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Fall 2007 Vol. 7, Issue 2 Touro College The TCL Letter A Newsletter of the Touro College Libraries Volume 7, Issue 2 Fall 2007 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: From the Acting Director . Bashe Simon Personnel Update 2 On Monday, October 22, attend our workshops. Sara Biography Resource Center New Electronic 2 a farewell collation was held at can be contacted at allows one to browse current Resources the Midtown Library for Dr. 212.463.9400 ext. 233 or by and historic biographies. Libraries and 3 Jackie Maxin, Director of Li- email: [email protected]. BooksInPrint.com Professional Archives in the braries. The event was organ- Ancient Middle East Annette Carr joins our staff as is a searchable tool for infor- ized by Dean Boylan and Ma- the Librarian of the Graduate mation on books, audio books Touro College 4 Archives rina Zilberman, Chief Midtown School of Business at 65 or videos. It is an essential Librarian, and was attended by Broadway, which is scheduled resource for librarians, profes- Information Literacy 4 Dr. Bernard Lander, the Col- to open in March. Sarah K. sors and students. 15th Annual 5 lege Senate members, faculty Laleman is the new Assistant Innovative Users and most of the Library Staff. At this point we would Group Conference Librarian on Sundays at the We at the Touro College Li- Women’s Building. We wel- like to simultaneously wish a Encoded Archival 5 warm farewell to Dr. Maxin Description brary will miss Dr. Maxin’s come our new staff members. inspiration and leadership. and welcome our new staff Spring 2007 User 6 Survey New databases have been members. As Acting Director We are pleased to an- added to the Proprietary Data- of the Libraries I hope to fol- nounce the appointment of bases. Counseling and Psycho- low in the illustrious footsteps Sara Tabaei, the new Informa- therapy Transcripts, Client of Dr. Maxin. Together with tion Literacy Librarian. Sara Narratives, and Reference the entire library staff I look has contacted the Deans and Works contains 12,500 search- forward to continuing the vi- Chairs and is looking forward able transcripts of actual ther- sion and mission of excellence to meeting with the staff and apy and counseling sessions. that have become the hallmark Spotlight on New faculty, who are invited to of the Touro College Libraries. Electronic Resources Bar Ilan University Responsa Biography Resource Center Computer Database Westlaw Campus Research More on page 2! Dr. In addition to library staff from many Touro locations, administrators who Maxin’s attended included (with Dr. Maxin at Farewell left) Dr. Lander and Dean Boylan. Party! Personnel Update Welcome Aboard! Congratulations on Workshop of the Association of Jewish Libraries, New York Metro- Advanced Degrees politan Area Chapter, at the Jewish Marjorie Charlot, Assistant Librar- Children’s Museum in Brooklyn. ian, Kings Highway Starvita D. Patterson, Library As- Stanley Noel, Library Assistant, sistant, Kings Highway, graduated June 14-15, 2007—Associate Direc- Harlem (Taino) with an AS from Touro College tor of Libraries Michoel Ronn at- tended METRO’s Digitization 101 Leiba Rimler, Technical & Elec- Amram S. Rister, Judaica Librarian, Workshop at the Metropolitan New tronic Services Assistant, Midtown received his MSEd from Baruch York Library Council. College, and was ordained a Rabbi Rose J. Weill, Technical & Elec- June 17-20, 2007—Women’s Build- tronic Services Assistant, Midtown ing Librarian Dr. David Levy and Meetings, Conferences and Jamie Luise, Library Assistant, Bay Judaica Librarian Rabbi Amram S. Shore Workshops Rister attended The Association of Sara Tabaei, Information Literacy Jewish Libraries’ 42nd Conference Librarian April 30, 2007—Women’s Building in Scottsdale, AZ. Librarian Dr. David Levy and Ju- Sarah K. Laleman, Assistant Librar- daica Librarian Amram S. Rister June 21, 2007—Systems Librarian ian, Women’s Building attended the Reference Workshop Yitzchak Schaffer attended a PREMIS of the Association of Jewish Li- Tutorial at the Library of Congress’ braries at the main New York Whittier Pavilion. Recipients of Touro College’s Public Library building. June 24, 2007—Judaica Librarian Quarterly Incentive Award May 8, 2007—Midwood Librarian Rabbi Amram S. Rister attended the Eldira Agalliu attended METRO’s Business Meeting & Dinner of the Aretha E. Fairweather, Library Jewish Information Committee of Assistant, Harlem Reference Issues Forum at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s the Ethnic & Multicultural Informa- Miriam Magill, Library Assistant, Thomas J. Watson Library. tion Exchange Round Table of the Bensonhurst ALA’s Annual Conference in Wash- May 17, 2007—Women’s Building ington, DC. Rose J. Weill, Technical & Elec- Librarian Dr. David Levy attended tronic Services Assistant, Midtown the Reference Technologies New Electronic