Kol ha-kavod to all of the librarians involved in this project!
Debbie Stern From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Kiron Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Fwd: piecing together the fragments of the Cairo Genizah - NYT Dear Safranim, This is a wonderful achievement and Prof. Choueka deserves all the credit in the world for developing and implementing the advanced computer programming which makes these types of comparisons possible. It may be worth noting for historical purposes that the use of digital technologies to search physically dispersed genizah fragments and to compare them in order to identify matches was pioneered at the Penn Libraries in partnership with the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Unit at Cambridge University Library and with the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. See: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/genizah/index.cfm / Among the librarians who participated in this effort were our own Heidi Lerner at Stanford University and Naomi Steinberger at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary.. Note also that Heidi and Seth Jerchower, then at the Penn Libraries, gave numerous presentations and published an article discussing the MARC cataloging issues they solved in the course of the project. Their article, which first appeared in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Volume 42, Number 1, 2006, pages 21-39, can be read on-line via the Scholarly Commons website at the University of Pennsylvania: http://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/7/ Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron, Ph.D. Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - Room 205 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 t. (215) 573-7431 f. (215) 898-0559 w. http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/judaica/ Hours: MTTh or Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 t. (215) 238-1290 ext. 202 f. (215) 238-1540 w. http://www.library.upenn.edu/cajs/ On 5/28/2013 4:56 PM, Hasafran wrote: Subject: piecing together the fragments of the Cairo Genizah - NYT This article may be of interest http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/middleeast/computers-piecing-tog ether-jigsaw-of-jewish-lore.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& __ 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: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mail list.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist .html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
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