[ha-Safran] Mishnah Berurah
Hallo all The Mishnah Berurah is a commentary on Rabbi Yosef Caro's Shulhan Aruch compiled by the Hafez Hayyim. The standard editions are published with Caro's text. It would seem logical to catalog the work under Caro! However the practice in the States is to catalog the editions under the Hafez Hayyim ignoring the presence of the text ot the Shulhan Arukh. In Israeli libraries, the practice varies, some libraries enter editions under the Hafez Hayyim and others under Caro. Isn't it time we worked out a uniform approach? Chaim Chaim Seymour Head of Cataloging and Classification Wurzweiler Libary Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel, 52900 chaim.seym...@mail.biu.ac.il Tel: 972-3-5318127, Fax 972-3-7384065 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Mishna Berurah
Hallo all In response to my posting, Ms. Meira Harroch, Head of Hebrew Cataloging, Israeli National Library, sent me a private message and asked me to explain National library Policy to the list. Their decision is based on the structure of the title page. If the Mishnah Berurah appears first, then the main entry will be under the Hafetz Hayyim. Where the phrasing emphasizes the Shulhan Arukh, i.e Shulhan Arukh with the commentary Mishnah Berurah, then the heading will be under Caro. Chaim Chaim Seymour Head of Cataloging and Classification Wurzweiler Libary Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel, 52900 chaim.seym...@mail.biu.ac.il Tel: 972-3-5318127, Fax 972-3-7384065 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] AJL ELECTION RESULTS
Congratulations to all the new Board members. May you go from strength to strength. B’shalom, Susan Dubin AJL Past – Past President From: James Rosenbloom Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:54 AM To: hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Subject: [ha-Safran] AJL ELECTION RESULTS Hello. Below are the results of the AJL Elections: Vice President/President-Elect: Yaffa Weisman Vice President for Membership : Sheryl Stahl Vice President for Publications: Joyce Levine Corresponding Secretary : Elana Gensler Recording Secretary : Jolie Baron Treasurer : Deborah Stern RAS President – Daniel Scheide RAS Vice President – Sharon Benamou RAS Secretary – Michelle Chesner SSC President – Lisa Silverman SSC Vice President – Amalia Warshenbrot SSC Secretary – Cherille Berman Congratulations to all of our incoming officers. I want to thank Joy Kingsolver, our Parliamentarian, for all of her work in selecting the company to run the election and in coordinating the vote. A special thank you to the three nominating committees who selected candidates. Jim Rosenbloom James P. Rosenbloom Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University President, Association of Jewish Libraries James P Rosenbloom Library and Technology Services Mailstop 045 Brandeis University 415 South St. Waltham, MA 02454 9110 781-736-4688 rosenbl...@brandeis.edu __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran wlEmoticon-smile[1].png__ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] AJL ELECTION RESULTS
Good job, and congratulations to all! [Description: logo] Etta D. Gold Library Director The Richard and Janet Yulman Campus 5950 N. Kendall Drive, Pinecrest, FL 33156 305.667.6667 ext. 128 (W) 305.662.8619 (F) |eg...@tbam.orgmailto:%7ceg...@tbam.org From: hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of James Rosenbloom Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 7:54 AM To: hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Subject: [ha-Safran] AJL ELECTION RESULTS Hello. Below are the results of the AJL Elections: Vice President/President-Elect: Yaffa Weisman Vice President for Membership : Sheryl Stahl Vice President for Publications: Joyce Levine Corresponding Secretary : Elana Gensler Recording Secretary : Jolie Baron Treasurer : Deborah Stern RAS President - Daniel Scheide RAS Vice President - Sharon Benamou RAS Secretary - Michelle Chesner SSC President - Lisa Silverman SSC Vice President - Amalia Warshenbrot SSC Secretary - Cherille Berman Congratulations to all of our incoming officers. I want to thank Joy Kingsolver, our Parliamentarian, for all of her work in selecting the company to run the election and in coordinating the vote. A special thank you to the three nominating committees who selected candidates. Jim Rosenbloom James P. Rosenbloom Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University President, Association of Jewish Libraries James P Rosenbloom Library and Technology Services Mailstop 045 Brandeis University 415 South St. Waltham, MA 02454 9110 781-736-4688 rosenbl...@brandeis.edumailto:rosenbl...@brandeis.edu inline: image001.gif__ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Square pegs, round holes, and six-pointed stars (was: Re: Mishna Berurah)
