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Slide1: JSP
Jewish Studies Portal
Slide2: It’s 1 a.m. … the world is asleep …
Slide3: except for Plony and Plonit
Slide4: They are frantically finishing their HUC research papers
Slide5: They need articles and texts … But the library is closed and the librarians are asleep
Slide6: The Light Dawns! They remembered that they had set up the Jewish Studies Portal
Slide7: It’s JSP to the rescue!
Slide8:
TJ Williams (NY) (twilliam@huc.edu)
Mark Jennings (Cin) (mjennings@huc.edu)
Jen Plante (LA) (jplante@huc.edu)
John Bruggeman (Jer) (jbruggeman@huc.edu)
Help! Sure! I.T. in a box
;-)
Slide9: They had gone to
http://jsp.huc.edu
and logged in
pbenplony **********
Slide10: They saw lots of great resources …
Slide11: But Wait!
Since this was their first time using JSP on their computer,
they had to download the program that runs it. Click here or here
Slide12:
TJ Williams (NY) (twilliam@huc.edu)
Mark Jennings (Cin) (mjennings@huc.edu)
Jen Plante (LA) (jplante@huc.edu)
John Bruggeman (Jer) (jbruggeman@huc.edu)
Once again, the friendly HUC IT folks, were happy to help with questions about loading the program. Call us! e-mail us! send us a post card!
Slide13: Hurray! Time to
get started!
Slide14: There are lots of search options
Slide15: DavkaWriter lets you do word
processing in both Hebrew and
English. Different versions of
DavkaWriter do not speak
to each other – i.e. You can’t
open a DW5 document in a
later or earlier version
Encyclopaedia Judaica : Encyclopaedia Judaica CD-ROM
based on the
1974 EJ
Slide17:
Plonit remembered to ask her local librarian for the login and password. Encyclopaedia Judaica 2007
Slide18: In English or Hebrew Pick your
texts
to search
Slide19: Online Library Resources HUH? Periodical Indexes! HUH?
Slide20: Online Library
Resources This is the place to click if you are looking for Articles in Journals or Essays in Books Click on ATLA You can search the ATLA (American Theological Library Association) database and the Index to Jewish Periodicals
Slide21: Responsa, Yes, but so much more! Tanakh! Midrash Talmud Commentaries
Slide22: The Jewish Studies Portal
gives you all this and … Printing! Saving to
your
computer
Slide23: Plonit and Plony are thrilled!
They find everything they need –
They get “A”s on their papers They send their IT maven and their librarian flowers