The Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the web launch of our new online catalog. The combined library and archives collections of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute may now be searched via a link from the Center's home page, www.cjh.org.
>From the Easy Access menu in the lower left corner of the CJH home page, clicking on "Search the CJH Catalog" will bring you to Basic Search. Advanced Search, Browse, and search history are also available from links across the top of the page, as well as a Basket function for printing, saving, and/or e-mailing a list of items you select during your search. In Basic Search, you can search the entire catalog at once, or limit your search to a single repository. In Advanced Search, you can also limit your search by language, year, and/or format (archives/manuscripts, books, or journals/periodicals). >From the list of search results, clicking an item number in the left-hand column brings you to the full record for the item. Clicking on a Repository link in the list of search results brings you to a screen from which you may place a hold request for the item. However, before you can place any hold requests, you must fill out an online form to register for a library card. Many catalog records for archival collections include embedded links that will bring you directly to the online finding aids and searchable databases that were previously available only through the Center's web site. See, for example, the catalog entry for AJHS's Industrial Removal Office records (Collection I-91). The catalog also contains links to a growing number of digital images from the various collections. For example, you can now access online hundreds of photographs from the Leo Baeck Institute's Albert Einstein Collection (AR 136). The "CJH Resources" link at the bottom of each screen connects you to a page with links to a variety of external electronic resources. This catalog is the product of several years' intensive work by teams of library, archives, museum, and information technology professionals in the U.S. and Israel, and was made possible by a major grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). We encourage you to give us your feedback on the catalog by using the Comments link, which may be found at the bottom of each screen. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (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: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
