At 14:44 08/03/03 -0400, you wrote: >Our congregation in South Portland, Maine is in the process of discussing >the building of a new building. We are currently housed in an old public >school building, which is really far too small for our synagogue's needs. >One of the questions which we discussed at a recently Building Committee >meeting was how to set up the library in our new building.
All of your ideas are great. You should be talking to your members. There are good arguments for having separate libraries and good reasons to have one. There are good reasons to make the room a Bet Midrash and reasons to keep the room quiet. DS Daniel Stuhlman Chicago, IL 60645 ddstuhlman @ earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/liblob.htm =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org

