March 10, 2006
We are pleased to present a preliminary schedule for our upcoming
convention. There are still some additional speakers under consideration.
Please let us know if you are interested in chairing a particular session.
Please also note that many interest groups and committees have not
yet contacted us about scheduling meetings. Please do this at your
earliest possible convenience.
Jim Rosenbloom
Chair Program Committee
Sara Ravid, Co-Chair
To contact us:
Jim Rosenbloom
781-736-4688
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Association of Jewish Libraries 41st Convention, Cambridge, MA
Tentative Program, March 2006
Sunday, June 19th
9-10
AJL Board Meeting
10-11
11-12
12-1
AJL Council
AVI CHAI Welcome Lunch -- empress room
1-2
Freshman Seminar - Sherry Wasserman:
Course on starting and running of a library; cataloging & classification.
2-3
RLIN/RLG Karen Smith-Yoshimura
3-4
Workshop by Sagebrush Corp. on Infocentre
4-5
CARLJS
Catalogers' interest group
5-6
6:30 Dinner
Keynote Speaker: Grace Paley
8:30-
Interest Groups and Committees:
1.. Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee
2.. Sydney Taylor Manuscript Committee
3.. Chapter Presidents
4.. Accreditation Committee
Monday, June 19th 2006
Session I
MI-1. CEU 1: Linda Silver: Jewish Children's Literature
MI-2. Jewish Cookbooks, Jewish Libraries: culture and cuisine
Barbarah Haber
It's Not Just about Recipes: Jewish Cookbooks as Documents of Social History
Abigail Yasgur
A Place at the Table: Cookbooks in the Jewish Library
Lise Stern
focusing on trends in Jewish cookbooks.
MI-3. Israeli Collection Development
Zachary Baker
The "comprehensive" Israeli approval plan, and beyond
Rivka Shveiky
From print to online: legal deposit in Israel
MI-4. Hebrew Literature and Electronic Judaica Resources for the HS Librarian
In development
MI-5. Helping to Build Library Collections through Donations
Rabbi Howard Gorin
Nigeria
Gali Cooks
The PJ Library
Monday, June 19th 2006
Session II
MII-1. CEU 2: Linda Silver: Jewish Children's Literature
MII-2. Representing and Serving Our Diverse Jewish Population
Rosie Rosenzweig
How to answer questions about Jews attracted to non-Jewish spirituality
Yossi Abramowitz
to be announced
Andrea Jacobs
Queering the library: the importance of including GLBT resources in
Jewish libraries
MII-3. Digitization I
Elhanan Adler
Coordination of activities in Judaica digitization
Naomi Steinberger
Digitization at JTS
MII-4. The Rosalie Katchen Memorial Session:
Main Speaker: Dr. Barbara Tillett (Chief, Cataloging Policy and
Support Office - LC)
Monday, June 19th 2006
Session III
MIII-1. Fiction/nonfiction written for girls (tween and teen):
Robin Levinson
Gali Girls
Penina Adelman
The JGirl's Guide
Leah (Emily) Larson
Yaldah
MIII-2. New England Jews
Ellen Smith
Topic on Boston Jewry
Joy Kingsolver
Fannie Goldstein
Sarah Dunlap
Boston local oral history -- the Jewish Community of Cape Ann: an
Oral History
MIII-3. Israeli Authors and Literature
Yossi Galron
On his project The Online Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature
Rachel Leket-Mor
Special collections: Israeli popular literature.
MIII-4. Rabbinics
Eli Wise
Rabbinics in Translation
Zalman Alpert
Judaica Book Shops in NY
Jeffrey Spitzer
Rabbinics publishing in Israel
MIII-5. Using secular literature to address Jewish themes and values
(day school) gr. k-4
Linda Grekin
Monday, June 19th 2006
Session 4
MIV-1. MARC Cataloging for the SSC Librarian
Poshi Mickelson
MIV-2. Research in the Archives
Shulamith Berger
The Rise and Fall of Libby's Hotel
Bonnie Harris
From Zbaszyn to Manila --The archival collection of Cantor Joseph
Cysur's Odyssey from Holocaust to haven in the Philippines
MIV-3. Jewish Women in Print
Michlean Amir
Israeli women authors, focusing on those available in English translation
Susan Weidman Schneider
Lilith: 30 years of covering and uncovering Jewish women's issues.
