I "attended" ALA this year. Part of the time I had to work out a schedule
around AJL. For the most part, I liked the presentations. I found them no less
no more inspiring then last year. I do miss the in-person sessions, but was
grateful for this opportunity. Unfortunately I missed Heidi's session, as I was
on my to LC.
Haim
On Monday, June 29, 2020, 7:05:07 AM EDT, Elliot H. Gertel via Hasafran
<[email protected]> wrote:
I actually found ALA Virtual a mostly pretty good conference. True, I did
find some of the speakers uninspiring, but I think that’s the case with any
such event.
I had no trouble getting into the live or on-demand sessions. If a session was
live, it usually became available in on-demand format after it was over. I did
find a few of those programs only became available many hours or a day
afterward, but was able to check back to view again or catch parts that I
missed of the sessions that interested me. There were a number of
engaging—and sometimes controversial—programs that I enjoyed. Of course,
Heidi’s session, was absolutely a highlight.Wednesday, June 24Although, like
other keynote speakers, I found the closing session featuring Natalie Portman,
way too brief, I still enjoyed certain aspects of it including her discussion
of some of the changes in the depictions of the critters in the stories in her
debut children’s picture book, Natalie Portman’s Fables. And she was
interviewed by Betsy Bird, Collection Development Manager, Evanston Public
Library, who will be speaking at AJL Digital on Thursday on “Reviewing and
Evaluating Picture Books.”
In any case, I, too, would like to hear what others who took part in any part
of the online ALA conference thought.
See you all tomorrow (by the time this gets “published,” it will be tomorrow
here in the Eastern Time Zone, and probably everywhere else, too).
Elliot
================================================Elliot H. Gertel עלע־הערש
גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטלAJL-ALA LiaisonMember, ALA EMIERT Jewish Information
Committee, 2020-22
Chair, 2020 AJL Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee
Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of JudaicaThe University of MichiganAnn
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 7:38 PM Daniel Stuhlman <[email protected]> wrote:
Her presentation was the best part of the ALA conference. I was very
disappointed with the speakers, their messages, and the format. I found it
very hard to figure out how to attend sessions. The "on demand" sessions were
not on demand. When I attended in person it was exciting. What did you think
of the conference?
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:56 PM Sukenic, Harvey via Hasafran
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Heidi did a great job arguing for the multi-cultural content of Jewish
literature. She also did a great job of highlighting the AJL, the AJL website
and its resources, other Jewish resources, as well as her own blog.
Harvey
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Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 7:50:39 PM
To: Emily Bergman; Heidi Rabinowitz
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Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Heidi Rabinowitz presents at ALA Annual 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 גרטלAJL-ALA LiaisonMember, ALA EMIERT Jewish Information
Committee, 2020-22
Chair, 2020 AJL Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee
Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of JudaicaThe University of MichiganAnn
Arbor, [email protected]
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:22 PM Emily Bergman via Hasafran
<[email protected]> 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
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