Joan, Let me answer your question with a question or two. What sort of multimedia collection do you already have? What are your needs? What would you like to do?
At Main Line Reform Temple in Wynnewood, PA, a Reform synagogue wiwth over 1000 families, we received a gift for $30,000 to establish a multimedia collection: large print books, CDs, fillms, books on tape and CD, sound cassettes etc. Half of the money was put into an endowment. the multimedia collection anmed in honor of the donating family with a plaque noting their generous contribution. Depending upon the situation, you may want to aks them if funding a multimedia versus large print book collection appeals to them. You may want to write, or revise, a collection policy covering multimedia as part of the process and share it with them. They might want to specify what percentage of the large print or multimedia budget should go for differing formats or leave that up to you. In my experience people who come into the library to borrow Judaica multimedia over time tend to borrow books, and vice versa. Audio books seemed to be more popular than large print books. Whatever you and they decide, publicize it at every opportunity. Marc Levitt Former Librarian Main Line Reform Temple Wynnewood, PA 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
