Pamphlets, Placards and Pashkevillin

00:21 We have discussed in the previous lectures about the collections, the scanned seforim in the-- of the library that are scanned and posted on the site of the library. Several years ago, we, the library, has decided to scan and post on the site of the library also the single pages printed over the years in a period of about three hundred years, starting in the year of sixteen fifty-one until the year of nineteen-twenty, nineteen-sixty. Starting the year of תשא until תש"ך. It's a huge collection. In the early years, they are rare. In the later years, every institution constantly prints pages for public appeals, for regulations, or for anything, including all Chabad houses over-- around the world. The Rebbe has asked each shliach to send him constant reports of the activity. In these reports, they added the publications, the appeals, and pages that they printed, posters or anything like that. It's a huge collection of about a hundred thousand pages that we have in the library. The earliest poster that we have, the earliest printed page, is printed in Mantua, ת"א, sixteen forty-one, sixteen fifty-one. It's the rules of and regulations of tax paying by individuals to the Jewish community in the year of sixteen fifty-one in Mantua. One of the last posters that we scanned and posted on our site, the site of the library, is a appeal of the school organization Beit Rivkah in the year of nineteen six-- fifty-five, תש"ו. We have scanned over a thousand posters of so many kinds of publications. When someone

04:06 wants to look up all the posters that we have, that we have scanned and posted on our site, he would have to go to chabadlibrary.org/catalog. Our cat-- our catalog is divided into about one hundred and sixty sections. The posters are in the sections of קא"א, קא"ב, and קא"ג, one fifty-one, fifty-two, and fifty-three, according to the sizes of the posters. When someone wants to look up the posters that we have posted on our site, he would have to select in the catalog the sections of one fifty-one, one fifty-two, one fifty-three. He would get a list of the posters. The posters are not like regular seforim. Regular seforim have a title and author. The posters not only-- not always have a title page, title, and not always they have a author name. So in the lines that you would see, you would see only a few words of description and the place and time of printing. So when someone gets the list, he would see which one, which he's interested in, and that would be a link to the catalog card description, specific description of that publication. And then in the bottom of it, he would see a link to the scan of that page or pages.