The Charlotte Jewish News - September 2002 - Page 8
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Membership
This is the very important time
of the year when your Carolina
Agency for Jewish Education
(CAJE) annual membership can
make a difference for you and
your family.
Please complete and return the
membership application below
with your check so that you may
enjoy this year’s membership ben
efits. Your CAJE membership is a
tax-deductible donation.
The most important benefit of
your individual or family CAJE
membership entitles you to bor
rowing privileges in the multi-
media Resource Center at Shalom
Park for a whole year.
Membership contributions also
support the workshops, speakers,
newsletters, publications, exhibits,
consultations, reference services
and other programs that CAJE
offers, which reach hundreds of
children, teachers and families in
our community.
As a member-supported
agency, CAJE depends on the
financial support raised through
this, our annual membership cam
paign, as a significant part of our
program budget. We can’t do it
without you.
This year, we are pleased to
offer a special premium gift to
every CAJE individual or family
member who contributes at the
Bonim (Builders) $250 or more
level: BimBam, a weekly Jewish
current events from around the
world newsletter, will be emailed
to your home or office during the
school year as our way of saying
thank you for your extraordinary
support of CAJE in 2002-
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Jewish education in Charlotte, and
in the greater Carolinas region, is
a project of the Carolinas
Association of Jewish Women and
Men (CAJWM) and is funded
through grants from the
Blumenthal Foundation, the
Jewish Federation of Greater
Charlotte, grant funders such as
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc.,
local family foundations, and is
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Speizman Jewish Library
Did You Know?
By Cynthia Chapman
The Speizman Jewish Library
has been using a specialized library
computer program since the begin
ning of 2002 to check books out
and in. The computer allows us to
do a number of things which were
much more difficult to do without
it, such as search for books by
author, title, subject or keyword. It
also makes it easier to generate
reports to help us explain who uses
our library.
Our adult library readers come
to us from across the community.
We have seniors who check out
books when they come to Oasis
programs at the JCC, and unaffili
ated (both Jews and non-Jews)
members of the larger community
who are interested in learning more
about Jewish religion and culture.
Since January, our largest group of
adult readers has come from
Temple Beth El, with over 150
books checked out from January
through June. Temple Israel read
ers are not’too far behind, though,
with over 100 books checked out.
During the school year, we work
with our Religious schools to help
meet the need for extra-curricular
reading with Jewish content and
with books to support the various
curricula of the schools. We
worked with the Charlotte Jewish
Day School in the spring in a spe
cial outreach program. Books were
taken from the library to the Day
School and students checked out
J'eWisI'
books. Close to 300 books were
checked out by the Day School stu
dents.
Students from the Consolidated
High School of Jewish Studies
kept the library busy each
Wednesday night, using books for
research and projects. Many par
ents often come to the library while
their children are at Hebrew High.
Students borrowed books to com
plement their studies. Students
from Temple Israel’s Religious
School used the collection to
expand their Jewish knowledge.
The students from Temple Beth
El’s Religious School were one of
the biggest groups using the library
and they checked out over 100
books, with six teachers encourag
ing and planning class visits.
But the largest number of books
checked out by students in one of
our education^ programs was over
500 books checked out by the
Preschool students from January
through April. We have 263 books
in our collection for their reading
level. Eleven of our Preschool
teachers brought their classes to
the library on a regular basis dur
ing the year. It is wonderful to see
the children’s excitement as they
choose a book. It is so important
for our children to be nurtured with
books containing Jewish ideas and
about Jewish subjects. It helps
reinforce what they are taught at
home and in our schools and syna
gogues.
Teachers from the Preschool,
Hebrew High, and the Religious
schools borrowed 250 books to use
in the classroom, to supplement
other teaching materials they use,
and they even found adult reading
material to enjoy for their own
pleasure.
We have almost 600 people who
have checked out books since we
started circulating with our com
puter software, and we will be
happy to add you as one of our
readers.
We have 4,200 titles in our col
lection and subscribe to 15 maga
zines, including two magazines for
children. If we had to rebuild our
collection at today’s book prices,
spending about $25 per book, it
would cost about $105,000 to
replace our library. Our collection
is a wonderful asset to our commu
nity and we encourage everyone to
come and discover what we have
to offer.
We look forward to working
with all our students and teachers
in the year ahead. It is always a
pleasure to see young readers
excited about a book. As Rosh
Hashanah approaches, we wish all
our readers and friends a sweet and
healthy New Year. Come check out
one of our books on the holidays
and add the sweetness of words to
your celebration, along with the
apples and honey.
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