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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

Shavua Tov Safranim! Here is this week’s bookmarkable links:

Judaica Libraries Unite

The New York Public Library, New York University, and Columbia University, which all have extensive Judaica collections are collaborating to offer scholars/members of any one of the three institutions to access to all three collections, Read more here. (By way of Michelle Chesner’s blog).

Google Settlement goes Sour

Google has been getting some negative news this past week. In this interview with Tech Crunch, you can watch Siva Vaidyanathan talk about his new book Googlization, in which he describes Google as an unchecked monopolist of information services.

Also, the Scholarly Kitchen and Boook sellers.com offer some thoughts about the rejection of the second attempt at the GoogleBooks court settlement for copyright infringement.

Some thoughts on education for digital natives

Given the rapid pace of changing technology, need to keep thinking about how they can change their services to meet the needs of new students. These two links below offer some ideas:

Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century.

Shalom Safranim! Hope everyone had a great Purim. Here is this week’s bookmarkable links:

Gearing up for Pesach

Harvard University Press recently published a facsimile version of the Library of Congress’s beautiful Washingoton Haggadah, written and illustrated by Yoel ben Shimon during the 15th century. More pictures are available here  and a description of the book here (thanks to Heidi Estrein for sending this link along).

Also, in case you’ve never seen it, the Library of Congress has its Hebraic Collection online which contains a variety of Judaica as well as information and pictures of other Haggadot.

This year’s Computer’s in Libaries Conference:

Professor Jill Hurst-Wahl has been blogging on some of the issues being discussed at this year’s Computer’s in Libraries conference, such as community tagging, library marketing, and new search features for web search engines:

http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/

In the spirit of the AJL conference in Montreal this coming summer:

A video glossary of Yiddish words and expressions from the Shtetl Montreal: 
http://shtetlmontreal.com/yiddish-danish/words/

Yiddish humorist and native Torontorian Michael Wex talks about Canadian Jewish History and his new book, The Frumkiss Family Business:
http://michaelwex.com/2011/03/wex-on-menschlife/

Shavua Tov Safranim! Here is this week’s list of Bookmarkable links. Remember that all of the links from recent posts on the Weekly Link Roundup can also now be searched at Delicious.com by searching for “ajl_links”. 

The Flickr Commons: Get photos through participating organizations at the Flickr Commons; most of them have no known copyright restrictions. The Center for Jewish History has contributions  as well as the Jewish Society of the Upper Midwest. (Anyone else I missed?)

-Folks who might be looking forJudaica library  jobs, here’s a great exhaustive list of Jewish studies programs  available globally.

-Bodleian Library holds a copy of Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, signed by Maimonides himself. They have digitized it here and made it available for all to see (by way of the YU blog)

-In my Internet travels, I came across this great pathfinder with links for the study of American Jewish History from the Myer And Rosaline Feinstein Center For American Jewish History, Temple University.

-Historical Jewish Press: ”This site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods. We display digital versions of each newspaper, making it possible to view the papers in their original layout. Full-text search is also available for all content published over the course of each newspaper’s publication.” (By way of Michelle Chesner’s recent talk at AJL-NYC).

-Computers in Libraries conference will be in Washington D.C. from March 21-23 http://www.infotoday.com/cil2011/. For those who might be in D.C. free exhibit passes are available for even if you don’t necessarily want to pay for the entire conference. The Twitter hashtag will be #cil11 and hashtags for Flickr will also most likely be under tags cil2011 or cil11.

Good Shabbos everyone! Here are this week’s suggested links to bookmark:

Israeli online library catalogs (OPACs): The MALMAD – Israel Center for Digital Information Services publishes and maintains an extensive, if not exhaustive, list of library web catalogs from Israel’s universities.

Available for searching online, “The monumental 19-volume Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel was compiled and published by David Tidhar (1897-1970) over the 23 years from 1947 until his death.”

A great LibGuides page for Yiddish resources published by Johns Hopkins University is available here.

Looking for a job? METRO in NYC publishes a Libguides page of professional development resources here (from the NY Librarian’s Meetup blog).

For those of you out there who thought it was too difficult or expensive to publish your writing, Barnes&Noble has now released PubIt, an electronic upload service that allows easier entry into the ebook market for self-published authors and independent publishing companies (a boon for almost any Jewish publisher or author). Barnes&Noble says that 35 of their 200 top best-sellers in on the Nook were published through this new service.

