All About Our Private Home Library | Opening a Private Library | Jar of Fireflies
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2024
- Today we will talk all about having a home library and what it takes for me to categorize and organize mine in a way that works both for our family and to open it up to the public.
00:00 Intro
01:20 How do we get our books
03:06 Why build a library
04:25 Color coding
06:12 Shelf tour / Categories
8:54 Splitting up fiction
10:18 Computer system
13:04 Checking out books
14:47 Library supplies box
15:35 How it’s going
16:29 Processing a book
20:15 Opening to the public?
22:55 Bookmarks
23:44 Closing
24:40 Outtakes
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All About Our Private Home Library | Orthodox Jewish Mom (Jar of Fireflies)
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Hello and welcome! My name is Chana, I’m married to my best friend, and we have four wonderful children together. We also happen to be Orthodox Jews and we homeschool our kids. This video is a sneak peek into our daily lives :) You can see how this particular Jewish homeschool mom sets up her days, rolls with the punches, and gets it all done. Thanks for watching!
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I hope all who celebrated had an AMAZING Purim yesterday! Stay tuned for next week for my Purim celebration ❤
Can't wait! I so enjoy your videos as a glimpse into a very different Jewish life!
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn thank you! Hope you enjoy! ❤️
Your organization skills are so cool! Make me want to do the same❤❤❤
Good morning Chana and firefly kiddos 💕 💖
It was also Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday (do they always land on Purim?) They were saying in church how Passion Sunday doesn't usually fall on Palm Sunday. It was fun though. I DMed you yesterday about it.
Although I am not Jewish, this by far my absolute favorite family channel. Too many of these "family" channels are all about "Look at me! Look at how fabulous my life is. Look at me!" I am inspired after watching every video. I am more connected to my faith. My relationship with my husband is improving, VERY slowly, but still. And I'm feeling better about my role as a mother. I feel good after watching any video! I don't go away feeling like I'm lacking in my life. Thank you! Also, I suffer from severe depression and these videos are part of my care plan! So again, thank you. Much love from Wisconsin!
Thank you so much Emily! That is so kind of you to say :) I am so happy to hear what a positive impact my channel has had on you! It is really encouraging and helps me keep going with this!!! I wish you all the best and may you have peace and happiness!
@@jaroffireflies You are inspirational! And the LOVE you have for your family is so apparent and beautiful and although we are strangers on the Internet, please know that you really are helping more people than you know and God is watching over you. The darkness in my life is slowly getting lighter and I am always SO excited to see any video you upload! Thank you for this channel and for sharing so much with the WORLD that is positive and wholesome!
Thank you Emily thank you
Since early childhood, books have been my friends. This video makes my HEART SING!! I still collect books to this day, and I love them still ❤
That's awesome!
The idea of a private library where you can share your resources with your friends and eventually, your neighborhood, is such a cool and cute idea. Along with the snack baskets you made for Purim, I love seeing communities (and neighborhoods) acting as a village 🤝🏾 than strangers. We need more of that ❤️
Thanks :) I totally agree. Community absolutely matters and is really lacking in so much of modern society.
Love how much you light up when you talk about your library development 📚❤️📚
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I’m now INSPIRED!! As a former children’s minister and first grade teacher I, too, have almost 1,000 books. My son just graduated from college and my daughter is in college but I am going to do this for whenever I have grands. Until then I can share with my neighborhood littles!
I’m so happy to hear this!!!! Amazing!!! I had my friend over yesterday who runs a library at a local school and she was really impressed with the set up and said it’s perfect ❤️
Your library is such a wonderful resource for family and friends. 📚
Thank you 😊
How impressive and what a wonderful legacy for your family and friends!
Thank you 😊
Books and the public library saved my life when I was a child. Love that you are sharing your love of reading not only with your children but your community. Your video inspires me to finally create a home library. Thanks for the inspiration!! (And I love me a good library book sale, too.)
Yay! Happy library creating!!!
What a wonderful gift for your family. Imagination and knowledge are invaluable tools your children will use their whole lives. Blessings to you all from a fellow book worm🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thank you so much!
I have LOVED books since my mother first brought me to the library at age 5 or 6. I love library book sales!! There is nothing like a nice book!!! ❤
I totally agree!
Has anyone told you lately how fantastic you are? The library is amazing. I’m in awe of you. Definitely setting your children up for success.
Wow, thank you!
