Hello,
I have just rejoined Hasafran after many years of lapsed
membership during which time I was working as an academic librarian in a
Canadian community college turned undergraduate university. I have just
retired and begun volunteering in the dewey-based library of our community
Hebrew day school (K-8) which is part of the public school board. Their
records will soon be converted and uploaded into a city-wide public
school catalogue. The library has not had a dedicated person (never mind
librarian or teacher/librarian) in the library for many years and the
collection is badly in need of weeding, inventory and general overhaul
before the conversion takes place. There have been a string of volunteers
and aides over the years so subject headings, classification is
inconsistent. All items need to be re-barcoded; the catalogues records are
in poor shape and in general there is tons of work to do before the
conversion. There are many old books (40's and on) particularly on Jewish
topics (Jewish history, bible stories, Israel, Judaism, VHS movies, etc)
as well as Jewish fiction. I am looking for guidance on what of the old
stuff is worth keeping. I am aware of standard weeding methods
(circulation stats, etc), have looked at the CREW document on the website,
bought the J. Children's Classics list recommended on the AJL
website, etc. But I am not familiar enough with newer children's Jewish
non-fiction to know what newer stuff is currently available; if the old
stuff is outdated or worth keeping; etc.
I am also looking for a few people that work in a similar type of
library that might be able to give me some advice regarding cataloguing and
classification questions I have for our Hebrew materials and some of the
English-language Jewish areas. If you are willing to answer a few of
my questions to bring me up to speed, please write me directly to
[email protected]. I am so excited to make use of many of the
bibliographies listed on the site, but there is so much work to clean up
our existing collection first and I am hoping there are folks out there who
are using dewey in an elementary junior high school.
Thanks so much,
Karen Hering, BA MLIS
retired from
Macewan University
Edmonton, Alberta
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