Israeli Book Statistic - Hebrew Book Week 2007 The Hebrew Book Week 2007 will take place in Israel on June 6-16. Towards this event the Jewish National and University Library (JNUL) reports annual data about books published in Israel during 2006. The JNUL is the deposit library of Israel, and receives, according to the "Books Act", two copies of each book, journal, cassette or disk published in Israel.
During the previous year 8,680 new Israeli titles were registered by the Legal Deposit Department of the JNUL: 6,866 books, 1,141 new periodicals, and 673 non-print titles, such as CDs and cassettes. In additions, 14,015 issues of current periodicals were received in JNUL. The JNUL catalogue is the most comprehensive in Israel, and includes the vast majority of the titles published in Israel. For more data see <http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/lgd-statistics-2007.html>http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/lgd-statistics-2007.html Rivka Shveiky Legal Deposit Department The Jewish National & University Library POB 39105 Jerusalem 91390 Tel. 02-6586286 Fax 02-6586315 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
