Hello Everyone, My name is Jenny Schnoll and I am a new AJL member and new to Hasafran. I am an LIS student at University of Toronto and a member of Congregation Darchei Noam, the Reconstructionist Congregation in Toronto. Darchei Noam will be moving into a new building in the Fall and I have undertaken to help them get their Library started, while achieving a credit! I have received some material from Debbie Stern regarding building a Reconstructionist collection and plan to order Susan Frieband's set on Collection Development in Smaller Judaica Libraries. We will probably be using Weine as a classification system. I would like to ask you about software. Can anyone in a smaller synagogue library suggest a good user-friendly software package? I have looked at Mandarin (which is used by a couple of groups in Toronto because you can catalogue material in Hebrew). I have also had a look at the Sagebrush system and I was online looking at Surpass and liked their interface. I would aprreciate hearing from anyone who is using these systems or others and any recommendations for a start-up library with little money, probably run by volunteers. Any other words of wisdom would alos be appreciated. Thanks
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