Needle in the Bookstacks - Library Blog

I love the end of the budget year! When all the research and curricular materials have been added to our collection, and some money is left in the budget, my inner Israeli signals “go for it!” This is when I go shopping for books that illuminate contemporary interests of the Israeli cultural and academic universes, just in case somebody will come looking…

Some stories are better told from the end. Being an avid reader of stories, I know that the good ones reveal what you had hoped for as they unfold: a great plot, fascinating characters, and amazing chapters that make up the book of life as they take you on the journey back in time.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Dvora Weisberg, Director, School of Rabbinic Studies; Associate Professor of Rabbinical Literature in Los Angeles, about her latest book, Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism (Brandeis University Press, 2009)

Have you noticed these funny looking checker-board codes sprinkled in the journal section of the Frances-Henry Library?

Every library contains at least a few hidden treasures- things which are not immediately noticeable, which you just chance on in the course of browsing the stacks, but which, once noticed, immediately demand attention because they are truly extrao