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Librarian's Lobby
by Daniel D. Stuhlman
Columns are written for anyone,
interested in libraries, Jewish books, or Jewish learning including librarians and non-librarians.
If you have any ideas or questions for new columns, please
Many of these columns originally appeared in News and Views = Hadashot
חדשות ,
a publication for the members of the Chicago Rabbinical Council.
View my blog (Kol Safran)
Choose year: 1999
2000 2001
2002 2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Current article
2008
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January
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Research Strategy
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February
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Internet Research using Fuzzy Searches
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March
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Community Resources, the Library and the Agunah Problem
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April
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June
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The Ten Commandments (the term. not the concept)
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July
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Visting Jewish Theological Seminary Library
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August
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2007
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January
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Helping a High School
Student Write About History: Learning about Congregation KINS
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August
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Visit to the National Yiddish Book Center
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2006
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January
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Self Censorship
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February
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Preservation of Parchment
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May
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Making a Compact Disc Album [Double length column]
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June
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Reading Electronic Books
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August
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Librarians and Their Expertise
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2005
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January
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Jewish Storytelling
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February
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Jewish Chaplaincy
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March
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Naming a Baby, "Alter" [This is Purim Torah.]
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April
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Not an Article About Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
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May
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Library Special Collections
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September
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Influential Books [In PDF format requires Acrobat Reader]
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October
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Outwitting History --> Yiddish books part 1 [In PDF format requires Acrobat Reader]
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November
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Yiddish Books part 2 [In PDF format requires Acrobat Reader]
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December
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Banning Books
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2004
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January
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Leadership and Management
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February
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Names and their Importance Part 1
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March
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Biblical Names of God
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April
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Names and their Importance Part II
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May
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Why Do We Spell Joseph and Jacob with a J?
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June |
Commencement Advice for Future Librarians
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August
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The Journey to a Doctorate
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September
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Davar Torah in Honor of My Son's Bar Mitzvah
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October
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Musical Theater
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November
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Special Purims part two
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December
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Practical Halakha “What if?”
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2003
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January
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Book Stores and New Students.
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February
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The Ten Commandments and I.B. Singer
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March
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Happy News: Kosher Meals as a University Recruiting Tool
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April
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Haggadot shel Pesah 5763 update
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May
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Interviewing Skills
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June
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Book Prefaces (Written by a fictional scholar of library science)
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July
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Professional Compensation
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August
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Professional Preparation
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September
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I'm taking a break while I prepare for classes.
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October
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The Tanakh in Libraries
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November
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Seeking Zion -- Tsevi Hirsch Kalischer
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December
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Trademark Violation -- Cease and Decist
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2002
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January
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American Judaica Collections [Note: The web version of the December
column was a double column. The print version published half in December and
half in January.]
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February
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American Judaica Collections part 3
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March
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American Judaica Collections part 4 -- What is Judaica?
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April
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Zeda--In memory of Ephraim Fishel Stuhlman, 1919-2002
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May
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American Judaica Collections part 5 -- George Washington University Library
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June
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Jewish Comedians part I -- Jack Benny
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July
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Jewish Comedians part II -- Danny Kaye
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August
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Jewish Comedians part III -- George Jessel and The Jazz Singer (1927)
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September
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Precision of Language
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October
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Lessons of History
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November
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Too Many Books? -- Dealing with gifts and unwanted books
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December
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The meaning of Abracadabra
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2001
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January
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University of Chicago--Rosenberger Collection of Judaica
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February
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Purim Torah
A Question of Head Gear
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March
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Jewish Studies at Yale University
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May
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Jewish Studies at Washington University of St. Louis
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June
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16th and 17th Century Yiddish books
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September
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Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance
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October
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Knowledge Management and Habad
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December
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American Judaica Collections parts 1 and 2
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2000
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January
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Name Authority.
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February
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Special Purims.
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March
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Pesah story from Harvard University
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April
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Pesah story from Harvard and Passover
among American soldiers (Partly a rewrite of the March issue)
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May
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Etymology and using the Right
Reference Tools
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July
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Summer Library Conferences
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August
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Remembering the accomplishments
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September
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Center for Jewish History; Cataloging knowledge
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October
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Heroes of Jewish Learning (S. Schechter, A. Dushkin)
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November
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Heroes of Learning part two (Rabbi S.Jablon, G.F. Moore,
A. Copland)
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December
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Heroes of Learning part three (Rabbi B. Revel and Dr.
Sylvia B. Fishman)
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1999
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January
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Jewish music exhibit, rabbinic history project, articles by faculty members
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February
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Jewish music exhibit, Mary Heisler
z"l [First part is a repeat of January 1999]
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April
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Recent gifts and a Torah scroll question.
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May
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Roots of Librarianship
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June
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Saving Jewish Books
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July
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Using Periodicals
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August
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{No column}
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September
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Recent gifts, Faculty publications.
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October
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Visiting Rabbi Harold P. Smith.
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December
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Confidential UJA Report .
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1998
Contents
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February
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Haggadot shel Pesah
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March
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The Leningrad Codex part 1
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May
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The Leningrad Codex part 2
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June
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Detective Questions, a Yiddish expression, and a teshuva.
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July
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More on Bankes.
Summer reading
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August
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Mahzorim for High Holy days
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October
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Review of: American Rabbis, by David Zucker.
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November
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Finding a manuscript in a Swiss library.
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December
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6th century
Halakha book, saving Yiddish books, and a Talmud Yerushalmi manuscript
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1997
Contents
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January
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Story of the Two Brothers
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February
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Pesah 1997 Exhibit
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May
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Library reference tools
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July
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Association of Jewish Libraries Cleveland Convention
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August
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Jewish Community of St. Louis
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November
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Current library exhibit
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December
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Finding an 18th century book, a reference question
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