Thank you Michelle. May her memory be for a blessing
If anyone wishes to share thoughts or memories for inclusion in news/reviews, kindly contact me directly. I will not use posts to hasafran without express permission. Wishing you all a peaceful Shabbat. Sally On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 11:17 AM Michelle Margolis via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > Thank you so much for sharing this, Jeffrey. We are so sorry for your > loss, and for ours, as the community of Judaica Librarianship which she so > ably led, both in what is now the RAS division, and then the entire > organization. Elliot, thank > Thank you so much for sharing this, Jeffrey. We are so sorry for your > loss, and for ours, as the community of Judaica Librarianship which she so > ably led, both in what is now the RAS division, and then the entire > organization. Elliot, thank you for your additional remarks. It sounds > like she was quite a force in Judaica Librarianship, and I'm sorry that I > never got to meet her. > > In *Judaica Librarianship*, she wrote lovingly > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ajlpublishing.org/index.php/jl/article/view/301/291__;!!KGKeukY!zyt7BqMHXeaMxu8UXIFU_fadpfwNUWwAK6MGtwLVw7qfrN7MW46zmvBhV7Vc2jLgq77Yqp0QqizUAWOv1wwK$>of > her mentor, Herb Zafren, and indeed, was the one who presented him with his > Lifetime > Membership Award > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ajlpublishing.org/index.php/jl/article/view/1371/1287__;!!KGKeukY!zyt7BqMHXeaMxu8UXIFU_fadpfwNUWwAK6MGtwLVw7qfrN7MW46zmvBhV7Vc2jLgq77Yqp0QqizUAex7__ET$> > in 1990. In 1991 she wrote an important piece on Collection Development > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ajlpublishing.org/index.php/jl/article/view/1297/1213__;!!KGKeukY!zyt7BqMHXeaMxu8UXIFU_fadpfwNUWwAK6MGtwLVw7qfrN7MW46zmvBhV7Vc2jLgq77Yqp0QqizUATKJdZFT$>for > research libraries, and she edited a series on "Pathfinders > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ajlpublishing.org/index.php/jl/article/view/993/909__;!!KGKeukY!zyt7BqMHXeaMxu8UXIFU_fadpfwNUWwAK6MGtwLVw7qfrN7MW46zmvBhV7Vc2jLgq77Yqp0QqizUAbC-qr2f$>" > to guide reference librarians in their work assisting researchers. > > Additional memories can be sent here - to Hasafran, or shared with Sally > Steiglitz (sstiegl...@lilrc.org) for a piece in the AJL News and Reviews > > May her memory be a blessing. > > With best wishes, > Michelle Margolis > President, Association of Jewish Libraries > > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 8:21 AM Elliot H. Gertel via Hasafran < > hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > >> This is so sad. And (to me) unexpected as I had no idea she had been ill. >> I have such fond memories of Linda during her presidency of AJL and after. >> She was the president when I first joined the association in 1990. I also >> used to see her at >> This is so sad. And (to me) unexpected as I had no idea she had been >> ill. I have such fond memories of Linda during her presidency of AJL and >> after. She was the president when I first joined the association in 1990. >> I also used to see her at shul on my visits to Norwalk, Connecticut, where >> she was a member of Beth El, the same congregation of which my mother was a >> member for many years. I will never forget that Linda was always so kind >> to my mom; she was one of several Beth El members who looked out for her to >> make sure she was always comfortable and doing well. >> >> Linda majored in Judaic studies and received her Masters in Library >> Science from the University of Michigan. Among her several professional >> library positions, she was Judaica librarian at Yale. She will be sorely >> missed. >> >> I hope it's OK if I list the link to her obituary: >> >> >> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/thehour/name/linda-lerman-obituary?id=52146685__;!!KGKeukY!1_CjpHIqX7HZ6jV7RpmqNc0KAOJhfwaIqG7UC6bOeFPsv0xlVt3ShavXnywFoF_J4i8pkh8caTfrOqNx5JB_-Xw$ >> >> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/thehour/name/linda-lerman-obituary?id=52146685__;!!KGKeukY!wbzScmem06c3ZepNi_uf6t_7RmqXUi0laP6OeH3Cv0pFyWFXFhJDGftst-K5hRkChoLar8aNRz_RXAIFnigKFQ$> >> >> I couldn't say this any better than the closing words in the above: >> >> “Her positive and loving life force will be missed by all who knew her.” >> >> >> *Elliot H. Gertel* *עלע־הערש גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטל* >> *Irving M. 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