[ha-Safran] Webinar: (Library Advocacy & Marketing) Delivering Community Value: How to Make Yourself Indispensable for Small Libraries

2016-01-12 Thread Stephanie L Gross
Providing exceptional library service on a small library budget and staff size presents special challenges, but also unique opportunities to meet core community needs. In this webcast series, a combination of live and on-demand presentations funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,

Re: [ha-Safran] FW: In Age of Google, Librarians Get Shelved

2016-01-12 Thread Kuperman, Aaron
1. If a library is focused on giving people books, they should go the way of lawyers who never heard about civil rights law or doctors who never heard of antibiotics or engineers who never heard of plastic. There are many librarians who let their skills atrophy and are not quite comfortable in

[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: The Parting of the Ways: How Esoteric Judaism and Christianity Influenced the Psychoanalytic Theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung (Richard Kradin)

2016-01-12 Thread Academic Studies Press
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Parting of the Ways: How Esoteric Judaism and Christianity Influenced the Psychoanalytic Theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung

Re: [ha-Safran] FW: In Age of Google, Librarians Get Shelved

2016-01-12 Thread Nancy Poole
First, I agree with the point that Mr. Barker is making about salaries and so-called library assistants. However, the library school portion of Mr. Barker's argument is misleading. I collected data (part of a research project ) on the on the schools that dropped the MLS programs or closed. This

[ha-Safran] Elementary books about use of wine

2016-01-12 Thread Michal H. Malen
I received a rather odd request and maybe someone has an idea -- a nonfiction book on a lower elementary school level explaining why we use wine in rituals. Thanks, Michal Malen mhm1...@aol.com__ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not

[ha-Safran] In Age of Google, Librarians Get Shelved

2016-01-12 Thread Ann Abrams
My response to this article is to suggest that you read the book I suggested last week: Biblio Tech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by Jonathan Palfrey. And, I was fortunate to attend the ALA conference in Boston this weekend, and heard Jonathan Zittrain from Harvard Law

[ha-Safran] New title at Bar-Ilan University Press -They Too Are Called Human Gentiles in the Eyes of Maimonides

2016-01-12 Thread Press Office
Dear Librarians, Please be informed of the new title published by Bar-Ilan University Press : They Too Are Called Human - Gentiles in the Eyes of Maimonides By Menachem Kellner In the Series: MAHSHAVOT ISBN: 978-965-226-469-5 260 pgs. Hebrew . Hardcover. 2016 Please use the Link for