Shavua tov Safranim! Here are this week’s Judaica and library-related links of interest:
JWA Film Series Guide: “JWA’s new film discussion program provides groups with tools to explore cultural attitudes about American Jewish women through screening and discussion of five popular movies produced over the last fifty years. The program guide includes introductions to the topic, background information on each film, a series of questions designed to encourage lively discussion, and practical advice for hosting a film discussion program in your home or institution.”

Legislating library funding cuts: Many of you may have seen or heard the news about how Scott Garrett proposed amendment to cut all funding to Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). Read the news from ALA’s Washington Office here.

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States: This is a great quick-reference resource for public domain copyright clearance from Cornell’s Peter B. Hirtle.

A couple of great links were published as part of The Takeaway at JTS’s blog this week:

Academic Blogs on Jewish Studies: “Recently, an article by Heidi Lerner, entitled “Online Resources for Talmud Research, Study, and Teaching”, was published in: AJS Perspectives : The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies [Fall 2010 – p.46-47]. The following blogs that deal with Jewish Studies from an academic perspective were recommended.”

AND

Instructions for finding Jewish book reviews in Digitized Journals in answer to the question: How can I find English & Hebrew book reviews of specific scholarly books published in the last few decades?”

Hello Safranim, here are this week’s Judaica links of interest. I’ll be trying to post the link roundups earlier in the week in order to give you more time to explore them. From here on out, I’ll also be archiving all of these links under the tag “ajl_links” in Delicious. If you want to see them, just go to the www.delicious.com and type the query “ajl_links” in the search box. More on this next week…  Bob

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection:
Correspondences available from various concentration camps. “More than 2000 correspondences were scanned and the images are in jpg format. Images are available for screenshow or download (by way of Blog for IST 677: Creating, Managing & Preserving Digital Assets 2010).

Flickr accidentally nukes user’s 4,000 photos: Makes you think twice about the viability of preserving your pictures and other personal content online.

Selections from Three Faiths Exhibit at NYPL. You can also watch a few videos on the making of parchment and ink as well as the scribal arts by linking to videos from the main page here. If you’re in the NYC area, try to go see this great exhibit before it closes on February 27th.

Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954: “Jewish Life in America will enable you to explore the history of Jewish communities in America from the arrival of the first Jews in the 17th century right through to the mid-20th century…This treasure trove of material provides digital images of collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York. All of the typescript and printed material is full-text searchable.” (by way of Michelle Chesner’s Jewish Studies at CUL Blog).

Extensive Collections from the Center for Jewish History: I was fortunate to have had the opportunity this week to interview Andrea Buchner (director of the Gruss Lipper Digital Lab) for one of my classes. If you’ve never been to the catalog, take a look now. This is a gigantic (and FREE) repository of Judaica artifacts which includes all different types of media formats.

Here’s this week’s collection of links on Jewish books, libraries and librarianship.

Do you know a librarian superhero? Enter him or her in a contest starting from this post on Stephen’s Lighthouse.

Graphic Storytelling by Jewish Women from the Sisterhood.

From Tablet, Daybreak: Holocaust Remembrance Day.

OA: Just Another Business Model, from ACRLog.

Ebooks and Libraries: A Stream of Concerns, from Information Wants to be Free.

The Jewish Book Council’s J Lit Links.

That’s it for me. The weekly roundup may be on a brief hiatus in the coming weeks.

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Here’s this week’s collection of links about libraries, Jewish libraries, librarianship and more, as well as some holiday links for Tu B’Shevat.

What Doesn’t Kill You on Tu  B’Shevat, from TCJewfolk.

Eating Jewish: Recipes for a Tasty Tu B’Shevat table, from Jewesses with Attitude.

The Triangle Fire, in Couplets: Enter the Poetry Contest! from Tablet. This might be fun to share with your patrons as well!

Another 12 Technologies on the Verge of Extinction, from Stephen’s Lighthouse. I’m not sure I agree with all of his choices, but it’s thought-provoking. What do you think?

The Jewish Museum tells us about Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish and the Opening Night: 2011 New York Jewish Film Festival.

