The Israel Center for Digital Information Services (MALMAD) is
pleased to announce the availability of a new user interface to the
Israel Union List (ULI). This interface is based on the open source
VUFIND system used by many libraries throughout the world. It
includes a modern graphic user
Louise Leonard wrote: I'm looking for a quote (In Hebrew and English) to post
on a large upper wall in my library. Any suggestions?
Here's one I'm fond of:
My pen is my lyre and my harp; my library is my garden and my orchard.
It's by the medieval poet Judah Halevy.
Fred Lerner
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Is there a cumulative index (for the last 10 years or 5 years) to
reviews in the AJL newsletter? Are there any indexes?
Bernice Lieberman
Sinai Temple Library
Champaign, IL
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Louise,
We used Ibn Tibbon's : Make books your companions... The full quote
can be found in the Treasury of Jewish Quotations.
Dr. Yaffa Weisman, Director
The Frances-Henry Library
Adjunct Associate Professor
Modern Jewish Studies
HUC-JIR, Los Angeles
www.huc.edu/libraries/la
213-765-2170
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Two people asked me to report on my Paris library visits. They have
been more wonderful than I could have imagined. First, let me say
that they all share a common catalog, using Aleph from Ex Libris
called Rachel:http://www.rachelnet.net/rachelnet/index.htm. You can
search their catalogs
I'm forwarding this from one of my vendors, SayFair Book.
They are having several sales right now, including
this: http://www.sayfair.com/Sale/sale.htm and below.
Ann Abrams, Librarian
Temple Israel, Boston
Unfortunately the attached table can not be sent to Hasafran.
--The Hasafran
At our library, I weed fiction meeting these criteria:
last borrowed over ten years ago
borrowed three times or less, all together
not a work by a major Jewish writer
The last criterion is subjective. If I consider a book important as
a Jewish literary work, I keep it, even if it has not been
I am trying to some research on 3rd Seder Haggadahs
The earliest I have seen are from late 1950s or early 1960s
Does anyone know the origin of the 3rd Seder Haggadahs?
Which oppressed communities they were produced for?
So far I have seen
- For Soviet Jewry
- For Jews in Arab Lands
- South
Dear safranim,
There are two library-related contests going on that I thought might
interest you, or kids you know, and your/their participation would
be a wonderful way to promote your library!
1) Why I love my library, for children 13 years old and
younger:
For those of you who have visited AJL's page on Facebook
(http://facebook.com/jewishlibraries) and clicked the Like button:
Have you been seeing the Association of Jewish Libraries' status
updates in your news feed lately? If not, it's because when Facebook
switched to the new profile (the
(view online at http://www.danwymanbooks.com/scripture.htm)
Dear Friends,
We are proud to make available to you this wonderful exhibition
catalog from the Jewish Theological Seminary Library here in New York:
Rustow, Marina and Sharon Liberman Mintz and Elka Deitsch. Curators:
Scripture and
Dear ha-Safran subscribers,
As you all know by now, the AJL Newsletter which was previously
printed on paper and distributed by mail, is now split into two
separate electronic publications which will be posted online only.
The current issues are Vol.1, No.1 for each title.
Please see the
Looking for the cover of the June-July 2005 issue of Hadassah
Magazine (uses the cover of Rabbi's Cat 2).
If anyone can e-mail a color scan to me, please let me know.
Thanks!
B'shalom,
Steven M. Bergson
(working on a presentation on Jewish women in comics for the AJL
convention in June)
February 7, 2011
Association of Jewish Libraries
P.O. Box 1118
Teaneck, N.J. 07666
ajl...@osu.edu
212-725-5359
I have a collection of books on Judaism and related topics
inherited from my parents. These books were published
between 1933 and 1993. I want to give them
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