Re: [ha-Safran] Is your synagogue library open on Shabbat?

2016-08-02 Thread Larry Yudelson
At my former medium-sized Conservative shul, there was a index card box with cards for every member family. When checking out books on Shabbat, you would take your family's card and clip it to the book cards. After Shabbat the librarian would ender the check-outs into the computer system. Larry

Re: [ha-Safran] Is your synagogue library open on Shabbat?

2016-08-02 Thread Joshua Jasper
Hi all, My synagogue library is open on Shabbat, but it is not staffed by a librarian on the weekends. We're a medium-sized library in a large Conservative synagogue. I was just hired a month ago, and the interim librarian began this experiment about a month before I began. It is very much still

Re: [ha-Safran] Is your synagogue library open on Shabbat?

2016-07-18 Thread Emily Bergman
We're open on Shabbat, but we're Reform. I just figure I have to catch people when they're around, which is Shabbat and Sunday school. I know other congregations have dealt with the writing/computer issues in creative, simple ways. If people want to use the library I don't think we should say

[ha-Safran] Is your synagogue library open on Shabbat?

2016-07-18 Thread Kaiya Goldhammer
Every year or so a congregant or service attendee requests that the library have Shabbat hours. Things worth note: we are a Conservative shul, synagogue expectations on technology use and writing on Shabbat are clear, the library has never been open on Shabbat, there are computers in the