Some time ago, a hospital here requested donations of siddurim and humashim for use by patients. Before you bury any books, check if there's a hospital in your area that would like them.
********************************* Marga Hirsch Librarian & Publications Editor Park Avenue Synagogue 50 East 87th St. New York, NY 10128 212.369.2600, x127 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of books2gogh Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 12:29 PM To: Rose Myers Cc: Hasafran ([email protected]) Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] old magazines, etc. All your old sefarim, machzorim, Tenach and any book with G-d's name in Hebrew should be buried. It would make a great learning lesson for your community and even a fund raising opportunity or contact the nearest Orthodox shul for suggestions. Weeding makes a collection more attractive plus providing space for new material. Unless it's in your mission statement to be a Judaic research library, you should put a plan in place regarding how many past issues you should keep. Some periodicals could be kept longer than others and the articles that highlight your ocmmunity or rabbi could be a permanent archive item. Past issues are available on the Internet and you are not far from a major Judaica library for anyone who is doing research that needs back issues. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Rose Myers <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Is there any reason I should feel badly about throwing out years of old magazines such as Midstream, Forum, Tikkun, Sh'ma, Jerusalem Report, Moment, etc.? Evi Reznick [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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