Dear colleagues, For those of you who may not be updated about the current status of "Kiryat Sefer", Israel's long-standing national bibliography, I am pleased to report that it is now freely available online.
Following the decision to cease publishing the quarterly in printed form at the end of 2003, the JNUL has resolved to widen the usage and functionality of this bibliographic tool. Not only is it constantly augmented (rather than at quarterly intervals) as a base (QSF) within the main JNUL catalogue, but it now covers non-print materials (including electronic resources) and, with the projected conversion to Aleph-500, will include Arabic language publications also. We hope to implement other ideas for the development of this database in the near future, in order to provide full bibliographic and timely information on the latest Israeli and Judaica publishing output. The Browse function enables searching indexes of names, titles and Kiryat Sefer subject categories. Other options for keyword searches are also available. Users are invited to visit the site simply by clicking on the Quick Link at the Jewish National and University Library website at www.jnul.huji.ac.il Comments will be welcomed by the Kiryat Sefer team (a link is provided from the "Information on Kiryat Sefer" page). Best wishes, Rosalind Duke Deputy Director, Jewish National & University Library Hebrew University of Jerusalem Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram Jerusalem 91390 Tel.: 972 2 6585017 Fax: 972 2 6511771 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