MIV-4. Writing Jewish Children's Literature
Norm Finkelstein and Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Two authors, one vision: fact and fiction in children's books
Lois Ruby
Shanghai Shadows: The Story of Jewish Refugees in China
Jeffrey Shandler
Yankev Glatsheyn's Emil and Karl
MIV-5. Temple Israel, Boston
Jayne Guberman
Oral histories of American Jewish women - beyond the library shelf
Meagan Dwyer
To be announced
Monday, June 19th 2006
5:15 - 6:15
Feinstein Lecture:
Zachary Baker
"Getting in on the Ground Floor: Observations of a 'Postvernacular'
Yiddish Librarian"
Monday, June 19th 2006
6:30-
AVI CHAI Bookshelf Librarian Dinner and Program
Tuesday, June 20st
Session 1
TI-1. Sydney Taylor Committee
Jewish Children's Literature -- What's Hot, What's Not -- Part 1
Chair: Heidi Estrin
TI-2. CEU 1: Introduction to Archives
Joy Kingsolver
TI-3. Israeli Culture
Naomi Morse
Yossi Abulaifa, children's book artist
Sharon Rivo
To be announced
Bernie Horn
The Writer as Citizen: The Case of A. B. Yehoshua
TI-4. LC Cataloging update
TI-5. Library Collections
Randy Belinfante
Henry Besso Library and archives (Sephardica)
Steven Bernstein
Cataloging the "New York Geniza" (JTS) Goldsmith
Tuesday, June 20st
Session II
TII-1. Sydney Taylor Committee
Jewish Children's Literature -- What's Hot, What's Not -- Part 2
Chair: Heidi Estrin
TII-2. Collection Development Methods
Elizabeth Vernon
Collection development and management of the Jewish organizational press
Yelena Luckert/Jasmin Nof
Collecting and Cataloging Gifts
TII-3. CEU 2: Introduction to Archives
Joy Kingsolver
TII-4. Preserving Jewish Recordings
Maxine Schackman & Nathan Tinanoff
Preserving an Endangered Musical Culture: The Birth of the Judaica
Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University
Louis Glinert & Alex Hartov
The Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive
Tuesday, June 20st
Session III
TIII-1. Current Issues in Cataloging
Yossi Galron
On cataloging using OCLC
Jasmin Nof
On Cataloging using OCLC
Lenore Bell
"Hai-lights" of Eighteen years of Hebrew Cataloging in RLIN
TIII-2. CEU 3: Introduction to Archives
Joy Kingsolver
TIII-3. The Universality of Jewish Childrens' Books - 4 Children's
Authors from Western Massachusetts
Chair: Jane Trigere
Barbara Goldin
Leslea Newman
Mordecai Gerstein
Richard Michelson
TIII-4. Researching the History and Future of Jewish Women
Deborah Stern
The Beckerman Kolot Collection on Gender and Judaism at the
Recontructionist Rabbinical College Library
Judith Pinnolis
Discovering Jewish women musicians -- the role of library, archival
and online resources
Judith Rosenbaum
Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution -- archiving history online
Tuesday, June 20st
Session IV
TIV-1. Oral history (Boston connection)
Bernice Kazis
How oral history benefits a community
Ina Freedman
Interviewing Holocaust Survivors
TIV-2. Adult Jewish Literacy
Marc Brettler
To be announced
David Starr
To be announced
TIV-3. Public Services -- Reaching One's Audience
Susan Dubin and Marlana Droz
Presentation, Presentation -- how to share information so others will
listen (on how to design a library presentation)
TIV-4. Digitization II: Judaica digitizing projects
Violet Gilboa
How to bring together critical masses of material by using technology
Leah Adler
Digitizing an illuminated manuscript - the Prague Tanakh of 1489
TIV-5. Writing Jewish Childrens' Books
Marissa Moss
Writing for Children: A Jewish Perspective
Laurie Jacobs
5:00 - 5:45 Interest Groups and Committees
Tuesday, June 20st
Banquet 6:30
Wednesday, June 21
9 - 10 SSC and R & S Divisional Meetings
10:15 to Noon General Membership Meeting
Noon AJL Council Meeting
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