Sun-Sentinel.com reports on Florida Atlantic University’s library, where they recently discovered it had books that a specialized national archive didn’t have.
Boca Raton-based FAU has one of the Southeast’s largest collections of books related to Judaism and Jewish populations, counting about 80,000 volumes. But it is dwarfed by the National Yiddish Book Center, a Massachusetts archive with more than 1.5 million books.
Nonetheless, the book center had only damaged copies — or none at all — of about 1,000 titles that turned up multiple times at FAU as librarians and scholars organized and evaluated the university’s collection last year. FAU recently gave them to the Yiddish Book Center, which makes computerized images of its books and makes printed copies available.
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