Dear RAS Division members, In preparation for our meeting at the AJL conference, and in the absence of an RAS Division listserv, I am sending the RAS Division Meeting Minutes from last year to Ha-Safran.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon. Kind regards, Rebecca RAS President RAS Meeting Minutes 6.20.16 Compiled by RAS Secretary Michelle Chesner 1. Called to order at 4:35 2. Meeting minutes from last year are not available 3. RAS Past President's report (Sharon Benamou) * Looked at the affiliation document from strategic planning, felt that it didn't suit the needs of RAS. Still in conversation i. Task force: Sharon, Rebecca, Yelena - to approach AJS about affiliations. * Talking to ALA Editions about how to work on webinars (Haim G.) 1. Incoming President's report (Rebecca Jefferson) * Incoming VP: Rachel Simon * Incoming secretary: Michelle Chesner * RAS relevant notes from Board meeting i. Yaffa called to figure out affiliation by next year - we're working on it! ii. Fred Isaac - Development - asking for proposals to give to Elevate (consultant form). Daniel added that there needs to be more RAS input on that. Michelle said that conversations had begun, but there can still be more. 1. Committee Reports: * Cataloging: i. Romanization issues with loan words - still under discussion ii. Discussed Racheli's article in JL about the future of cataloging (in a post-MARC age) iii. Revision of PCC guidelines for non-Roman characters iv. Cataloging wiki is updated v. Heidi is stepping down, a new chair will be appointed. * Judaica Librarianship i. Published a new edition - mazal tov to all who worked on it. Not too many downloads made yet ii. Almost 17K downloads since July 2013, since it became open iii. Call for papers not released yet iv. Edith noted how nice it is that you are notified when your articles are read. v. Michelle said there will be a new section reviewing digital projects; please send projects to be reviewed or offers to review. These will be long-form reviews. * Rebecca asked about reviewing exhibitions; Racheli responded that there will be another forum for reviewing exhibits, both physical and digital * RAS Bibliography and Reference Awards (Rebecca) i. Just a Reference Award this year, no bibliography: * Edinburgh Companion to Jewish Fiction - one of the contributors will be here to accept the award on behalf of the editors, who couldn't make it. * Old Business * New Business: i. Rachel Simon: Two openings on the awards committee - if anyone is interested, email Rachel (rsi...@princeton.edu<mailto:rsi...@princeton.edu>). Current members can run for two terms (so let Rachel know if you want to continue). ii. Can Bibliography awards be given to digital projects? Yes, they can and have been iii. What about expanding the awards to Academic Jewish Publication of the year? This might be a good option for Elevate. * Zachary mentioned that it's a huge field and AJS is really doing it. * Are there areas that are not covered by AJS? * Aaron T. proposed poetry and fiction * How can the RAS division better serve its members? i. Sheryl: Digital Humanities resources. Michelle said that she's working on one for Jewish Studies, will add it to the site somehow. Led to a discussion of Libguides and sharing them - send them to Nancy Poole, new Publications Chair ii. Programming recommendations for next year * Dina: Working with Wikipedia to emphasize collections. NYC Wikimedia Chapter is very active. CJH was involved in this. A workshop could be very beneficial to librarians * Daniel: Format rather than content. Check survey results to see what people wanted * Poster sessions for digital projects - maybe digital poster sessions; but why not just old fashioned poster. * Bibliographic instruction - has that ever been done? * Racheli noted that JL also seeks articles about instruction * Haim Gottschalk offered to be a moderator * Elliott reminded all going on to ALA that the 10th joint ALA-AJL program "Chronicle of a people: celebrating over 200 years of Florida Jewish history" (more info in the program book on p. 20) i. Edith gave special thanks to Elliott for his hard work doing this every year. ii. Yaffa - we are making a conscious effort to make ourselves more visible in ALA. Be in touch with Elliott if you plan to go; you can get free registration (and there's swag to bring). iii. Jasmin recommended possibly raffling off a registration for conference at the ALA table - ACTION ITEM * Jim thanked Sharon for her service. * Michelle moved to close, Racheli seconded, meeting ended at 5:19 In attendance: Yaffa Weisman: AJL-JIR Robert Christmann: KKBE/Assistant Librarian at Yaschik Library Vanessa Freedman: University College London Anna Levia: Stanford University Libraries Arielle I. Sokol: University of Michigan Elliot H. Gertel: University of Michigan Galina Teverovsky: Library of Congress Elizabeth Vernon: Harvard Zachary Baker: Stanford University Avrum Shuchatowitz: Yeshiva University Haim Gottschalk: Library of Congress Elhanan Adler: National Library of Israel Sharon Horowitz: Library of Congress Gabriel Mordoch: Ohio State Yelena Luckert: Maryland Daniel Scheide: Florida Atlantic Yossi Galron: Ohio State Michelle Chesner: Columbia Jackie Benefraim: AJU Ya'akov Aronson: Bar Ilan Aaron Taub: Library of Congress Nancy Sack: University of Hawaii Sheryl Stahl: Hebrew Union College Dina Herbert: NARA Edith Lubetski: Stern College Shoshanah Seidman: Northwestern Rachel Simon: Princeton David Hirsch: UCLA Rita Saccal: Fundacion Judaica Stanley Nachamy Elinor Grumet: Stern College Shuli Berger: Yeshiva University Leah Adler: Yeshiva University Jasmin Shidohara: University of Pennsylvania Alan LaPayover: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Amalia Levia: Barbados, Nidhe Israel Gail Shirazi: Library of Congress Rachel Ariel: Duke Marlene Schiffman: Yeshiva University Sharon Benamou: UCLA Rebecca Jefferson: University of Florida
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