Re: [ha-Safran] Synagogue library in an orthodox shul?

2021-12-30 Thread Michelle Chesner via Hasafran
Thanks, Leah and Daniel! I'm pulling together a list here: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b_xRbskKudSqM-rNAqgno-g6IZ4WxepKMkDt0ZqTRHw/edit?usp=sharing__;!!KGKeukY!mNvRIUHwnuzXVkYf6zRP4C3HVtJTbLYJFVKzjEEqY3-iDcnf0OTppLZmjwwo4K3PpGE$ Leah, is the one at Beth Ora

Re: [ha-Safran] Synagogue library in an orthodox shul?

2021-12-30 Thread Leah Cohen via Hasafran
Hi Daniel, Michelle, I know that it is ancient history but in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Jewish Public Library (of Montreal ) had a library branch at Congregation Beth Ora, a Modern Orthodox congregation, in what would have been at the time a new suburb called St. Laurent. The books were

Re: [ha-Safran] Synagogue library in an orthodox shul?

2021-12-29 Thread Daniel Stuhlman via Hasafran
I belong to two Orthodox shuls. Both have large collections of books. One has a room that is called "Library." I would not call these collections "libraries" because they have no catalogs, no person in charge, no collection development policies, etc. They never asked for librarian expertise

[ha-Safran] Synagogue library in an orthodox shul?

2021-12-29 Thread Michelle Chesner via Hasafran
Dear Colleagues, Someone asked me if I knew of any orthodox synagogues with a library that could use some support. I know that many synagogues have bate midrash in various capacities, but I don't know of any with a librarian (I know some yeshivot and day schools have, but this particular question