Countdown until the 49th AJL Conference: 88 Days!!Expand your knowledge in an outstanding roundtable discussion on digital humanities with AJL's own outgoing RAS Secretary, Michelle Chesner, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Urban Sustainability Librarian, Marianne Buehler, at the 49th Annual AJL Conference, June 22-25 in Las Vegas!This roundtable discussion will also give a sneak peak into UNLV's grant document on the history of the Jews in Sin City. (You'll want to go "all in" on this one!)To see the full line-up, visit: http://www.jewishlibraries.org/main/Events.aspx Buehler, Marianne.Marianne A. Buehler is currently the Urban Sustainability Librarian and the Digital Scholarship@UNLV institutional repository administrator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received an MA in Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona and a BA in English, from the University of Maine. Her applied research and publications are focused on scholarly communication, such as open access journal publishing, self-publishing, and copyright. She also engages in scholarly communication intersections within information literacy and archival materials. A natural progression is her interest in digital humanities and aspects of data curation. Her monograph, Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success, was published in December 2013. Chesner, Michelle.Michelle Chesner is the Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia University, as well as the outgoing Secretary of the RAS division ofAJL. She has worked at the University of Pennsylvania and the Jewish Theological Seminary, as well as the rare Judaica auction house, Kestenbaum and Company. In addition, Chesner dabbles in various digital humanities projects ranging from the movement of Jewish books to Yiddish theatre, and from American Jewish newspapers to Yiddish linguistics. She is currently involved with a larger project to create a digital repository for such creations within the realm of Jewish Studies.
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