First, I'd like to thank everyone involved in putting together this year's convention. It was a tremendous amount of work and a great success. There was one small matter that I think could be improved upon in future conventions and I wanted to get some feedback from everyone else while the convention in still fresh in our minds.
While the shaharit minyanim were very well organized, there were no preparations made for minhah or ma'ariv. Because of this, we had people scrambling around, trying to informally organize times and locations to daven. For some reason, the ad hoc minyan tended to gravitate towards meeting in front of doorways, in the path of hotel staff or guests causing unnecessary inconvenience and potential hilul Hashem. Perhaps I'm being overly sensitive, but this was my impression. At times, we were able to meet in empty meeting rooms, but I am not sure if we had permission from the hotel to use these rooms at the time. All of these problems could be easily solved by providing a time and place for the minyanim to meet. If space is an issue, perhaps the 2 minyanim could meet together for minhah and ma'ariv. It's possible that my concerns are exaggerated and that this bothered me more than it bothered others, but on the other hand, it can only benefit AJL, the minyanim, and our relationship with our various convention centers to have minhah and ma'ariv better organized in the future I'd like to hear everyone else's impressions. Again, thank you to everyone involved in making this convention a success. Next year in Cleveland! Daniel Scheide Catalog Librarian S.E. Wimberly Library Room 103A 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431-6424 Tel: (561)297-0519 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