Wow, you are amazing. As a teacher for over 20 years, I am impressed and inspired by your love of sharing knowledge and literature.
Wow, thank you! 😊
Beautiful! Back in the early 90’s -before the internet- I did this for our homeschool by hand with paper and pencil! It was a job at used book sales searching through my notebook!😊 best days of my life💕
That is so amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Love how serious you are about your books, what a fabulous idea and awesome organization. 😊
Thank you! 😊
Keep the mind clean and pure. Leaving the gross, vulgar, puer garbage at the public library. Love it!
Glad you enjoyed! Not all the library is bad, but it is really nice to have a vetted library like this available :)
Chanita, you are a gem in this Universe. Thank you for being of service to humanity. Your family is truly blessed.
Wow, thank you 😊
This is such a cool idea and what a fun project!! I bet your kids are the coolest around, they can brag, oh come over to our library!!! ❤❤❤great work as always 😂
Yesss! Love that! Thank you :)
Thank you so much for telling me about Library Thing! I was trying to figure out how to figure out how to keep track of my 6yo books.
I seriously cannot recommend this app enough. It has totally helped me so much with the organization and knowing what we have.
I am so impressed! I love to read-even though I haven’t had the time to do so lately. I was a library aide for a year in a middle school and loved every minute of it. (I took a break from teaching pre-k that year.) I read so many books that year. The one thing that prevents me from loaning out many of my books is that I forgot who I leant them to and I have ending up not getting some of them back.😢 This program would be a great help in inventorying our books. I just realized that I have 3 copies of “Love You Forever” that I bought over the years for my children and grandchildren. -not the only book I have multiple copies of because I forget what I have.
I am looking forward to next week’s Purim video.
Have a blessed week and Shabbat.
So fun that you got to work in a real library! Yes, I also would forget who I would loan things out to. I am really happy to have a system to take care of that now.
I just finished cleaning our book cases for pesach. Most likely have over 1000 books never counted.... we have both Hebrew and English for all ages. We all love books and they r definitely a favourite gift by us. I have books that were mine when I was a child . But also some that belonged to my parents and grandparents. I am very impressed by the way u sorted your library out. It's lovely u get to share it with others
That is awesome!
Wow! Amazing. I absolutely love your little library. I have tons of books plus a few from when I was a child and a lot of books my sons books when they were younger. I think your idea is wonderful! I worked in the library when I was a teacher’s aide an hour every day. I loved it. You are so creative Chana. Best of luck! 😊
Thank you Debbie!
Such great ideas for a home library
Glad you think so!
What a generous soul you have. I love books and can see you do too and this is a labour of love ❤️
Aw thank you Julia!
Oh my gosh, so impressive!!!!!!!
Thank you so much 😊
As a person with autism I love colour coding systems as it helps me remember where to place things or helps me with learning how to use something 😎
I love your library - and your outtakes 😂❤
Thank you!
Love the library. Thank you so much for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
When I was in middle school my friends and I tried to create a library in the garage. It didn't last very long, and it wasn't nearly this organized, but your video reminded me of how passionate I was as a young tween about collecting books and sharing them with people. I don't purchase books as often anymore (libraries for the win!), but this video gave me such a smile remembering when this was a dream of mine, and it reminded me that it's something totally still doable one day in the future if I want to try it again!
That is amazing! I love that so much!
Your library is amazing!
Thank you Jane!
Absolutely amazing! I am so impressed, and wished I had this system when I was teaching third grade. I loved building my classroom library and used my summers to go to garage sales and thrift stores to make some bargain purchases. Your passion for books and learning is so evident. 😊
So fun! Thank you for sharing :)
Wow! Love the fiction organized by date published. Good idea.
That's a lovely library. Thanks for Library Thing reference! ❤🇨🇦
You are so welcome! I am so glad it was helpful!
❤ beautiful... thank you for sharing...❤
Thank you for watching!
I never loan out my books! I have never received a loaned book back.
I love your organization system. My ADHD and OCD would prevent me from doing anything like this, it’s very overwhelming but I am glad it works for your family. I LOVE the idea and was very interested in your video!! Here is to hoping people actually return your books! ❤
I am so sorry you have had bad experiences loaning out books! I have had that happen once, and they swore they returned it but they definitely didn't, and it was one I needed and I have to buy it again. But that's ok. Luckily it was not expensive. I won't loan out to that person again.
