Greetings all: I was a first-time ALA Conference attendee this year. The Jewish interest group via EMIERT had two offerings, one of which I was able to attend (quite good!) I was surprised at the low attendance and the fact that no one had organized any sort of Shabbat get-together. I did find a service to attend Friday night. The next day a young woman who teaches at a Yeshiva School (!) came to the ALISE table where I was volunteering. She is Jewish and had never heard of AJL and was also surprised that there was nothing organized for Friday. There were 19,000 attendees at ALA - surely some of them besides the folks at the program I attended (around 20 I believe) would have been interested in some form of get-together? I know we are now an affiliate - I hope that there will be something more for New Orleans...????
I know that it takes a lot of work to make these things happen - can someone tell me any of the history of AJL's connection or the experience of other Jewish librarians or just plain old Jewish students at ALA??? Thanks, Nancy --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
