Nothing else but to endorse. Zilvinas Beliauskas Head of Vilnius Jewish Public Library
> On 2020-01-22, at 22:51, Dina Herbert via Hasafran <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The Association of Jewish Libraries is dismayed by the decision of the YIVO > Institute for Jewish Research to fire its librarians. > > The difficulty of funding is one that we feel deeply within the world of > libraries and archives, with few funders and many institutions applying for > the same funding. We would caution, however, that replacing expert librarians > with non-librarians also has results that could impact an institution in the > long run. There are the obvious concerns of divvying up the jobs of four > employees among employees that already have full-time responsibilities. More > than that, though, subject librarians are trained in the nuances of a > particular area of research. The YIVO librarians had an expertise in Yiddish > bibliography that, like YIVO’s Yiddish book collection, is unsurpassed, and > the loss of their curatorial expertise is a loss for all YIVO users and for > the collection. > > Librarians often have connections to colleagues in their area at other > institutions, and can connect researchers with relevant resources around the > world. This was made exceptionally clear through the joint partnership of the > YIVO librarians with the National Library of Lithuania to integrate discovery > for books in both collections. We certainly hope that the decision to > terminate their librarians was a temporary move on YIVO’s part, and we look > forward to hearing about how this august institution will maintain its > reputation and unique library collections in the coming weeks and months. > YIVO's decision to remove all Library staff is also a decision to remove > themselves from the larger active Judaica library community. As the many > responses from across the world have already shown in just a few days, we > already see the loss to the entire Judaica library and scholarly communities. > > As the leading authority on Judaic Librarianship, AJL stands with the > community in encouraging YIVO to reinstate the librarians to continue their > critical work. > > Read the statement here <https://jewishlibraries.org/blog/id/432> and please > share widely. > > Dina > > Dina Herbert > President, Association of Jewish Libraries: The Leading Authority on Judaic > Librarianship > https://jewishlibraries.org/ <https://jewishlibraries.org/> > > -- > Dina Herbert > [email protected] <mailto:[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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