@jaroffireflies You should order a stamp that says something like, 'This book belongs to the firefly library' and stamp the inside of each book. That way people won't accidentally return the book to the public library.
Definitely! great suggestion!
Oh yes! You're living my dream. It is a awesome idea and plan.
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A library is a center of learning.
I always made books a priority for my daughter. She loved her school's reading loft. Her room always had a book case full of beloved books like," One of a kind of Family!"
That is about an Orthodox family in turn of the century America!
Robin scored in the top 1% of standardized reading test in 6th and 7th grade.
She is an adult now and is still a great reader.
You are so much on track with your home library!
I loved this video!
We just started reading All of a Kind Family for the first time and we loooove it!
Never get between me and my books. They've been my friends forever! My dad taught high school English, so I guess I got my love of reading from him. Love your library Chana!
Love that!!!
Loving the private library and the community bond, kudos
Thank you!
Functional and neat system. Looks great! So much hard work you've done!
It really is!
Absolutely amazing! What an awesome resource for your family’s friends & neighbours! ❤
Thank you!
This is wonderful, Chana! Thank you for sharing your system!
My pleasure!
Amazon makes coasters made out of old library due date cards!
ETA I have thought of the Saturdays off and on over the years, trying to remember the name of the series. I am soooooo happy I watched and paid attention to this video!!!!!
That’s amazing! Both things!
I love the color coded organization. Such a great idea and very generous of you to offer this resource to your friends!
Thank you so much!
I love your outtakes.💜💐
thank you for the reminder, i need to go get a new library card. hope yall had a good and fun Purim. cant wait to see yalls outfits!
Thank you!
I am a fast reader. When I was a kid, I had books all over the place in the house, and frequently ran out of room. The Kindle was my saving grace. Suddenly I could have my books everywhere with me! I I have over 5K books on my Kindle over the years and a very select collection of hard cover books at home, mostly religious, art, cookbooks, and non- fiction.
Wow that is amazing!
Loved the more extensive video about your library. Thanks for mentioning the app - I just downloaded it so I too can keep track of all of my books. You are a gem ! Keep up the great work on your videos.
You are so welcome! I am os glad the app will be helpful for you! Its a game changer for me when I am at library sales and book shops for sure! Enjoy!
I love your collection and organization!! Your video has me thinking of the card catalog libraries had way back when. Fond memories! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching! I would LOVE a card catalog lol
Love the Israel shape necklace.
Thank you!
Maybe I have commented on this already. This channel is so helpful and soothing at the same time.
Aw thank you so much Molly! That means so much to me!
Good afternon to everyone ☕🤍
Your library It really looks amazing! The coses sistem, the subjecte classificacions, t'he variety of age reading orientacions...
What a nice feeling to see someone enjoying while us doing a task and pit a lot of effort and love on what you do.
I enjoyed a lot seeing the real proces of informatic classification with the app. Must be so fun to do📚🔖💕
Thank you 😘
Yay, thank you!
Thank you ! You have inspired me to organize our home library this way. It gets caotic when kids get them out of the shelves or we bring more books home. ❤ Love your content. You are amazing! Blessings.
I am so happy this was helpful! Have fun organizing!
@@jaroffireflies Thank you 💕
Have a great week and a peaceful Shabbat
Thank you Susan!
now this is the video i’ve been waiting for :) well your other videos are awaited but for this.. the anticipation is real
Hope you enjoyed it! Yayyy 😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️
Love it! What a great project!
Thanks so much!
Have you ever read Jonathan Livingston Seagull? My first grade teacher read it to us during quiet time and I remember being mesmerized.
Not yet but I’ll have to look into that! Thanks for the recommendation!
Oh Chana, this is pure bliss! You have encouraged me to go and get the large bookshelves back out of storage, along with the boxes of books that go in there. When we moved home 3.5 years ago, I took a 'temporary' pile of books for myself and Iris but I have obviously, ha ha, added to them in the same way you have. Now I have no room left in my one bookshelf. I love the whole idea of the system and colours. If hubby read then I would have to be careful as he is red/green colour blind! The whole shelf with Mama Homeschool had me nodding with joy as I have them all as well. Honestly, you could be a private library consultant and I would pay for you to organise mine. I think your sharing with friends is a blessing for everyone. All I can say is BRAVO! I love it all.
Thank you so much dear Cate! Yes! Go organize those books! I just love a full book shelf!!! Also, book consultant = my new dream job!
