Re: [ha-Safran] Cataloging Ketubot

[Cohen, Julie via Hasafran]

Hi Gabriel,
Below is the documentation that Daniel Lovins developed for us when we began 
our project of cataloging Yale’s ketubot in 2009. (It will need a few updates 
to meet RDA standards.)
You can view images and records of most of our ketubot at: 
http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog?q=ketubah+beinecke
With best regards,
Julie

Julie Cohen
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
New Haven, CT
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Ketubot Cataloging & Digitization Wiki

Cataloging Elements

  *   title
  *   dimensions
  *   location (if possible)
  *   format (i.e. on paper, vellum, etc.),
  *   appropriate subject and genre headings,
  *   names of bride, groom & witnesses
Tools
MARC variable fields template (under construction)
Leader Type of control: a; record type: p
008 Place of Publication: ctu for location of repository
245 $a [Ketubah ... ]
300 $a 1 |f fol., $c 48 x 30 cm.
500 $a On vellum.
520 $ a Marriage-contract (Ketubah) with ... characters; illuminated border and 
heading with pillars, crowns, and calligraphed verses; cut-out crown-like 
design.
655 $7 $a Ketubah. $2 lcsh
Template draft (added by Karen)
bold = required field
“_” = blank
Brackets indicate information to fill in; do not include brackets in catalog 
record.

Leader
Type of Record p
Bib Level m
Type of Control a
Encoding Level _
Cataloging Form a

008
Pub Status s
Date 1 [year]
Date 2 
Place of Publ ctu
Form of Item _
Lang [code]
Modified Record _
Cataloging Source d

006 2 D non projectable (for items that should be found by searches limited by 
visual material)
Running Time nnn
Audience _
Govt Pub _
Form of Item _
Type of Material k
Technique n

040 __ $a CtY-BR $c CtY-BR $e dacs
041 __ $a [additional language code] $a [additional language code]
245 00 $a Ketubah : $b [place], $ f [year, month day].
300 __ $a 1 $f item ([#] p. ; $c [height, to nearest centimeter].
545 __ $a [Name and biographical information].
(can repeat 545 field)
520 __ $a Marriage contract, manuscript [or printed form completed in 
manuscript], [physical details such as ink on parchment], recording the 
marriage of [name] and [name], dated [transcribed date] at [transcribed place]. 
[Other information as appropriate.]
(can repeate 520 field)
561 __ $a Purchased from [vendor name] on [fund name], [year].
(or Gift of [name], [year].)
546 __ $a In [language, or describe multiple languages].
500 __ $a [more details of physical description].
524 __ $a Ketubah, [place], [date]. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and 
Manuscript Library, Yale University.
600 10 $a [name] (for each name in 545 and 520)
650 _0 [topical headings, as appropriate]
651 _0 $a [place] $x Religious life and customs.
655 _7 $a Ketubahs $z [place] $y [century]. $2 aat
(can use 655 for broader terms such as Contracts or Legal Documents; can use 
for physical characteristics such as Watercolors (paintings))
852 __ $a Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
856 41 $3 View digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online 
database ‡u [url]



Last modified at 3/17/2009 4:05 PM  by Lovins, 
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From: Hasafran  On Behalf Of 
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Subject: [ha-Safran] Cataloging Ketubot

Dear colleagues,

I am wondering what are your local practices when cataloging Ketubot.

[this question was also posted in the heb-naco mailing list, apologies for the 
duplication]

Thank you,
-Gabriel


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Re: [ha-Safran] Judaica Librarianship off to a new start

[Cohen, Julie via Hasafran]

Rachel,
Wow, this is a tremendous achievement for our organization. Congratulations on 
your new position, and thank you for your hard work. AJL is lucky to have you 
as the Judaica Librarianship editor!
All best,
Julie

On Jan 1, 2020, at 9:51 PM, Hasafran via Hasafran 
mailto:hasafran@lists.osu.edu>> wrote:


Dear AJL members,

I have a short apology and a long explanation for you regarding the delayed 
publication of Judaica Librarianship’s new issue (#21).

As you know, producing AJL’s scholarly journal is based on voluntary work. In 
2018, I was first grappling with a new day job position and then went on a 
semester-long sabbatical. In 2019, I had a lot of post-sabbatical catch-up to 
do and while working on the content of issue #21, I was also engaged in a 
search for a new hosting service for the journal.

