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Baltimore Hebrew Institute Collection
at Towson University
“To preserve, generate, transmit and apply knowledge of Judaism through the teaching of its culture and civilization within the
context of world civilization.”--BHU mission statement
“To serve the institution, support the curriculum, and provide resources to scholars and members of the public.”
--BHU library mission statement
Scope of the collection
• Size80,000 items
• FormatsBooksPeriodicalsDVDs VideocassettesCassettesMicroformsCD-ROMsE-resources
• Languages English Hebrew Yiddish Russian, Spanish, German, French
Description
Contents
• Bible and Religion• Rabbinics• Jewish History• Archaeology• Jewish Philosophy• Political Science• Israel and the Middle
East
• Sociology• Jewish Education• Language and Literature• Fine Arts• Genealogy • Liturgy• Juvenile books
• Holocaust Survivor Testimonies Video Archives
• Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Collection
• Memorial books (Yizkor books)
• Rare Book Collection
Special collections
• Size• Scope• Emphasis• Languages• Imprints
Rare book collection
• Reference – beginning of stacks on 2nd floor• Books - 2nd floor stacks• Periodicals – 2nd floor stacks • Current periodicals – Periodicals reading room• Media – Media Resource Services• Rare books - Archives• Juvenile collection- 2nd floor
Where has it all gone?
Areas that will be affected:• Circulation• Technical Services• Reference• Archives
What does it mean to the library staff?
• New locations for shelving• New collection identified by spine labels• New borrowers• Increase in number and type of ILL requests
Circulation
• Ordering• Cataloging• Processing
Technical Services
• New students• New programs• New faculty• New subject specialties• New language
Reference
• Databases• Other electronic resources• Journals• Websites
Research
Web Resources
• Reference – JewishEncycolpedia.com – Navagating The Bible (World ORT) – A Page of Talmud (Eliezer Segal) – Jewish Communities of the World (World Jewish Congress) – Jewish Virtual Library (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise)
• Jewish Search Tools – Jewish.com – Andrew Tannenbaum's Judaism and Jewish Resources – MavenSearch: Jewish Web Directory – Shamash: The Jewish Network
• Jewish Studies – Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory – Index of Electronic Resources for Judaic and Cognate Studies (University of Pennsylvania Library) – Judaica Libraries/Judaica Resources (Association of Jewish Libraries) – Middle East and Jewish Studies (Columbia University Libraries) – Academic Guide to Jewish History (University of Toronto Libraries) – JewishGen – Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland
• Jewish Communal Service – StaRGate: Gateway to Jewish Communal Resources – The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore – The Darrell D. Friedman Institute
• Jewish Education – JESNA – Lookstein Virtual Resource Center – CAJE- Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education – Center for Jewish Education
• Jewish Newspapers – The Jerusalem Post – Ha'aretz (Hebrew) – Ha'aretz Online (English) – The Forward – The Baltimore Jewish Times
• Research databases• Subject gateways • Research Port • Journals• E-resources
Guiding research
• Cataloging issues• Problems involving multi-lingual records• Problems resolved with integration of BHU and TU
databases• Accessibility of records:
• In process
BHI collection in the USMAI PAC
Advanced Search• Languages
HebrewYiddish
• CollectionsBaltimore Hebrew Institute
Searching the catalog
Go to WorldCat
• Advanced Search page• Enter search criteria (title, author, etc.)• Scroll down to “Limit availability to: Library Code___”• Enter “BHD”
Locating BHI call numbers
If there is no match in WorldCat• Delete BHD from limiters • Re-run search• Use LC number from any retrieved record to search BHI
collection
Locating BHI call numbers
Tips
Hebrew is different from English.
Tip #1
Hebrew (and Yiddish) reads from right to left
Hebrew (and Yiddish) books open from left to right
Hebrew-English keyboards exist.
Tip #2
Hebrew-English keyboard
Cook Library will have workstations with a Hebrew word processing program.
Tip #3
There are guides to English-Hebrew transliteration.
Tip #4
Hebrew in transliterationhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Last word
Baltimore Hebrew Institute Collection
at Towson University