RE: [ha-Safran]: AJL Newletter

2010-11-08 Thread Stanley Nachamie
I haven't kept up with this whole thread, but I read Steven Bergson's post about the online newsletter being available to a wider audience. Has it been decided that the online newsletter will be available to anyone, and not password-protected (and thus only available to paid subscribers or memb

Re: [ha-Safran]: AJL Newletter

2010-11-04 Thread ALBA TOSCANO
Hey, team, how's autumn treating everybody? Though fall has always been my favourite season hands down (I love the smell), I have to admit that I'm enjoying this one even more than usual. I wonder why that might be. Anyways, Madden,Emily A wrote: >Will we be able to print-off copies of the ent

RE: [ha-Safran]: AJL Newletter

2010-11-04 Thread Kolodney, Uri
I am sorry to hear that. May I ask if this is because of certain reading habits or has to do with an access (or lack of it) to a computer? Thanks, Uri AJL Newsletter editor Uri Kolodney Hebrew & Jewish Studies Librarian University of Texas

RE: [ha-Safran]: AJL Newletter

2010-11-04 Thread Kolodney, Uri
Emily, Thank you for your questions. Although not all technicalities are set up yet, my goal is to post each issue of the reviews and the news as two separate PDF files. One could print out the whole PDF or part of it as they wish. The plan is that within the PDF itself more content would be lin

RE: [ha-Safran]: AJL Newletter

2010-11-04 Thread Joy Kingsolver
Emily raises an interesting point. Since the original form of the newsletter will now be digital, it should be archived in that form. It will also have to be archived in print form to ensure that it will not be lost due to digital format changes. The details will be worked out before the first dig

RE: [ha-Safran]: AJL Newletter

2010-11-02 Thread Lisa Silverman
I agree that changing from reading a printed publication to reading an online one may cause some people to not read the Newsletter in the new format. However, I intend to simply click "print" on the Reviews section so I can read it at my leisure and file it in my office for future reference. I am e

RE: [ha-Safran]: AJL Newletter

2010-11-02 Thread Madden,Emily A
Will we be able to print-off copies of the entire newsletter in something like a PDF format or, is it going to be reformatted to the degree that articles & topics will be presented in a more dynamic environment with hotlinks to individually presented articles --which, if the latter, would be cu

Re: [ha-Safran]: AJL Newletter

2010-11-01 Thread Fred Lerner
I am sorry to hear about the decision to discontinue publishing the AJL Newsletter in print form. My experience with other organisations leads me to suspect that I'll never get around to reading the thing if I have to go online to do so. Fred Lerner --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasaf