Dear Safranim, The teachers still assign bios here--general and on famous Israelis. It does not bode well that we have so few in the collection and they are so old and tattered. The students really eat up the Who Was? series and any series that have color, glossy photos and boxes here and there with information--also not too long!
Thank you all for responding. Hopefully, we can work together to address and remedy this. Happy Chanukah! Leah Bennett Yeshivah of Flatbush Brooklyn NY ________________________________ From: Hasafran <hasafran-boun...@lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Amy Turim <amytu...@rcn.com> Sent: Friday, December 8, 2017 12:32 PM To: 'Diane Romm' Cc: 'hasafran' Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Israeli bios for elementary school Thank you, Diane, for adding some support to my comments. (Yes, I, too, remember when teachers assigned biographies, and I think if we had GOOD ones we would at least be able to enthusiastically recommend them.) I also wondered about some kind of incentive from AJL… perhaps setting up an AJL Grant for New Biography to support a writer(s)? Or maybe your idea of working with a publisher is more practical. Other thoughts? Amy From: Diane Romm [mailto:dr...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2017 12:07 PM To: hasafran@lists.osu.edu Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Israeli bios for elementary school I agree with Amy that the lack of bios about famous Israelis is very troublesome. As for them not being checked out, once upon a time teachers used to assign the reading of biographies as an assignment. I do think the lack of information is something we as an organization should think about trying to remedy. Could we approach a Jewish publisher with the idea of creating such a series and assure them that as librarians we would purchase them? Alternately, would an organization like Avi Chai or a Board of Jewish Education consider funding authors to produce such products? Diane Romm [https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif]<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient&utm_term=link>
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