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Date :   02/24/2009
First Name :   Poshi
Last Name :   Mikalson
e-mail address :   poshi@bnais.com
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Cong. Bnai Israel Sosnick Library
City, Country :   Sacramento, CA USA
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Date :   2/19/09
First Name :   Rachel
Last Name :   Haus
e-mail address :   rhaus_com@yahoo.com
Do you use Elazar? :   Yes
Name of your library :   Congregation of Moses Library
City, Country :   Kalamazoo Michigan, USA
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Date :   Jan.7, 2009
First Name :   Evelyn
Last Name :   Rosenthal
e-mail address :   evelynr@hvaccess.com
Do you use Elazar? :   no or not yet
Name of your library :   Temple Emanuel Library
City, Country :   243 Albany Ave. Kingston, NY 12401
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I am organizing the Temples very small library and need help finding the best way of organizing it. I am retired academic librarian.
Date :   12-13-08
First Name :   Phyllis
Last Name :   Harp
e-mail address :   pkharp@stx.rr.com
Do you use Elazar? :   Dont know yet.
Name of your library :   Cong. Beth Israel
City, Country :   Corpus Christi, Nueces County,Texas
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Date :   11/25/08
First Name :   Philip
Last Name :   Kruger
e-mail address :   JMLPMK@aol.com
Do you use Elazar? :   Plan to.
Name of your library :   Congregation Agudath Israel of West Essex NJ
City, Country :   Caldwell, NJ
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   We are building a combination beitmidrash (davening space/traditional study hall) and conventioanl library. We could use some advice on several issues apart from classification.
Date :   9/10/2008
First Name :   Howard
Last Name :   Lepolstat
e-mail address :   teachecomp@aol.com
Do you use Elazar? :   Not decided yet
Name of your library :   Cong. Beth Emeth
City, Country :   Sun City West, Arizona, USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I am just beginning a major reorganization of our library. You have a great resource. Todah rabbah.
Date :   7/28/2008
First Name :   Val
Last Name :   Morehouse
e-mail address :   valm.library@temple-isaiah.org
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Temple Isaiah
City, Country :   Lafayette, CA, USA
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Date :   March 19, 2008
First Name :   Madeleine
Last Name :   Oakley
e-mail address :   madeleine.oakley@adasisrael.org
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Adas Israel Congregation
City, Country :   Washington, D.C.
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Date :   October 26, 2007
First Name :   Lois
Last Name :   Rosen
e-mail address :   lmrosen_2000@yahoo,com
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Kehillat Israel
City, Country :   Lansing, Michigan, USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   This site is an excellent resource. I am now using Temple Sinai online catalog to find numbers for our new books. Thank you so much for access to this site!
Date :   September 19, 2007
First Name :   Marsha
Last Name :   Lustigman
e-mail address :   m.lustigman@bialikmtl.ca
Do you use Elazar? :   no
Name of your library :   Bialik High School
City, Country :   Montreal, Canada
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Date :   12 August 2007
First Name :   Ray
Last Name :   McIntyre
e-mail address :   kiwimac@gmail.com
Do you use Elazar? :   No
Name of your library :   Personal
City, Country :   Canterbury, NZ
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   As a librarian I am fascinated by classification schemes.
Date :   4/15/07
First Name :   Amy
Last Name :   Stempler
e-mail address :   astemp@gwu.edu
Do you use Elazar? :   no
Name of your library :   student
City, Country :   Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Great resource, thanks so much for putting on the web! Im using it for a research paper in my Cataloging course at Pratt in New York. Fascinating family story too!
Date :   3.31.07
First Name :   Seth
Last Name :   Linfield
e-mail address :   SLinfield@lehrmanschool.org
Do you use Elazar? :   not yet
Name of your library :   Lehrman Community Day School
City, Country :   Miami Beach, FL, USA
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Date :   1/7/2007
First Name :   Patricia
Last Name :   Deutsch
e-mail address :   pldeutsch@verizon.net
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Hebrew Academy of Huntington Beach
City, Country :   Huntington Beach, California USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Ive been using an old edition and just purchased the new (1998) edition and was looking for updates to the new edition
Date :   Dec. 24, 2006
First Name :   Susanne
Last Name :   Batzdorff
e-mail address :   sbatz@sonic.net
Do you use Elazar? :   Yes
Name of your library :   Celia Gurevitch Library
City, Country :   Santa Rosa, CA USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   
 
 
Date :   November 21, 2006
First Name :   Patricia
Last Name :   Brenner
e-mail address :   pbrenner@georgianc.on.ca
Do you use Elazar? :   no
Name of your library :   Am Shalom Shul Libary
City, Country :   Barrie, Ontario Canada
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   We have a very small library, maybe 500 books; found your essay and classification very helpful.
