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Check with any neighboring Holocaust centers to see if they are interested.
Also, I've been referred to Better World Books in the past, but I'm not
sure what their requirements are.
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
Temple Emanu-El
99 Taft Street
Providence, RI 02906
401-331-1616 Ext 18
There used to be a page of libraries that use the Elazar classification
system. I'm having difficulty finding it on the AJL member website.
Is it still available?
I'm training a Hebrew-literate person to enter books in our on-line
catalog, and hoping to find resources for her to use.
Thank you!
The day school attached to our shul has a Little Free Library. I generally
recycle the children's books that are weeded out, or the ones that are
donated. There seems to be a pretty good turnover.
I could ask the school if there have been any problems associated with it,
if you wish.
Maxine
Does anyone have the following book in their library, and how do you assign
it? I'm using Elezar, and am not sure if it belongs in history, biography,
or somewhere else:
Stephen S. Wise
Servant of the People
Selected Letters
Ed. Carl. H. Voss
Thank you for any help you can provide.
Maxine
If you have the book, or if there is an on-line source for
Elezar cataloging information, in the front of the book is a guide to how
to figure out what number should be assigned to the book. That was how I
learned to assign the numbers.
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
Temple Emanu-El
99 Taft
Does anyone have it? It was posted by Lisa Silverman back at the end of
October.
TIA
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
Temple Emanu-El
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During this closure, I've been doing maintenance and cleaning in the
library.
Something I've noticed in several sets of reference volumes, is that we are
missing 1 or several volumes. Checking the on-line catalog, they have not
been there for at least 8 years.
Some are Talmudot, some are
There is a text file for elezar? Where would i find it? I've been using it
manually for years.
Thank you
Maxine
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 5:31 AM Jacqueline Benefraim via Hasafran <
hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
> Shalom!
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> Here is another email I received from our friends in Australia who
What do people do with unwanted donations? I have a box of all-Hebrew (to
the point where I can't even tell you what they are) books someone dropped
outside the library door. No name. there is an 11 volume Hebrew dictionary
(we have one on the shelf) but many of the others are a mystery.
Books
Does someone have a source for Jewish-themed graphics for children's
library corners? We have a cart and several shelves for the various books,
and are trying to make the area more attractive to the children.
Thank you
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
Temple Emanu-El
99 Taft Street
Providence,
One of my congregants has asked for a tikun, which she says has the
parachute side by side with English, cantillations? She was not clear,
and I cannot find anything like that on-line.
Does anyone know of a Comservative, Ashkenazi version of this that they
could recommend?
Thank you,
Maxine
We have a cart where we put any donated books that we don't want to add to
our collection. The sign says "Free, or make a donation to the library fund
or temple". Remarkably, I rarely have to geniza or throw out books on that
cart, regardless of how strange or esoteric the topics.
Maxine Wolfson
The vast majority of public and private librarians
I've met and dealt with are untiringly courteous
even with the most difficult patrons.
Did she describe the steps she took to get to the
print queue? If not, she was definitely in the wrong.
Maxine Wolfson - Rosen Library
Temple Emanu-El
Glad that I took the time to read your blog entry. Our rabbi just received
a request from the chaplin of a prison
system that is looking for books on basic Judaism and also prayer books.
I'm pretty sure they would be thrilled
to have a dozen or 20 0r more older siddurim or chumashim in usable
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