Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library

Last night we visited the Brodsky Library, the Jewish community library of St. Louis. It feels a lot like a public library, allowing anyone to check out books for a minimal membership fee and serving many patrons who read mainly fiction or are under age eight. All of the collection, including fiction but excluding some children's books, have some Jewish content or theme. There's a fairly large Yiddish collection, a lot of material in Hebrew, and some material (particularly current periodicals) in Russian.

According to librarian Barbara Raznick, the Brodsky Library has the most accessible collection of Holocaust materials in the St. Louis area. Washington University has good material as well, but high school students, for example, have a harder time getting the right to check out books there than at the Brodsky Library.

One of the things I'm learning from this Special Libraries class is the advantages a librarian has if she or he is familiar with other library collections in the area. If I were a reference librarian at Meramec Community College, I would want to send students working on Holocaust projects or doing other research in Judaica to the Brodsky Library, but I knew nothing about it until last night.     #

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