Talk:Albert and Temmy Latner Jewish Public Library

Naming convention
Reverted edits made. Do not copy paste article to new location. Read WP:Move and WP:CPMV for reasons why. Also this article is a division of the JPL libraries. See Jewish Public Library (Montreal). Joneboi 16:28, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you say that "this article is a division of the JPL Libraries". Are you saying that Jewish Public Library of Montreal and what was called the Jewish Public Library of Toronto are both part of an entity called "JPL Libraries"? If so, that is simply a falsehood. The 2 had a similarity of name, but that's it. They are - and always have been - totally seprate entities.

It was wrong for someone to call JPL of Montreal just "Jewish Public Library" because (a) the full name is Jewish Public Library of Montreal ; (b) there were (& still are) other Jewish public libraries in other cities (e.g. Winnipeg). That's why I set up the disambiguation page.

With the recent renaming of the Albert & Temmy Latner Jewish Public Library of Toronto as "Toronto Jewish Library", I wanted to fix the inaccuracy of the Wikipedia pages. I wanted those searching specifically for "Jewish Public Library of Toronto" or "Jewish Public Library (Toronto)" to be redirected towards a properly titled article "Toronto Jewish Library".

I tried and I have failed, since others won't let it be.

So, if people continue to think that Wikipedia is inaccurate and unreliable ... well, I guess that I've learned that certain people prefer it that way.

I really don't see what point there is pointing people to an external link that has the proper and current name of an intitiution whose name you don't respect and refuse to properly use.

Jewishlibrarian 03:47, 16 May 2007 (UTC) jewishlibrarian

changes to the JPL of Toronto
There is no longer a library called The Albert & Temmy Latner Jewish Public Library of Toronto or The Toronto Jewish Library.

During the migration from an independent library to one which was part of the Latner Centre for Jewish Knowledge & Heritage (under the auspices of UJA Federation), the library was merged with 2 other collections - The BJE (Board of Jewish Education) Pedgagogic Library and the BJE Media Centre.

Since the merger, the collection has beendrastically reduced, the staff was reduced to a single librarian, and the library was renamed The David & Syma Forberg Media Centre. A website about the Centre may be found at http://cjetoronto.com/page.aspx?id=222670 though it does not provide any history of the collection or of the libraries which preceded it.

sale of the library
The library was sold in 2016 to Mizrahi Bookstore, see here http://judaicaused.blogspot.com/2016/07/recent-acquisition-at-mizrahi-bookstore.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.185.126.20 (talk) 16:14, 31 July 2016 (UTC)