New Book on American Hebrew Literature, discussed at the Jewish Literary Review.

Searching 60 Million Pages of Canadian History, an article highlighting the Canadiana Discovery Portal, a new database of Canadian history sources. A search for the keyword “Jewish” brought up 10 pages of results!

That’s it for this week. Email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org with feedback and suggestions. Have a great week.

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Here are some great links on libraries, librarianship, Jewish books and more. Included are a book list, great posts to share, links new resources and an opportunity to add a new reference book to the shelf.

My Top Books for the Eight Nights of Hanukkah, by Marg at The Fourth Musketeer blog.

Ebooks for professional development: ALA’s books available on the Google Ebookstore.

A Fresh Look at Your Home Library, from Reading Rockets. This is a great post to share with patrons, too!

On Twitter? Want to find out what Jewish organizations are there? See AJL’s list here. And see all of AJL’s list at AJL’s Twitter homepage

The Distributed Library: Our Two-Year Experiment, this month’s guest blog at ACRLog.

Great Reference Ideas Contest, from Salem Press. Any Jewish topics that need to be covered in a reference work? Suggest them here!

From ResourceShelf, Harvard Business Review’s “Six Social Media Trends for 2011.”

Email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org with feedback or suggestions and have a great week.

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Some fun Chanukah-related posts:

The Donut Diaries- First Night, from TCJewfolk.

Happy Hanukkah (in song), from Jewesses with Attitude.

From the Jewish Book Council and featuring several members of AJL, It’s Christmastime for Chanukah Books.

Hanukkah Lights 2010, from National Public Radio.

Now some non-holiday related posts:

Brown University’s John Carter Brown Library features an online exhibit on Jews and the Americas.

Finding ‘Teachable Moments’ in Animal Tales, from National Public Radio.

Just for fun from the Library History Buff Blog, a New York Society Library Charger, 1798-1792. Do you have any interesting artifacts in your library you’d like to share with the AJL community?

From the University of Toronto Libraries newsletter, Creating a Culture of Connection Among Instructors, Librarians and Students, an academic libraries perspective.

The Academic Librarian’s Identity Conflict, from the ACRLog.

Got some great links to share? Feedback? Email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a happy holiday!

Posted by Marie.

Here’s another collection of great links from around the web on books, libraries, Jewish books and Jewish libraries. Enjoy the weekend and the upcoming Chanukah holiday!

Eating Jewish: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food, a review at Jewesses with Attitude.

Stephen Abram from Stephen’s Lighthouse shares a great article on Global Changes in Online Behavior, something all librarians need to stay on top of.

ACRLog brings us Focus on Flexibility, an academic library perspective on adapting to changing times.

The Jewish Book Council blog shares their Report on the 12th Annual Jewish Childrens’ Book Writers and Illustrators Conference. Were there any AJL folks in attendance? It would be great to offer a home-grown perspective on the event if one is available.

Prepare Yourself for Chanukah Shopping! from the Jewish Publication Society.

The Book of Life brings us the 2010 Canadian Jewish Book Awards.

Reference Webinar Archive Now Available from Booklist Online. I’m a big fan of webinars for convenient, subject-specific, just-in-time learning. This is a great resource from a great supporter of librarians and libraries.

Have a wonderful weekend and I hope to see you back here next week. In the mean time feel free to contact me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org with comments, feedback and suggestions.

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Here we go again- our weekly roundup of great links on Jewish libraries, librarianship, books and more, including a couple of great links for Hanukkah.

AJL’s Greater Cleveland Chapter continues to enrich the blogosphere. This week, they offer a list of New Hanukkah Books by AJL’s own Linda Silver.

Pick Your Favorite Chanukiah, from Tablet Magazine.

From PPC Blog, Learn How Google Works, in Gory Detail.

J Lit Links, a great roundup from the Jewish Book Council.

A roundup of adult Holocaust Books, from the Jewish Literary Review.

From Lilith.org, Feminists in Focus: David Grossman on Film.

Feedback and questions to me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week.

Posted by Marie.

Here we go again- another edition of our famous weekly link roundup. What’s been going on in the world of Jewish books, libraries, librarianship and more this week?

