My local Chabad wants to organize the books they have and make them
available as a reference collection. We are starting from scratch. Since
I'm a librarian, though in chemistry not Judaica, I'm trying to do some
research on what needs to be done at a minimum.
One of the first questions that came up was how to keep the books from
being borrowed and never returned. No one is going to sit there making sure
people either don't take the books or sign them out. While we're not going
to lock the books up, we would like a way to make it obvious that they are
Chabad's in case someone absentmindedly just puts it on their own bookshelf
at home. Is it even allowed to put a sticker on the binder of say a volume
of Talmud? How do others handle the issue of books being borrowed from an
informal collection?
The other question is the best way to organize and have a record of the
books. Probably formal cataloging is too much to expect here, but what is
the minimal metadata one would need to collect to differentiate versions of
Babylonian Talmud, etc.? Do you need to have the book list in Hebrew or is
transliteration OK?
And last, are there any basic books/materials dealing with these types of
issues?
Thanks so much for any information you can
give me.
Roberta Schoen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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