Lee, I agree that this is a great idea and I'd like to be kept in the loop, please. I'm particularly interested in the sharing of Sephardic resources.
Thanks! Annette -- Annette Goldsmith, PhD Los Angeles, CA Lecturer, University of Washington Information School Librarian, Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Lee Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had very positive responses to my proposal that we explore creating a > set of online resource guides (see below). I think there is enough > interest and energy behind this idea to make it worth exploring further. > After this note, I will move the discussion offline to those who have > expressed interest in working on this, so let me know if you want to be > part of this discussion going forward. > > I wanted to mention a couple of important points raised by those who have > responded so far. > > One noted discussions already underway through AJL about the Jewish > Digital Commons. I did a little poking around in Google and found some > sites with similar names - one sponsored by the Center for Jewish History - > but it wasn't clear to me how this would apply to the case I've raised. If > you are one of those who is working on an AJL instance of the Jewish > Digital Commons, I'd like to hear more about what this is and how this > might be implemented. > > Another respondent mentioned a revamping of the AJL website and the > possibility of supporting resource guides within that platform. Again, if > you are one of those who is working on this project and could provide more > information, esp. related to the possibility of supporting the proposed > guides, I'd like to be in touch. > > Quite a few members gave a thumbs-up to LibGuides as a potential platform, > working with it within their library systems. I used it when I worked at > UC Santa Cruz and thought it would be a good platform for supporting this > work. However, as far as I understand this, order for all of us - across a > wide assortment of institutions - to collaborate on a set of guides, I > think we'd need to be enrolled under the auspices of a single organization. > I've started to explore that with SpringShare, the host of LibGuides. > > One person mentioned a blog as a potential platform. I'm blog-blind, so > this was a useful reminder of other approaches. I don't know how a blog > would support this sort of work - they seem episodic and not easily > organized - but I'm willing to learn whether there is application. Perhaps > we could use a blog as a means of communicating about new resources and > organizational issues among those managing the guides. I'm happy to hear > other ideas. > > As mentioned, if you have an interest in participating or being kept in > the loop, please let me know. I don't want to burden the whole list with > this discussion as it gets more detailed but I will post updates when I > think they'd be of interest to the whole list. > > Thanks, > > Lee Jaffe > Temple Beth El, Aptos > > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Lee Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wanted to see if there was interest in this group in developing a >> shared collection of online resources for Jewish research and reading. I >> know AJL maintains the Bibliography Bank and some other sites, but none of >> these meet the need I'd like to address. I'm thinking of subject guides to >> online resources - primarily free and available to all users - that we all >> could use to assist our communities. >> >> As an example, look at the guides I've started to create for my Temple >> library at https://sites.google.com/site/tbeaptoslib/guides. >> >> In the midst of doing this work, it occurred to me that I was probably >> reinventing the wheel and this would be done better through a cooperative >> effort. My idea is to organize a series of generic subject guides that >> would be relevant and useful to anyone anywhere. Instead of dozens of us >> researching, building and maintaining our own guides, there'd be one >> centralized set of guides we'd build and maintain collectively. >> >> I can think of a couple of ways to approach this. This could happen >> under the auspices of AJL - and perhaps "branded" as an AJL resource - or >> privately by a group interested individuals. From the technical side, it >> could be as simple as setting up a generic website, with shared ownership >> and permissions, that will allow us to create and edit the guides >> collaboratively. A more sophisticated arrangement - such as LibGuides - >> would let us share components within a customized framework. >> >> I'd be glad to discuss and explore this idea with AJL as a whole or >> individually with anyone interested in taking this further, >> >> Thank you, >> >> Lee Jaffe >> Temple Beth El, Aptos >> > > > __ > 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/maillist.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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