Best Free Web Stuff for Broke Libraries, from Librarian in Black,

The Sisterhood brings us Our Rack: Yeshiva Girl YA; Bios of Bernhardt, Alcott,

How a Quest to Save Soviet Jews Changed the World, from NPR,

Research Buzz tackles new search engine Blekko in Blekko Joins the Search Engine Wars,

Jewesses with Attitude reviews The Bookseller’s Sonnets: Andi L. Rosenthal’s debut novel,

ALA offers a Copyright & Electronic Resource Management eCourse, and

ACRLog asks, Do We Need a Bigger Carrot?

As always feel free to email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org with questions or feedback. Thanks and have a great week.

Posted by Marie.

Here are some great new links in the world of Jewish books, libraries and librarianship.

From Schocken Books, Random House Goes Kosher!

Gale Expands AccessMyLibrary apps for College and Android Users, from Booklist.

An Afternoon with Avi Steinberg, from Tablet. AJL has an interview coming up soon with Steinberg-stay tuned.

From Information Wants to be Free, Inspiring Stuff to Read, Take 3.

Vasily Grossman’s The Road: Previously Untranslated Work from an Important Soviet Writer, from the Jewish Literary Review.

Two New Sets of Primary Sources from the Library of Congress, from ResourceShelf.

Have a great week. Email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org with feedback or suggestions.

Posted by Marie.

Here’s some great links from around the blogosphere this week on Jewish books, reading, libraries and librarianship.

Congratulations to Howard Jacobson, winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question.With Jacobson’s Booker Prize Win, A New Life for the ‘Jewish Jane Austen,’ from NPR.

What if Being a Librarian was the Most Dangerous Job in the World? from GalleyCat.

Turning the Research Lens on Ourselves, from ACRLog.

Skype Offering Free Trial of Virtual Classroom Environment, from OnLion/Behrman House.

The 12th Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Conference, from the Jewish Book Council.

RUSA Best Websites, from Booklist Online.

From Resource Shelf, Guide: How to Host an Effective Virtual Meeting.

That’s it for today. Have a great week. Email comments or suggestions to me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org.

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Here’s some great links from around the blogosphere this week. If you know of a great blog you’d like me to read and include in these roundups please send me a note at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org.

From Tablet Magazine, Sukkah of the Soul.

A Sukkot Link Round-up from Jewesses with Attitude.

From Stephen’s Lighthouse, Pew/Nielsen: The Rise of Apps Culture.

From ACRLog, Ready, Set, Teach: You in the Classroom. This is the first in a new series of academic-librarian guest bloggers.

Netflix in libraries and hypocrisy, from Information Wants to be Free.

J Literary Links from the Jewish Book Council.

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Here are this week’s links from around the blogosphere on books, librarianship and more.

Ray Frank’s Historic High Holy Day Services, from The Sisterhood.

Inspiring Stuff to Read, Take 2, from Information Wants to be Free.

Favorite Fictional Jewish Characters, from the Jewish Book Council Blog.

Rising Through the Ranks: On Upward Mobility in Librarianship, from In the Library with a Lead Pipe.

Yom Kippur Machzor Translated for Brazilian Jews, from the Jerusalem Post.

New Jewish Poetry from Yehoshua November from the Jewish Literary Review.

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We have returned with some great links on Jewish books, libraries and librarianship.

The Melbourne Writers’ Fest produced this video on 10 Facts You Won’t Read in a Book About Books.

From Schocken Books, Ruth Gruber Inspires New Movie.

From the ACRLog blog: Is There a Rescue Plan at Your Library?

From Information Wants to be Free: What’s the Deal, JSTOR?

From the Jerusalem Post: French Teacher Suspended for Teaching ‘Too Much’ Holocaust

From the Jewish Literary Review: Elie Wiesel’s The Sonderberg Case.

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It’s that time again. Here’s a selection of links on books, libraries and more for the week.

AJL’s Lisa Silverman published a great article, What’s New for Kids to Read, at JewishJournal.com.

Treasures of the Bavarian State Library, including a section on Hebrew books, available as an iPhone app.

My Jewish Learning is running a poetry contest for the High Holy Days.

The American Association for School Librarians posted is Top 25 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

Calling Dibs on Culture, a fascinating article from the Jewish Publication Society.

