[Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

[Neil Manel Frau-Cortes]

That's very nice, thank you! Actually we are about to post about the AJL
directory on ha-Safran and talk about it in the AJL virtual meetings.

Hope you are well.




Kol tuv,

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 2:46 PM Jacqueline Benefraim <j.benefraim at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>> nfrau at umd.edu
>>
>> ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405
>>
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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
>


-- 

*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

nfrau at umd.edu

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-1405
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