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Shabbat Shalom Safranim! Here is the AJL weekly list of bookmarkable links.
In the spirit of the upcoming convention in Montreal, check out their Jewish Public Library Archives. They’re also on Flickr, accessible here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpl_archives/.
The Vilnius Jewish Library has been established to celebrate culture created by Jews. It is the first Jewish library in Lithuania since 1943, and will be opening spring/summer of 2011: http://vilniusjewishlibrary.org/collection.html
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem and Google announced a partnership that will greatly facilitate preservation of and access to the world’s largest historical collection on the Holocaust. They have almost 140,000 pictures available for viewing here: http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/yadvashem.html
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced it will host a new discussion forum dedicated to the unique needs of the subject-based digital repository community. As repositories continue to grow as an engine for driving Open Access worldwide, new challenges and opportunities emerge and the demand for more focused conversations grows: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2011/03/30/sparc-subject-repositories-forum-launched/
Putting misshelved books back in their proper places is not a library worker’s favorite task. It takes time and it’s not exactly scintillating. Now a computer-science professor has come up with a way to make the process faster and less burdensome: an augmented-reality shelf-reading app that can scan an entire shelf’s worth of books at a time and alert workers which ones are out of place: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/shelving-made-easy-or-easier/30792?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en