I totally agree with you, Emily, and really appreciate all the effort that you put into getting Heidi, and thus AJL, onto the ALA Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table session, “EMIERT Chair’s Program Promoting Multicultural Library Services in Virtual Spaces,” which took place this morning at ALA Virtual.
All three participants, Heidi; K.C. Boyd, Library Media Specialist at Jefferson Academy in the Washington, DC Public School system; and Andrea Jamison, Librarian and Lecturer at Valparaiso University (Indiana) and Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of EMIERT, articulated their jobs, patron base, collections, charges, and challenges really well. While representing “just” two ethnic communities (on the surface), Jewish and African-American, they demonstrated the diversity and multiculturalism of both and how meaningful their work and the resources that they highlighted are. What they do is beneficial to all of their users, internal and external. Andrea, while serving as the moderator, contributed much to the discussion, not only with her questions but contributions to the conversation. A really good session. And Heidi proved once again why she is not only a Jewish kidlit meyven, but so knowledgeable way beyond her “bailiwick!” Great job! *Yasher-koyekh* and *kol ha-kavod* on your fabulous presentation, Heidi, and Emily for making sure it happened! See you all next week! Elliot ================================================ Elliot H. Gertel *עלע־הערש גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטל* AJL-ALA Liaison Member, ALA EMIERT Jewish Information Committee, 2020-22 Chair, 2020 AJL Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of Judaica The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan eger...@umich.edu On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:22 PM Emily Bergman via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > I just watched Heidi present with K.C. Boyd at the EMIERT Chair's Program > Promoting Multicultural Library Services in Virtual Spaces at the ALA > digital conference. It was a great presentation, and the comments in the > Q&A space were very positive. EMIERT is planning to make the > presentation available on their website, so I will send the link so > everyone can see it. > > How did this happen? I pushed to be on the EMIERT Program Committee. The > Chair's Program was already set and was to be a very theoretical program > about ethnic materials. When everything changed, the in-person program > wouldn't work online, and the committee had to come up with a new program > quickly, I suggested Heidi to join a DC school librarian to talk about this > topic, and we are so lucky she agreed. > > I can't tell you how happy I am with how the program turned out. It > really brought out the diversity of materials to have speakers from such > different backgrounds. > > Thank you, Heidi, for stepping up and preparing for this program on short > notice that will reach a broad audience. You are a superstar. > > Emily > > Emily Bergman > SSCPL President > AJL > emilyanneberg...@gmail.com > __ > 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: > hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu > 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: galro...@osu.edu > 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 > Hasafran@lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran >
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