Love this, as a homeschooling bibliophile grandma. Nice!😍
Love that! Thank you!
Love the library! I always wanted to do this but my first husband made me sell most of my collection because he had grown tired of lugging them every time we moved. Made me sad.
I give my grand children books for Easter just as I did by own boys. As well as giving board games or science related things.
Oh moving scares me because of how many books lol Love that you gift your grands books!
Oh my family and I also have a lot of books, too many. I don't know what to do with them as there is not enough storage space or book shelves for them. I wish there was an order and that I could also open a public library like you.
You could totally organize and make it happen! It takes time but the kids were super into it and have helped a lot.
Love your set up!!! I use to play library when I was little. This is an adult version!!!
Love that!
Good job ❤
Thank you so much!
Wow. This is so wonderful! I love it.
Thank you!
Elizabeth Enright is one of my favorite authors. There are at least 3 books that follow the Saturdays. Hope you enjoy it!
Good to know! Thank you!
Very smart organizing!Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I love that you featured lesser known books of Anne of Green Gables. Lucy Maud Montgomery , though originally from Prince Edward Island , actually lived her adult life mainly in a rural town in Ontario not too far from Toronto . Her home and the church her husband was pastor for are across the street from each other and open to the public, and I’ve been there a couple of times with guided tours.
Oh that’s so cool! Thank you for sharing ❤️
@@jaroffireflies I am amazed that you are up this late, with how early you get up with your little one! I also have visited the home of Louisa May Alcott in Concord Massachusetts years ago , which was super exciting to me to visualize the life of the Marches! I love your library organization! I used to volunteer at the library at my kid’s school, and that was so fulfilling!
@@lisacohen1490 I’m going to bed soon lol So fun that you have been to those places!!! The kids really want to go to little house on the prairie locations so I’ve been looking into that.
I would love to see a video where you show us all your homeschooling books with the red stickers! I am hoping to home-school when mine are old enough and would love to start learning about the different home-schooling philosophies like Charlotte Mason.
Thank yo so much for the suggestion!
Loved your comment about your "spare time"haha...
Love your library and your heart for literature!
Thank you 😊 So happy you enjoyed!
I think this is so beautiful!!!!!! I love your channel so much, ❤❤❤❤
Aw thank you so much!!! ❤❤❤
Oh I love love love this❤
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It looks beautiful. I am happy for you.
Thank you!
Love your library ❤
Thank you!
You’ve done a fantastic job, well done!
Thank you very much!
I’m in Australia and I live next door to the library my children have grown up in the library and I have been in the book club for over 10 years I also love the library book sales and my home library has many of the books I bought from the sales just like you have 😊
How wonderful!
I am an avid reader and love books. I have passed that love to my children and now my 10 grandchildren. I think what you have done is absolutely amazing. Something that we do to share the abundance of books our family has is about 2-3 times a year we do a book exchange. The kids and grandchildren pick a few of their favorite books, we gather at one of our house, we allow the books to be exchanged( borrowed) by others in the family. We have cookies and milk and someone reads aloud to the group. It’s a great reading and sharing day. The most recent one, my 10 year old granddaughter shared her love of the artist Frida Kahlo (she even dresses like her ). It was so fun!! ❤
I love that! Thank you for sharing :)
Hi Chana, I hope you & your family enjoyed the Purim celebrations 🥰 For anyone who loves books (me !🤓) this is the dream, so lovely too to share your books with friends & I love all the little touches such as the book marks 😊
Thank you!!! Books are just the best!
I love this especially the color coding system and the LibraryThing app. Great tips. I also love books and have used FOL extensively. I have not previously considered a home library but I certainly have enough books for that. I am also a piano teacher with a large music library. Over the years I have allowed students to borrow music books. Thank you for showing step by step how you catalog a new book. Maybe it’s time for a new system! Thanks again.
Glad it was helpful!
I have about 5,000 books ( been collecting for many many years- I’m 73 ). and I had an idea of making a lending library also.
Yes the quality has changed !!! Most of mine have Christian values etc
Great ideas !!
If your interested in opening a library, if you google “living library” you can see a lot of examples of smaller private libraries like this opening up across the country ❤️
I love this!
Yay! So glad!
This is a wonderful video! If love for you to go into detail of some of the shelves and why you recommend them. Or create a reading list for kids.
