In my experience, it isn't wise to bring much cash at all.
I suggest using your ATM card, at a bank in Canada.Even with
whatever fee is charged, you are much more likely to get a better
exchange rate than what you would get in the US, and you have the
safety benefit of not carrying wads of
Good question; I have heard it a lot in my career in the online
library catalog industry. There are good arguments to each side.
In favor of keeping it wide open and available:
1) library visibility in the community - something to crow about,
publicity, etc.
2) Adds to the prestige of the
transfer and
support of quality research, AJL needs to decide where is the balance
between economic pressures and scholarly support.
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Susan,
My advice is that going into the detail that you suggest is
overkill. Every DVD distributed already has a screen that has that
big FBI warning that displays before the feature starts. Consider
what public libraries do -- I know of no public libraries that put
additional stickers on
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Patricia,
The bottom line question is this: do you want your books to be used?
Or do you want them in some locked up collection, protected from all
but the most persistent user? Are you a library or a museum?
Unless there is some intrinsic value to that signed items ( and from
what you
All,
I think it is timely that this issue arises - it shows up like
clockwork about once a year and it's good to discuss it gain.
A couple of observations:
1) Librarians talking to librarians is not likely to produce
sustainable funding for synagogue libraries
2) Librarians talking to
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Long ago and in another life, I had a very similar task to perform,
and we used book carts as well. With planning and organization (and a
little budget) things can go very well. I have two questions for you
before I throw in my two cents:
1) Where will the books be during the interim period
Edith,
I should have written that in my note yesterday -- clearly we would
have no intention of repeating work that RAMBI is doing.
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Mine arrived about 10 days ago (Boston, MA)
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Now there are three of us who question the whole process I'm
bothered by this constitutional process on several levels, not the
least of which being that this organization is run by people who
don't answer to justifiable questions and criticism ... reminds me of
a certain government in
Does anyone besides me see a direct connection between the whole Judaica
librarian professional self-image issue (which comes up about twice a year)
and then convention cost issue (which arises every July)? I see the two
as very closely intertwined.
If we're professionals, then let's act the
June,
Shelf list cards are, for better of worse, a vestige of times past.
Their role of the shelf list card, in times past, was to represent the
exact position on the shelf where the book was placed. If you had three
physical items with call numbers 443.2, 443.25, and 443.258, the shelf
list
No matter what her qualifications are, is it proper to use Hasafran for
electioneering? Twice?
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I congratulate Google for their commitment to digitizing the world's
knowledge (defined by the knowledge represented by the 5 major libraries
that are participating at this time). This will cost them millions of
dollars, and I think it's well spent. Even though, as someone observed,
this
Securing your workstations:
Any number of inexpensive - but powerful - PC utilities exist to lock
down functions on attended public computers. At a minimum, Amy, the two
PCs that you have should be running Anti-Virus software. There are
freebies out there (www.grisoft.com, for one) or you
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I have a couple of comments that take a somewhat pessimistic view on
Linda's email:
- Linda writes: the research community has a responsibility My
questions: does the research community agree that they have this
responsibility? Is this role one that they have agreed to take on for the
First, to give credit where it is due - that quotation about standards was
the work of Andres (Andrew) Tannenbaum, who coined it in around 1995. ( I
have used it many times in talks and presentations). He's Dutch, and a
fairly big name in the internet standards world.
But, to the matter at
In addition to a special fund, I think that the following 'concrete' steps
might be taken:
- that the booksellers who so frequently advertise on Hasafran themselves
create some sort of a collection replacement apparatus so that, when the
damaged library reopens, it can be (at least somewhat)
Can someone from the Washington DC chapter of AJL send me an email?
Questions about meetings...activities...
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According to OCLC Worldcat- both are at NYPL and both are at UCLA.
Almoli is on microfilm, the Matz publication is in paper.
At 07:37 PM 10/28/2003, Monica Rosenfeld wrote:
Dear Safranim:
I am interested in finding a copy of either of these books:
Pisroyn Haloymes, Oder,
Andrea's original e-mail (that started this thread) raised a serious
question. I'll paraphrase it as:
What obligation do we have as librarians to purchase materials that
present all viewpoints on a particular issue?
knowing very well that we may be in full agreement (or disagreement, more
Eve,
Let me answer this from the point of view of a library systems vendor who
has numerous installations in schools (albeit larger schools than a
synagogue day school).
Generally, self-service checkout works in schools. The crucial factor: how
good is the software you're using at locking
Sara,
No surprise. It's electronic evolution. Survival of the fittest. Darwin
at work.
Go to Target. 98% of their music is on CD. Remaining VHS tapes are marked
down for clearance and have just a fraction of the floor space they used to.
Same at Blockbuster. They still rent VHS, but
Dan,
This is an enjoyable and thought-provoking exchange of views - a phenomenon
that doesn't happen often enough. For your active defense of tradition and
an earlier and simpler life, you are to be commended. Even if I disagree.
Ted
Amy,
Out of curiosity, what were the numbers? That is, how large is the
congregation? How many letters did you have to send out? How many books
showed up? How many people paid? I wonder if your experience could be
helpful to other congregational libraries in planning similar late notice
One way (and by no means the only way!) is to go to
http://www.jewishperiodicals.com/02journalsword.htm and examine the list of
periodicals that the Index to Jewish Periodicals (IJP) indexes as part of
its coverage. It's only a starting point, since the IJP is distributed for
an older and
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