Even when cataloging materials from relatively related legal systems, such as the Anglo-American Common Law, and the Roman-based Civil Law, many problems arise (and this is what I do most of the day, Hebrew is a sideline for me). However Jewish law, and Jewish publishing in general, don't follow the same publishing patterns. The title page is probably a less reliable course among traditional (what some call rabbinical) publishers. And this is before we thinking about personal names, since many traditional authors haven't fully bought into the idea of using surnames consistently. Furthermore, even among non-Jewish publishers, publishing patterns are breaking up in the age of online self-publishing. I recently had a problem with an American lawbook where the author confused a pseudonym with a festscrift - LC eventually set up the NAF for author based on the name of the person he was honoring, since that was on the title page, and disregarded what the author clearly stated at the book's website, not mention the about the author page. Perhaps reflecting that I am first of all a subject cataloger, I would suggest we should focus less on a preferred source of information, and more on the substance (which means, horror of horror for a descriptive cataloger - opening the book to see what comes after the t.p.). In a related example, we often make an added entry for Karo's Shulhan Arukh or a part thereof (e.g. Hoshen Mishpat), based on the t.p. (our holy of holies under descriptive rules), when in the fact the book is actually a treatise whose subject matter is defined by those aspects of Jewish law covered by the original Shulhan Arukh (by the Tur, several centuries before Karo was born). We should limit treatment as a commentary to situations where the author is discussing textual analysis (where did Karo get this from, how do Karo and Isserles compare), but not for works that are presenting the authors take on the subject. A similar situation exist for the treatment of Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis which has come to define what civil law is, and is not, throughout the Civil law (meaning other than common law) countries - and we only use commentary treatment for works analyzing the text, and use a subject heading (Civil law) for works on contemporary's authors treatments of the subjects defined by Justinian's code. By this standard, the Mishnah Brurah would probably be entered under the Hafets Hayyim, with a 7xx analytical for the Shulhan Arukh's Orach hayyim, and a 650 heading for Orach hayyim (which doesn't exist, though I did set up an equivalent for Hoshen Mishpat). Since the cataloging world as we know it is about to self-destruct, and hopefully be reborn, now might be a good time to rethink what we've been doing, and reconsider past practices that probably never were fully justified to begin with. Aaron Aaron Wolfe Kuperman Library of Congress, ABA USPL, Law Cataloging Section This is NOT an official communication from the Library of Congress. On Tue, 29 May 2012 chaim.seym...@mail.biu.ac.il wrote: Hallo all In response to my posting, Ms. Meira Harroch, Head of Hebrew Cataloging, Israeli National Library, sent me a private message and asked me to explain National library Policy to the list. Their decision is based on the structure of the title page. If the Mishnah Berurah appears first, then the main entry will be under the Hafetz Hayyim. Where the phrasing emphasizes the Shulhan Arukh, i.e Shulhan Arukh with the commentary Mishnah Berurah, then the heading will be under Caro. Chaim Chaim Seymour Head of Cataloging and Classification Wurzweiler Libary Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel, 52900 chaim.seym...@mail.biu.ac.il Tel: 972-3-5318127, Fax 972-3-7384065 Aaron Wolfe Kuperman Library of Congress, ABA USPL, Law Cataloging Section This is NOT an official communication from the Library of Congress. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Try out the interactive AJL convention image!
Try out the interactive AJL convention image on the People of the Books blog! Just float your cursor over the image to bring up links to convention speakers, tours, and other info. Please feel free to share this image with friends and colleagues by email or by embedding it on your own website or blog (as long as your site allows Javascript). You can find the interactive image on our blog at http://www.jewishlibraries.org/main/Resources/Blog/tabid/104/ID/4718/Try-Out-the-AJL-Convention-Interactive-Image.aspx. You can also find it on our AJL Facebook page. Go to http://facebook.com/jewishlibraries and click on the Interactive! tab near the top (between Photos and Likes), or go directly to the image at https://www.facebook.com/jewishlibraries/app_122951281158671. Please do share this on your own Facebook page! Thanks to all for your help in promoting the AJL Convention! Heidi Estrin he...@cbiboca.orgmailto:he...@cbiboca.org __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Mentor Mingle: Mentors and mentees wanted!
Here is the text of the e-mail blast I sent out to first-time attendees. Please contact me at your earliest convenience if you are interested in either being a mentor or mentee. Welcome, first-timers to the annual AJL Conference! As you have probably noticed, there is a Mentor Mingle scheduled for Sunday from 8:30PM to 11PM. Please come and meet fellow first-timers to exchange ideas, business cards and simply schmooze. For those of you who express interest in being paired, this will be the primary venue for meeting with your conference mentor. Please contact me at your earliest convenience to make the necessary arrangements. (Note: Mentorships are also available for the coming academic year.) This will be a relaxed, casual session where people can organize their thoughts as well as plan for a meaningful learning experience. Door prizes will be awarded for those who attend. Looking forward to seeing you all in a few weeks! Stephanie (Sara Leah) Gross MSLIS, MATESOL Chair, AJL Mentoring Pollack Library Yeshiva University 500 West 185th Street New York NY 10033-3229 212.960.5442 E: gr...@yu.edumailto:gr...@yu.edu E: ajlmentor...@gmail.commailto:ajlmentor...@gmail.com __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