Since we transferred JL to electronic publishing in 2013, we have hosted the 
journal content on the Digital Commons platform, owned and operated by bepress, 
a company that was established by academics to promote open access publishing 
and library repository solutions. We teamed up with bepress because they 
accommodated our needs, including the management of our delayed access 
publishing model (a 12-months exclusive access for AJL members) – but that came 
with a cost. In addition to the big-ticket annual fee, as all bepress costumers 
we learned from the media in early August 2017, that the company was purchased 
by Elsevier, one of the most aggressive commercial publishers in scholarly 
publishing  (see the Scholarly Kitchen post: 
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/08/02/elsevier-acquires-bepress/).
 Many of bepress customers moved away from Digital Commons since then and JL 
Editorial Board agreed that we should do so, too as AJL should not contribute 
to the for-profit publisher. Due to the reasons stated above I was not able to 
dedicate much time for this project until 2019, but now I am happy to report 
that we found a new hosting service for JL. The journal will move to its new 
home in a few weeks, after we migrate its structure, metadata, and articles; 
and the new issue will be published on the new platform.

This move constitutes a major saving for AJL and would contribute to the 
sustainability of our organization. Furthermore, as many scholarly journals 
have done, I am happy to announce that JL Editorial Board and AJL Council 
unanimously approved my proposal to move the journal to complete open access 
publishing.* This initiative would expand the reach of JL to global readership 
even further than it did so far: Since the journal moved to electronic 
publishing, the 250 articles posted online were downloaded almost 39,000 
times(!) and in 2019 alone, almost 7,500 downloads were recorded. Advancing to 
open access publishing is not only the right thing to do, as declared by an AJL 
Council member, but it also epitomizes the AJL Mission:

The Association of Jewish Libraries is an international professional 
organization that fosters access to information and research in all forms of 
media relating to all things Jewish. The Association promotes Jewish literacy 
and scholarship and provides a community for peer support and professional 
development.

I thank the JL Editorial Board, and AJL Council and Board for their strong and 
enthusiastic support and look for the continued support of AJL members in AJL 
and its scholarly journal. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Stay tuned for the new issue and new platform announcement!

Happy New Year,
Rachel

* “Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles 
combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital 
environment. Open Access is the needed modern update for the communication of 
research that fully utilizes the Internet for what it was originally built to 
do—accelerate research” (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources 
Coalition; 
https://sparcopen.org/open-access/).


Rachel Leket-Mor, MA, MLIS
Associate Librarian
Curator, Open Stack Collections
IsraPulp Collection
Arizona State University Library
Phone: 480-965-2618

Editor, Judaica Librarianship
Association of Jewish Libraries

[ha-Safran] kippot face masks?

[Cohen, Julie via Hasafran]

Hello colleagues,
Several local organizations are requesting home-sewn, non-medical grade face 
masks from patterns such as 
https://www.craftpassion.com/wp-json/mv-create/v1/creations/19/print.
I'm wondering: has anyone tried adapting kippot into face masks? In particular 
I'm thinking about the drawers and baskets we have stuffed full of bar/bat 
mitzvah souvenirs, especially the lined satiny-ones, that I think could get a 
couple of tucks & elastic straps & be washed and ready to go. Has anyone tried 
this or heard of people in your communities making them this way? Do you think 
this could work?

Stay safe and healthy,
Julie
(And adding one more huge thank you to the Chicago conference planners-I 
certainly hope their hard work will lay the groundwork for us all to gather 
there at a future time.)

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[ha-Safran] Ann Brenner & Pirke Avot at the White House

[Cohen, Julie via Hasafran]

A colleague sent me this wonderful article last night. Kol ha-kavod to Ann and 
the great librarians at the Library of Congress!
Julie

From: 
exlibris-l-requ...@list.indiana.edu 
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 On Behalf Of Rodger Friedman
Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2021 1:05 PM
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Subject: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] Eric Lander's swearing-in ceremony

Eric Lander, a prominent geneticist, was appointed as President Biden's Science 
Advisor, now a cabinet-level post, and Director of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy.

For his swearing-in ceremony, he chose a Talmudic tract on ethics, rather than 
a bible.  This short essay is his explanation of why he chose that, and how Ann 
Brenner, a librarian at LOC, helped him choose a particular copy of the text, 
published in Naples in 1492.

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2021/06/02/repairing-the-world-the-book-i-chose-for-my-swearing-in-ceremony/__;!!KGKeukY!h2soEuN-ECIvgsjsHVSzHyKElWYFrdJBdeb_KZzhI2nWBSwHDEoytNNBYz0UhTwoUFY$
 


Rodger Friedman
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