You also need a stamp to put your name / library name in the book!
I do need to get a stamp for sure! I’ve done some book videos, have you seen those?
This is sooo helpful! Thank you very much!!!
You're so welcome! I am so happy this was helpful!
This was such a neat video! I really enjoy all things organizational and literary. When our daughter was little, she shelved all of her books like a small library with non-fiction assigned Dewey decimals and fiction assigned slots by the author’s last names. She now is a post doc teaching writing and Shakespeare.
That is awesome!
Love this system! Would love to see a tour of your Jewish Bookshelf one day…ie Siddurim, Tamuld, etc. Im sure I’d be super jealous and proud as a fellow Sephardic Jew here in New England. Great job!!!!
I really need to make that video!
congratulations, looks great
Thank you!
Awesome...so cool
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you very interesting and good idea about the books,
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are a wonderful soul!
Aw, thank you!
Another excellent video! Thanks for promoting literacy and scholarship.
My pleasure! SO happy to hear that you enjoyed!
Your book collection reminded me of a book my friend wrote called "Find Fivel"; I so need to work on my book collection.
Suuuuch an inspiration!!!! ❤
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I absolutely love how organized your library is! I've always had lots and lots of books (okay, maybe not 1,000+ but still lots 😂). I've tried so many times to organize them but they're always put back in the wrong place (hint: even adult kids do this 🤦♀️).
I love your color-coding idea! I've actually done that with office files back in the day when we had files cabinets and tons of paper. Each letter had a different color so, when I opened a drawer, I knew immediately if something was misfiled. But, it also made it easier for my employees to refile folders like it does for your children. I wish I had done that at home with the books.
BTW, I recognized quite a few of your books especially the Charlotte Mason ones! Love, love, love the Handbook of Nature Study and The Fallacy Detective. I wish you much hatzlacha with your library!
Thank you thank you!
Speaking of books! I have just read the book “South of Sepharad: The 1492 Jewish Expulsion from Spain”, a novel by Eric Z. Weintraub. Wow, what a book. The characters are so rich and true. They are brave, true, and heroic, to be sure, but they are also confused, frightened, floundering, and fallible. The description of their places and time are brilliant, so that people and events are firmly seated in the realities of the world they lived in. Can you tell that I am blown away by this book? My only regret is that it ended too soon. Eric Weintraub, if you are reading this, please continue these character’s lives! Anyway, this review comes from an old Christian who wants to know more about Sephardic Orthodox Jews because I follow Jar of Firefles. Thank you Chana!
Oh wow! I have read one historical fiction novel from this time period and would love to read more. Thanks for sharing about this one! I will look into it.
I built a large part of my personal library from the Friends of Library Sales, half price books and thrift books online. I got a surprising number of Jewish books there as well.
Oh I love Half Price Books too!
Your home library and its organization is amazing. Bravo bravo to you 👏🏼👏🏼.. your children are getting such a wonderful exposure to literature of all types ( or is proper grammar kind, I never remember this rule☹️) and such a wonderful education. I am in awe of the job you are doing as chief educator in your family. Again , 👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you so much!
Wow, a ton of books 📕. I think it’s great that your kids are good readers. I’m an avid reader, I started listening to audiobooks. We have moved a lot due to my husband’s job. I usually keep my favorite books and put the rest outside in a box with a sign that says “free books “ .In our development, there are “mini libraries” , you can put the books you are done with and take a few if you wish. These mini libraries are about every block or so.
That is awesome!
Impressive. I'm going to check out the computer program you are using for the library. I collect the works of certain authors, certain subjects, etc. Yes, I have bought the same book twice before. If it has a DVD catalogue, that would be great also. What fun! 🙂
Enjoy the site!
Wow on the book collection and library. You are becoming the keeper of all the books to share with the community. I can buy books from the local charity shops from 10p each and have given them away to others like my niece and nephew. I think I saw that book, the Saturdays in one of the charity shops in the past week. You will probably meet so many people in the community with the library.
I am definitely hoping to get to know more people in my community through this :)
I love your library. I always wanted to be a librarian. ❤❤❤📚
Me too 😊
Love the color code
Its been a game changer!
Hannah what a wonderful idea for your library and I totally agree that it should be friends , people from your synagogue and home schooling that you know it is in your home and the room where you homeschool your children and you want this to enrich your love of books not be something that becomes a job .
Again fabulous idea .
Thank you Linda!