In the list I sent yesterday, there are several corrections:
Kathe Pinchuk is the new Sydney Taylor Awards chair, Daniel Scheide
is co-editor of Adult reviews for the Newsletter, and the position of
Convention Treasurer is still open.
Since the formatting on my original post did not come
The periodicals librarian at our public library would like to find a
Hebrew language newspaper or weekly, of general interest, published
in the United States. Any suggestions?
Reva Auerbach
Temple Beth-El, Northbrook IL
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Dear Friends,
I have recently posted two new interviews with Nora Raleigh Baskin
and Sarah Gershman.
Happy Reading!
Click here: Jewish Books for Children with Author Barbara Bietz
Best,
Barbara
Barbara Bietz
Member, Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee
Association of Jewish Libraries
Like a
Stay tuned to the 2008 Convention Blog for live updates during the
convention from guest blogger Tina Weiss. You can catch all the
action at: http://ajlcleveland2008.blogspot.com/
Wendy
Wendy Wasman
216-235-5893 (cell)
216-378-3303 (home)
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Summer reading lists and/or assignments for students from K - G8 in
Modern Orthodox Jewish schools
Dear all,
Our small, but growing, Modern Orthodox Jewish school in Hong Kong would
like to ask if any of your schools give out summer reading lists and/or
assignments to students?
If so, would
There are networks of Israeli Libraries if this is what you are
interested in:
Israel Library Network Web Catalogs
http://libnet.ac.il/~libnet/malmad-israelnet.htm#OPACs
Israel Library Network Web Sites
http://libnet.ac.il/~libnet/malmad-israelnet.htm
Libraries of the Israel College
all libraries in one site - no, but there is a list of public libraries
at the site of the Israel Center for Libraries:
http://www.icl.org.il/
(select 'sefer ha-sifriyot')
and of most of the academic libraries at the MALMAD Consortium site:
http://malmad.iucc.ac.il/
(select 'reshet
Rubin Mass Publishers Booksellers
Dear Book friends,
We are happy to offer you a new printing of Mishnat Ha Zohar (The
Wisdom of Splendour) , essential books for everyone who's interesting
in the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism.
Mishnat Ha Zohar -The Wisdom of Splendour- 2 vols. Set
The
The Chapter Relations Committee is hosting 2 programs at
Convention--if you're involved in a Chapter, would like to form a
Chapter, or need ideas to keep your chapter active, come to our
programs--we always have lively discussions!
Sunday night at 9:00, CHAPTER RELATIONS GET-TOGETHER--we'll
The Public Relations Committee of AJL is responsible for raising
awareness of AJL's programs and building relationships with the
outside world. At the moment it is a committee of one: just me,
Heidi Estrin. I'm looking for a few people to join with me to help
bring AJL's message to the world.
Aaron,
Unfortunately, the nekudot not lining up under the foot of the resh (or
the daled for that matter, which also emulates Rabbi Hillel and stands
on one foot) is a function of how a given font renders the characters.
I cannot seem to find a font that does this the way you want it to.
With
Have you tried DavkaWriter (see www.davkawriter.com)?
You can do nekudot in Word? Whenever I try to just do Hebrew letters,
they end up switched around.
Davka has a lot of features of Word plus Hebrew. I've used it to mail
merge diplomas with Hebrew names as well as English.
Rose Myers
Edith
Hi Everybody,
FYI, Part 2 of the series of podcasts I recorded at the Book Expo
convention is now online. This episode includes interviews with
publishers, authors, and bloggers about Jewish books for older kids and teens.
Part 1 was about picture books. Part 3 will be adult books and Part 4
I'm curious about how your OPALS experience has been going. We just
started using the program and have been having some access
problems. We also have problems because OPALS is not reading our
barcodes and we have to type in an abbreviated barcode for each item.
I'm wondering if anyone else
Hello,
We are working on a project with HebrewBooks.org which will expose
record metadata for their digital titles via OAI, MODS and MARC. Would
there be an interest among any libraries in using that metadata?
Thanks,
Yakov
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You can (sort of) do them in word (with Hebrew support of course), but it is
pretty hit or miss. I gave up on using word for Hebrew documen5ts long ago,
and switched to Davka - much easier to use, better handling of nekudot, more
predictable printing, better keyboard support etc
-James
Effective July 1, 2008 The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
will be open as follows:
Sunday 12 noon - 7:00 p.m.
Monday - Thursday 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. or Seminary closing
The Special Collections Reading Room will be
Just a reminder about this collegial opportunity at the upcoming convention.
If you have anything that you would like to share as part of the
display, or have any further questions, please let Debbie librarian
@ icja.org or me sravid @ maimonides.org know before this weekend
so we can finalize
Jewishconstruct.org is a new social network dedicated to creating
and serving an online Jewish design and architecture community. The
website is intended to become an online repository of images, maps,
architectural plans, articles (scholarly and popular), and other
information related to
Does any of you know if it will be exhibited at the convention next week?
Amalia Warshenbrot, Director
Levine-Sklut Judaic Library Resource Center
5007 Providence Rd. Suite 107
Charlotte NC 28226
Phone 704-944-6763
Fax 704-362-4171
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Microsoft Word has supported Unicode (and by extension Hebrew with
nekudot, ta'ame mikra, etc.) since the 2002 release.
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and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)
Dear Friends,
Please, no more requests for free copies. I will
honor all 8 or 9 requests that I have already received even though 3
or 4 came in after I sent my first message saying that all the copies
were called for. My customer was willing to pay for 4 copies only. I
We are missing volume 2 of The 39 Melochos, by Rabbi Dovid Ribiat. Is
there any way that this single volume can be replaced without paying
for a whole new set?
Thank you,
Rena Fruchter
Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy
Berman Media Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
301-962-9400 ext. 5194
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Our synagogue is the site of a Mother's Circle group, which is for
non-Jewish women raising Jewish children. I have been asked to
provide a list of books for their book group. There is a website
(themotherscircle.org) which suggests a lot of non-fiction books, but
I'd like to offer a few
I'm forwarding this (paraphrased) request from Madison, WI to you
all, hoping someone has an answer:
==
I'm trying to get hold of Pimsleur (Modern) Hebrew II. I don't
want to buy before I listen to them, and there's no real way to try
it out online. I've had no luck in
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