But wait! Also featured as a moderator on the Digital Humanities roundtable is the esteemed *Arthur Kiron*!
*Arthur Kiron* is the Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History in Penn's History Department. In his role as Curator, he oversees public programs of education and outreach, such as exhibits, concerts, workshops, as well as national and international partnerships to digitize significant collections of Judaica. Arthur is the Director of the Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project, a international national initiative based at Penn, which seeks to locate, scan, catalog, and provide dynamic on-line, integrated access to early American Jewish historical documents, including the personal papers and publications of Isaac Leeser. He also directs the "Holy Land" digitization" project, an international partnership to create a digital repository of texts, images, maps, and other realia related to the pre-State Land of Israel. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Jewish Libraries Public Relations < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > __ > 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: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > >
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