He contacted our congregation as well, actually communicating with our Temple's President , regarding our library and our genizah. We have a small collection, entirely administered by volunteers.
I expressed a note of caution , indicating that I had heard of book dealers who sometimes fished for valuable items that might not be recognized by the owners . Your communication makes me even more suspicious. As we are entirely administered by volunteers, and have no time anyway, a polite letter was sent to him indicating that we couldn't accommodate him at this time. Regarding books that no longer serve us, we created a small self-serve Book Shuk for sales to our congregation, but don't expand outside the Temple. Other items are donated to a local nonprofit, More Than Words , via a book collection container I arranged to be placed at our parking lot entrance. (It is also fairly heavily used by the public.) Robin Zeitz Beth El Temple Center Belmont, MA www.betheltemplecenter.org/education/library [email protected] On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:18 PM Amy Wissoker Graham <[email protected]> wrote: Has anyone been contacted by a gentleman named Sam Mandel about old books? We received an email from him saying that he was interested in old books for his collection and to share with others, and asking to come see what we had. It seemed a little odd, but potentially useful. We are having a book sale in January (donations that are either duplicates or not worth adding, and books weeded from the collection) and I never know what to do with all of the leftovers. Handing them off to him would actually help me out a lot. It just seemed like an odd, random request, so I thought I'd check with you all. Feel free to contact me offline if you are uncomfortable answering to the list. Thanks for any insights. Amy ============================ Amy Wissoker Graham Ray Doblitz Memorial Library Congregation Ohev Shalom Wallingford, PA [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: [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.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
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