Date :   
First Name :   
Last Name :   Ferziger
e-mail address :   harif@pacbell.net
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Cong. Kol Emeth
City, Country :   Palo Alto, CA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Having a removable index would be extremely useful! I tried scanning it with an OCR program and it was a complete failure.
Date :   9/29/06
First Name :   shirley
Last Name :   maccabee
e-mail address :   shirleym@astound.net
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Temple Isaiah
City, Country :   Lafayette, California
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   
Date :   9/28/06
First Name :   Val
Last Name :   Morehouse
e-mail address :   valm.library@temple-isaiah.org
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Cantor Ted Cotler Library of Temple Isaiah
City, Country :   Lafayette, California in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Going look at your added numbers
Date :   9/26/2006
First Name :   Carol
Last Name :   Schaengold
e-mail address :   cschaengold@templesinaidc.org
Do you use Elazar? :   Yes
Name of your library :   Temple Sinai Library
City, Country :   Washington, DC
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   How are updates to the classification system communicated to judaic libraries? When will a new edition be published? Thanks!
Date :   march 9 2006
First Name :   Henie
Last Name :   Krishtalka
e-mail address :   heie2@hotmail.com
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Herzliah High School
City, Country :   MOntreal Quebec Canada
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I have found Elazar easy to use. I have inherited from the librarian before me. We are a small high school of 254 students from grades 7 to 11. She expanded the J736 area on her own. Now I use the software Bookware which now exports hebrew records in hebr
Date :   February 17, 2006
First Name :   Beila
Last Name :   Organic
e-mail address :   halbeila@verizon.net
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Isaac Franck Library of the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning
City, Country :   Rockville, Maryland, USA; actually the greater Washington metropolitan area, via the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Our main collection of 12,000 cataloged entries is in LC, but reference, and the resource and childrens materials were changed to Elazar because of its Judaic compatibility, ease of use and heuristic advantages.
Date :   2/14/06
First Name :   Dulcie
Last Name :   Burns
e-mail address :   burnsj3@earthlink.net
Do you use Elazar? :   Not yet
Name of your library :   Temple Beth Torah
City, Country :   Wellington, Florida USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I have offered to catalog the library at Temple Beth Torah. The books are presently in no order. I am not a Librarian, so I needed a system that applied to Judaica. Im just learning. Im sure this system will be perfect for our application.
Date :   13 december 2005
First Name :   Sonia
Last Name :   Zilzer
e-mail address :   biblioteca@uic.org.ve
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Biblioteca Leo y Anita Blum
City, Country :   Caracas Venezuela
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   We used Elazar since year 2000, when our library started. we are like the it, but it will be good to have a spanish version.
Date :   10-31-2005
First Name :   Heather
Last Name :   Everett
e-mail address :   heathersblue@sbcglobal.net
Do you use Elazar? :   
Name of your library :   
City, Country :   Norman, Oklahoma
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Im working on an LIS degree and am writing a paper on your classification system.
Date :   6/30/05
First Name :   Val
Last Name :   Morehouse
e-mail address :   valmorehouse@earthlink.net
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Temple Isaiah Library
City, Country :   in Lafayette, CA 94549 USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Are you putting out updates to the numbers in the 1997 edition?
Date :   15 May 2005
First Name :   Joachim
Last Name :   Schapiro
e-mail address :   js007c9266@blueyonder.co.uk
Do you use Elazar? :   no
Name of your library :   Library of BWP Jewish Congregation
City, Country :   Bristol, United Kingdom
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I am the librarian of the synagogue library of about 1000 books. Our system is similar to Elazar and I wish to use Elazar to refine it.
Date :   4/6/05
First Name :   Carolyn
Last Name :   Brook
e-mail address :   carolynb59@yahoo.com
Do you use Elazar? :   Yes
Name of your library :   Woodstock Jewish Congregation
City, Country :   Woodstock, NY
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Im using Elazar classification and getting my MARC records from the LC Z39.50 gateway. Do you have a list of online library catalogs using Elazar?