From the Jewish Literary Review, Jonathan Papernick: A Modern-Day Book Peddlar.

From Points of Reference, OverDrive Customers Can Add Project Gutenberg Titles to Their Virtual Collections.

AJL’s monthly Jewish Book Carnival post will be up on Sunday, August 15. Hope to see you here!

As always feel free to contact me if you have a link you think would be good for our weekly roundup. My email is mcloutier @ jewishlibraries.org.

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Things have been a little slow over the summer, so I have to apologize for the lack of blog posts lately. I promise we’re going to have some great content for you very soon. In the mean time here’s our roundup of great finds on the web for the week.

From Stephen’s Lighthouse, Another Great Library Video, from the University of Bergen in Norway.

A report from the Jewish Women’s Archive on their 2010 Institute for Educators.

The Most Interesting Reaction to my NewCAJE Workshop, from OnLion/Behrman House.

Summer Nostalgia, from the Jewish Publication Society.

Summer Reading: Jewish Bestsellers on Amazon, from the Jewish Literary Review.

Got a link you’d like to share? Email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week.

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Here’s this week’s collection of links on Jewish books, reading, libraries and more.

Red, White and Kosher, from the Schocken Books blog.

In case you missed it at the convention, here’s a link to the 2010 AJL Convention: AJL and Social Media presentation.

From the Jewish Book Council, PBS’ Religion and Ethics Weekly featuring Debra Band and Pamela Greenberg.

From the Jerusalem Post, Taglit celebrates 10 years, a quarter million participants.

Anthony Julius and anti-Semitism in England, from the Jewish Literary Review.

Got something to share? Send me an email at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week.

Let’s see what’s new in the world of Jewish books, blogs, libraries and more this week.

From the Jewish Book Council blog, Allegra Goodman on Writing “Jewish” Fiction.

From ResourceShelf, JSTOR Involved as Israel Prepares to Open First Digital Archive of Hebrew Academic Journals.

From the Jewish Publication Society, Making the Cut.

Erika Dreifus of My Machberet talks up the new YIVO Online Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.

As always if you have feedback or suggestions please either comment below or email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org and have a great Fourth of July weekend.

Maybe it’s the early summer air, or ALA on the horizon, but there’s lots going on on the web in the way of Jewish books, libraries and the like this week.

ResourceShelf directs our attention to a New Report from ACRL: Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians and to a panel from Toronto about the future of publishing and ebooks.

The Yiddish Book Center published a book club guide for Friendly Fire: A Duet, by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Stuart Schoffman.

Erika Dreifus’s book blog My Machberet published a guest post by Barbara Krasner entitled Writing Jewish-themed Children’s Books: A Conference Dispatch including a mention of AJL librarian Lisa Silverman.

OCLC announced Three Gateway milestone records entered in May, one by the Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books.

Jewish Delis: The History of the Nosh comes to us from the Jewish Publication Society’s blog.

The Jewish Quarterly announced the winner of the 2010 Wingate Prize, the so-called “Jewish Booker,” to My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness, by Adina Hoffman.

The New Yorker did a Q&A with Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love and more, in its 20 under 40 series.

Tablet published Reflections on a Book Paradise, about the sale of the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., and why it’s a Jewish story.

As always I welcome feedback and suggestions for next week’s roundup at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week and if you’re on your way to ALA, enjoy!

Here are some great links about Jewish books, libraries and more that have hit the web this week.

Two great posts from the Jewish Publication Society blog- a summer reading roundup and a post on Online Jewish Ethics Resources.

Safranim’s blog has launched. It’s in Hebrew and covers Jewish libraries and books.

Yesterday Tabletmag.com posted A Very Jewish Bloomsday: everything you need to know for today.

ResourceShelf posted a great article for ebook patrons on sending full text ebooks directly to a Kindle.

An article on Translated Poetry by Avron Sutkever in Hayden’s Ferry Review was posted by Erika at the My Machberet book blog.

Great Authors on the Big Jewcy appears at the Jewish Book Council blog.

Q&A with Miryam Kabakov: Editor of Anthology on Orthodox Lesbians is at the Jewish Womens’ Archive Jewesses with Attitude blog.

Inter-Religious Dialogue posted their review of the new online YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.

Have feedback? A link  you’d like to share? Please email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week!