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erous gift from the Milken Family Foundation. The Milken li
brary o f Arts and Sciences, which forms the backbone o f ou r
non-Judaic collection, has proved vital to the library’s aim o f
providing students with a range o f titles essential to their u n
de rg radua te studies.
These acquisitions, although o f vital importance, are not the
hea rt o f the library’s holdings, which remain in areas related
to Jewish studies. In time the University established a relation
ship with Israeli vendors and distributors, and began a process
o f overseas ordering . Much o f the budget was taken up with
Judaica that did not regularly reach the United States. O f almost
equal interest, however, was the drive to acquire holdings in
modern Hebrew literature. Part o f this trend in acquisition was
due to a particular interest o f Dr. Shub’s in modern Israeli life
and culture. Part o f it was due to the large Israeli community
in Los Angeles, which has grown substantially over the years.
Since the Ostrow library, like the University, services the com
munity as well as its own academic staff and students, many
in the community patronize the library in o rde r to read the
latest literature from Israel, and the library seeks to accommo
date their needs.
DOCUMENTATION CENTER
Dr. Shub re tired from his position as director to supervise
the continued growth o f the Shub Documentation Center. The
Center is a unique collection, the produc t o f a lifetime’s effort
in collecting, collating and organizing information about the ma
jo r topics o f Jewish interest in ou r time.
A fo rm e r official in the American Jewish Committee, Dr.
Shub began a file o f clippings from newspapers and magazines
on subjects o f Jewish interest. At first the file was for personal
use, bu t when Shub became head o f the Ostrow Library, the
file rapidly grew into a Documentation Center, for use by schol
ars and students in various fields.
Today the Center holds some 1.5 million clippings from pe
riodicals in English, Hebrew and Yiddish over the last fifty
years. Some o f the 500 plus newspapers and jou rna ls reviewed
for clipping include: T h e New York Times, the New Republic,
Yiddisher Kemfer, Sovietish Heymland, Ma’ariv, Ha’aretz, The
Forward, Jou rn a l o f Palestine Studies and many others.