I got a call from a friend of a friend who lives in Brighton, MA, and had
about 100 books-- many were chumashim and siddurim -- in a storage unit
that was flooded, and he needs to evaluate their worth. Most were quite
badly damaged by the flood.
Does anyone know anyone in the Boston area who
This thread raises some interesting issues that haven't been noted.
While lots of movies have been transferred to more current formats and
streaming -- and there's an enormous amount of new material available --
there may be some that are not. And some smaller libraries may not have
funding for
It's true, no one wants videos (I literally can not give them away at our
annual book sale). I would keep anything that has historical value for your
institution and convert it to a more modern media. Otherwise, for a fee try
GreenDisk --
"We will be hosting a data rescue session focused on identifying and archiving
data and sites for music collections at cultural heritage institutions in
Ukraine which may be at risk during the attack and invasion by Russia. The
session will occur on Saturday, March 5, 2022 (time TBD).
If you
We have a situation here where oral histories were stored on tapes (audio only)
and I was having a hard time finding a way to get one to a congregant who
wanted hear his aunts’ interviews. It turned out that we did have these on
hard drives, but even these were difficult to access. Our IT
hem all including the furniture case that
> they were stored in and tossed the entire thing.
>
> I think that's basically the future for these collections even if there is
> good-or even-rare material. Most people don't have the equipment and are
> more likely to stream than insert a piece of plastic or car
Last summer we actually paid for a service to come to the synagogue to pick up
and recycle over 700 pounds of VHS tapes, audio-tapes, and CDs that had been
collecting dust and taking up space in the library, schools, offices and
storage closets. It wasn’t cheap but I felt confident that NOBODY
Hi:
Could you please post this announcement.
Thanks,
Zvi Erenyi,
Gottesman Library,
Yeshiva University
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to Ba’al Shem Tov, Peninnah Schram --Professor Emerita of Speech and Drama,
Stern College for Women—has
Dear all,
March is here and AJL has put together a series of great events (check your
emails for your AJL Invite!).
Among others, I'd like to point you to two exciting events organized by the
RAS Division:
*Thursday, March 3, 2022, 4:00 pm PT/7:00 pm EST: AJL Presents:
Celebrating Women’s
Dear Andrea and members of HaSafran:
To be devil's advocate, we've just digitized a DVD because its contents
were wanted by a patron, there was no DVD release, and there was also no
library-friendly or non-paywalled digital release available.
So to me, it would depend on content, as VHS are known
When I was at a Center library 10 years ago I got rid of all the VHS's.
People were just not using them, and most people even 10 years ago didn't
have a VHS player.
Currently I'm a public librarian and we do not have any VHS's, we have
plenty of DVDs that circulate and actually plenty of audio
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