Audio files of the presentations from the regional workshop "Rare Books and Archival Collections in the Digital Age," held at The Jewish Theological Seminary on March 26, 2012, are now available. The workshop was co-sponsored by the following AJL chapters - New York Metropolitan Area (AJL-NYMA), Long Island (LIAJL), New England (NEAJL), and Washington, DC Capital Area (AJL-CAC).
To access the audio files, go to www.ajlnyma.org<http://www.ajlnyma.org>, click on "Past Events" on the Events Calendar and scroll down to "Rare Books/Archives Workshop, 2011-2012." The audio files are available in two parts. The program included the following presentations: Wonders of the World: The Taj Mahal and Rare Books (Dr. Peggy K. Pearlstein, Head, Hebraic Section, Library of Congress); Meditations on Digitization: An Archival Perspective (Shulamith Z. Berger, Curator of Special Collections, Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University); Seeing is Believing: Graphics Collections Online (Sharon Liberman Mintz, Curator of Jewish Art, The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary); Special Collecting in the University Research Library: The View from Stanford (Zachary M. Baker, Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development-Humanities and Social Sciences; Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections); and Parchment, Paper and Pixels: Collectors' Attitudes to Digitization of Rare Books and Manuscripts (David Wachtel, Senior Consultant for Judaica, Books & Manuscripts Department, Sotheby's, New York; Senior Consultant, Special Collections, The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary)
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