Resources Bar Ilan University Responsa—online Counseling and Psychotherapy Tran- version of Global Jewish database fea- Proprietary databases listed here are scripts, Client Narratives, and Refer- restricted to the Touro community. All tures Biblical and Talmudic material, can be accessed from any Touro PC, ence Works—updated biweekly, this works on Jewish law and more from and most can be accessed off-campus landmark collection includes diaries, the Responsa Literature. To access the with a login and password. For letters, oral histories and full-text tran- security reasons, it is our policy not to Encyclopedia Talmudit, use the Bar email the login and password. To scripts of therapy and counseling ses- Ilan Responsa 14 networked CD- obtain them, contact any of our sions ROM libraries. Biography Resource Center— Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collec- includes over 435,000 biographies on and specialties including technology, tion—weekly updates of 35 journals over 340,000 figures from all subjects bilingual education, health education with over 21,600 articles on develop- and disciplines around the world and test administration mental psychology, language acquisition, group studies, learning disabilities and Computer Database—provides ac- MD Consult (Core Service Clinics)— other subjects cess to leading periodicals on com- allows users to search 35 clinic titles, puter, telecommunications and elec- including geriatric, sleep, sports medi- tronics industries Westlaw Campus Research—provides cine, neurologic, orthopedic and psychi- tabs for News and Business or Law re- atric xreferplus has been renamed Credo search, with access to periodicals, trade Reference Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text journals, newswires, U.S. company pro- Collection—includes full-text access to files and information, broadcast tran- 25 journals with over 10,000 articles scripts, American Jurisprudence 2d, Educator’s Reference Complete—full American Law Reports and over 700 law -text results for nearly half of all journal and weekly updates, covering interna- reviews and journals titles found in ERIC, it covers educa- tional relations, peace/conflict studies, tional levels from preschool to college American government and more Page 2 THE TCL LETTER A NEWSLETTER OF THE TOURO COLLEGE LIBRAR IES VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2 Page 3 Libraries and Archives in the Ancient Middle East by Dr. David B. Levy, Women’s Building Librarian With the continued unrest in Iraq, theme. Tiglath Pileser III of Nimrud it may be interesting to consider the built further archives and is mentioned ancient libraries and archives that once in 2 Kings 15:29, dating from the period served as the jewels of the Middle East, of the prophet Isaiah. Other kings of beginning with the earliest known and ancient Israel in the Bible such as Omri working forward in time. and Ahab (the time of Elijah and Elisha) Archeologists have found in the are also cited in archived inscriptions. ruins of Ur (now in Iraq), the birth- The Cyrus Cylinder, commissioned by place of Abraham, cuneiform (wedge the King of Persia, dates to the period shaped writing) tablets (ca. 2100-1948 of Ezra and Nehemiah, and gives the B.C.E.) classified by topic and stored in Jews permission to return to Israel and clay boxes called saduppu. build the second Temple. Ramses II (ca. 1300 B.C.E.) of The library of Ashurbanipal (668- Egypt, thought by some archeologists 627 B.C.E.) at Ninevah (now Mosul, to be the Pharaoh who enslaved the Iraq), the city to which Jonah flees, and The Great Library of Alexandria, whose destruction in 612 B.C.E. is Hebrews, built a library that contained by O. Von Corven 20,000 rolls. Ramses’ grandson celebrated by the prophet Nahum was Merneptah’s mummy exists, and the excavated in 1849. In the archives that were uncovered, tablets were grouped Merneptah Stele (1230 BCE) inscrip- housed in this library, as well as a copy of tion mentions the “sons of Israel” together by series (iskaru) and subser- ies (pirsu), arranged by numbers, and the Septuagint (the Hebrew Bible in Greek) against whom Merneptah battled, pos- which Longinus in his work On the Sublime sibly during the period of the Jews’ indexed at the rims with finding lists inscribed on the walls near the doors. (Peri hupsos) calls the most sublime work leaving Egypt or during the lifetime of ever written. Moses’ successor, Joshua. Literary texts that may have ex- isted in these collections include The 2 Maccabees 2:13-15 mentions that The Mari archive in Syria hosted “Nehemiah founded a library [in Jerusa- documents that may describe some Epic of Gilgamesh which has a flood story paralleling the Noah flood ac- lem] and collected books about the kings parallel situations to those in Genesis and prophets, the writings of King David,
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