The Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies has just announced the following two acquisitions:
1. The Stephen and Dedee Lovell Collection of Haggadot containing approximately 1200 Haggadot printed between 1670-1960.
2. The Morris and Beverly Baker Collection of Haggadot containing approximately 1300 Haggadot printed between 1960-2005.
The JNUL has recently added a service through which one can receive updates of all recently catalogued books through an RSS feed. A few times a week they publish listings, which on the average have been between 75-100, of newly catalogued items and through a link one can see the full listing in their catalogue. [...]
PhiloBiblos has posted about an expansion in the libraries available via Library Thing. I wasn’t familiar with Library Thing so I took a look at it. It is an on-line cataloging system for your library, but it is also more than that. It is similar to a Facebook or Myspace for books [...]
I have been going through Google Books and have found some that people may want to download.
1. Louis Ginzberg, Geonica vol. I , vol. II
2. The Guide of the Perplexed, trans. Michael Friedlander
3. Moses Mielziner, Introduction to the Talmud
4. Israel Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature
5. Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the British Museum, [...]
I recently read in TNR that President George W. Bush plans to raise close to $500 million for his Presidential Library. In search of something a bit less egotistical than large-budget presidential libraries (GWB did not start the trend, nor are presidential libraries unimportant), I happily stumbled across catalogues of the actual private libraries of [...]
I just stumbled upon the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. It includes information regarding approximately 90,000 manuscripts, most of which have been sold in auctions during the past 100 years. You can search by author, seller, etc. The information provided often includes the selling price of the mss., so if you’re in the [...]
A few months ago I came across a book holder=shtender on the web and soon after I ordered it. While I do have a number of standard olive-wood shtenders, I was looking for something a bit stronger with some additional features. Dainoff Designs makes a number of models of the Atlas Book Holder, [...]
While many people are familiar with collecting books, there are also people who collect bookplates. There is a blog devoted to the subject, Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie, and there are two recent posts on Judaica-related bookplates. If you collect bookplates, Bookplate Junkie is always looking for new ones.
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