For those who were not present at the NLI session in Silver Spring: The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book Project (BHB) is a very detailed bibliographic record which aims to describe all published works in Hebrew script from the beginning of Hebrew printing up to 1960. The description is much more detailed than regular cataloging and includes such details as names of authors of approbations (haskamot), bibliographic references, etc.
The BHB was originally published commercially on CD-ROM, but several years ago the NLI purchased the rights to the database and converted it to an open-access one, using the Library's standard ALEPH software. About 90% of the BHB recorded titles are based on the NLI's collection (location is noted for items not held by the NLI). Since the rules of description of the BHB and the NLI catalog are very different, it has been difficult to navigate from one to the other, or to transfer data from the BHB to NLI. The NLI is now adding links within its catalog to open the BHB record corresponding to the NLI's record. These links have been added to about 60,000 records with another approximately 30,000 remaining (mostly 19th and 20th century imprints). Since this process is semi-automatic it is possible that some incorrect links have been created. Please let us know if you encounter such cases. Elhanan Adler Email: elhanan.ad...@gmail.com Mobile tel.: 972-54-6829657 Tel. (home) 972-2-6515977 Fax (home): 972-2-6517129
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