[Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

[Jacqueline Benefraim]

Hi Neil,

I hope you are safe and well.

I've always just been someone who reads this listserve, but I'm not really
qualified to make contributions. In any event, I brought home a ton of
work, enough to keep me busy until May since we have 2 weeks off for
Passover.

I thought that maybe you've noticed that some new posts by librarians I
haven't seen posting to HaSafran for a long time. I thought since you're
working on the directory of Judaica libraries, you should at least look at
the institutions that have responded.

By the way, did I ever let you know that  Caron at NLI
Caron.Sethill at nli.org.il has a directory? Maybe you can combine your
efforts. I know many NLI librarians are working from home. You can mention
that you got her email from Ahava, who was at last year's conference.

Kol tuv,

Jackie

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:52 PM Neil Manel Frau-Cortes via Heb-naco <
heb-naco at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I hope you are well and keeping safe and isolated.
>
> One of my big projects at work has been generating tasks for teleworkers,
> particularly for catalogers that are print-dependent and new to remote
> work, and now find themselves almost idle.
>
> I have a proposal: can we find things we could invest time in, as a group?
> If nothing else, I would like to start this discussion.
>
> Potential ideas --
>
>
>
>
>    1.
>
>    Hebrewbooks bib records - unlike HathiTrust, Hebrewbooks does not set
>    high standards for its metadata. We could revisit the existing records and
>    enrich them. At least for now, these are open and available for all, they
>    appear on WorldCat and our patrons make use of them constantly. We could
>    take advantage of this less-than-ideal situation.
>    2.
>
>    We could add links to existing print bibs pointing to Hebrewbooks or
>    other digital repositories (‘also available online...”).
>    3.
>
>    NACO authorities with “provisional” vernacular - in many cases
>    authority files have multiple vernacular Hebrew and Yiddish versions of
>    names. Some of them would require having the item in hand, but some are
>    just mistakes and typos added programmatically.
>    4.
>
>    Wikidata authorities for Hebrew personal names. Anybody can do this,
>    it doesn’t need NACO clearance. It has a definite impact on LinkedData
>    environments, it links to VIAF, etc.
>    5.
>
>    Work on your Merge independence, either as an individual or as an
>    institution. We are not sure OCLC will be able to send us lots of Hebrew
>    examples, but you have some time to browse Connexion and find sets you
>    would want to merge.
>    6.
>
>    Other ideas?
>
>
>
>
> Neil
>
> --
>
> *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his)
>
> *Senior Catalog Librarian*
>
> *Supervisor for Non-Roman and Special Collections Cataloging*
>
>
> University of Maryland
>
> 2200 McKeldin Library
>
> College Park, MD 20742
>
> Phone (301) 405-9337
>
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>
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-- 
Jackie Ben-Efraim

*"Although the books had changed, I the reader had not." **Micha Yosef
Berdichevsky 1865-1921*

Special Collections Librarian
Ostrow Library
American Jewish University
15600 Mulholland Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90077
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