Date :   05-03-01
First Name :   Keren
Last Name :   Camenietzki
e-mail address :   c.shalom@sympatico.ca
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   First Narayever Congregation
City, Country :   Toronto, ON Canada
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Excellent for a synagogue library. Do you have a thesaurus of subject headings for this class. system?
Date :   Dec. 28, 2004
First Name :   Elaine
Last Name :   Hirsch
e-mail address :   elaineh@bjephoenix.org
Do you use Elazar? :   yes
Name of your library :   Bureau of Jewish Education Jewish Community Library and Resource Center
City, Country :   Scottsdale, Arizona
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   Our library has been using the Elazar Classification System since 1988, and have been very pleased. Do you intend to develop another edition. Any recommendation on automating a library which uses the Elazar system of classification? Thank you! Elaine Hir

Date :   11/10.04
First Name :   Rita
Last Name :   Schneider
e-mail address :   Ritas@midsouth.rr.com
Do you use Elazar? :   not ;yet
Name of your library :   Baron Hirsch Synagogue Library
City, Country :   Memphis, Tennessee USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I am interested in knowing more about the Elazar System for our shul library which we are in the process of revamping.
Date :   7/1/04
First Name :   Sharon
Last Name :   Herman
e-mail address :   hermunstr@comcast.net
Do you use Elazar? :   not yet
Name of your library :   Temple Sinai
City, Country :   Dresher, Pa USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I am looking to computer catalog the library
Date :   04/12/04
First Name :   Heather
Last Name :   Lenson
e-mail address :   HeatherLenson@adelphia.net
Do you use Elazar? :   no
Name of your library :   MLIS Student
City, Country :   Cleveland, USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   These chapters are wonderful. I am studying issues concerning Hebraica and Judaica classification. This helps me tremendously!!!
Date :   12-30-03
First Name :   Laura
Last Name :   Hollingsed
e-mail address :   lkholling@aol.com
Do you use Elazar? :   not at this time
Name of your library :   Univ. of Texas at El Paso
City, Country :   El Paso, Texas, USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I just found out about your classification system from a co-worker, and I am very interested.
Date :   29.12.2003
First Name :   Berta
Last Name :   Beri
e-mail address :   bertaberi@hotmail.com
Do you use Elazar? :   no
Name of your library :   Library of ORZSE
City, Country :   Budapest, Hungary
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I like to know Eleazar.
Date :   February 1, 2003
First Name :   Richard
Last Name :   Cohn
e-mail address :   rcohn3@adelphia.net
Do you use Elazar? :   not yet
Name of your library :   Temple Beth El Israel
City, Country :   Port St. Lucie, Florida
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   I am just beginning to organize and invigorate the dormant under-utilized library. Investigating various reference systems.
Date :   11/11/02
First Name :   Deborah
Last Name :   Richman
e-mail address :   pdrichman@hotmail.com
Do you use Elazar? :   Y
Name of your library :   North Shore Jewish Center Library
City, Country :   Port Jefferson Station NY USA
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   
Date :   10/11/02
First Name :   Zamira
Last Name :   Rajchgod
e-mail address :   
Do you use Elazar? :   no
Name of your library :   DATA Audio Tape Library
City, Country :   Dallas TX 75230
Please comment (255 characters limit) :   recommended that I look into it by librarian
First Name :   Sara
Last Name :   Marcus
e-mail address :   smmb66@mizzou.edu
Do you use Elazar? :   no
Name of your library :   
City, Country :   Columbia, MO, US Bayside, NY, US
Please comment :   After examining this classification scheme as a possible topic to be taught in an advanced cataloging course at UMC (University of Missouri-Columbia), I have to say that it is very applicable to a Judaic dayschool/high school collection. The book is very
First Name :   Roneen
Last Name :   Levy
e-mail address :   ronniandlew@earthlink.net
Do you use Elazar? :   
Name of your library :   
City, Country :   Lakeland,FL
Please comment :   I am just beginning to study the guidelines for establishing a children's media center and for managing the existing adult library at the local synagogue. All help is greatly appreciated.
First Name :   Jessica
Last Name :   Cavanagh
e-mail address :   USFWinter@aol.com
Do you use Elazar? :   Yes
Name of your library :   Temple B'nai Abraham Library
City, Country :   Decatur, Illinois, USA
Please comment :   I just started working on our badly negleted library a few weeks ago through a project for the gifted program in my school district. I actually found your website before I realized that, originally, the library had been organized using the first edition o