Mazal tov to all the recipients of the AJL awards. The fanny Goldstein Merit Award. The info below lists very few of Lisa’s contributions to the profession of Jewish librarianship. Lisa was instrumental in the success of the past few confernces. She introduced us to the Socio app and worked hard to secure the hotel and the meeting spaces in the museum. Lisa was the SSC president. The most evident example of promoting Jewish and non-Jewish children’s literature and literacy is her involvement in the children’s Literature conferences and her work with Suzi Dubin chairing the AJL Western Regional Children’s Literature Conferences in LA for close to five years. Lisa’s wonderful reviews of Children’s five years. Lisa’s wonderful reviews of Children’s Books for the LA Jewish Journal and her work as the editor of the children books reviews at the JBW (Jewish Book Council) quarterly magazine served many librarians in the selection of books for their libraries. Lisa is much more than her list of activities. In addition to her work locally and for AJL, Lisa has gone to Germany (and, if I am not wrong other cities in Europe) to speak on Children’s Holocaust Literature and children books. She would not have been selected as a judge for the Younger Readers Once Upon a World and the National Book Award if she did not prove herself as expert in the field. Lisa has given numerous workshops on many topics and in particularly in Holocaust picture books for children. Lisa took the AJL Bibliography Bank to a higher level by making it searchable. If I forgot something apologize! Mazal tov Lisa! Groner- Wikler award There is no need to introduce Heidi. Just like Lisa she deserves this award. Congratulations Heid!. Accreditation The accreditation is guidance to excellence. Special greetings to the recipients. Student Scholarships: I hope that the students will see this scholarship as an opening invitation to getting involved in AJL. Amalia Warshenbrot
From: AJL PR via Hasafran Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 4:44 PM To: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Subject: [ha-Safran] Conference 2022 Update: Member Awards and Scholarships Please join us in Philadelphia as we celebrate those receiving AJL member awards and scholarships! For more information about AJL Conference 2022: Together Again! and to register, visit https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jewishlibraries.org/2022-conference/__;!!KGKeukY!zZlbiPuZw3vpmrvcpsxsuiuADsfw4C8Ctw1TddSFfyDQHfUQ6iCM4elJVsQ8NvY0T5FA3RRhObgAfj85DUnK$ Please join us in Philadelphia as we celebrate those receiving AJL member awards and scholarships! For more information about AJL Conference 2022: Together Again! and to register, visit https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jewishlibraries.org/2022-conference/__;!!KGKeukY!zZlbiPuZw3vpmrvcpsxsuiuADsfw4C8Ctw1TddSFfyDQHfUQ6iCM4elJVsQ8NvY0T5FA3RRhObgAfj85DUnK$ . Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Lisa Silverman will receive the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award—named for the librarian, social activist, and founder of National Jewish Book Month—bestowed in recognition of loyal and ongoing contributions to the Association and to the profession of Jewish librarianship. The award will be presented during lunch (12:30 pm) on Tuesday, June 28. Lisa Silverman began her career as a day school librarian at the Sinai Akiba Academy in Los Angeles and Adat Ari El Day School in Valley Village, California. She spent fifteen years as the library director at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, providing library services and educational programming for the day school, religious school, and synagogue community including teaching adult education classes, facilitating book groups, and hosting author events, family programs, and film discussions. In 2015, Lisa became the library director of the Burton Sperber Jewish Community Library at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles where she designed the new space, built the collection, and provided extensive programming. She also developed and launched a new online digital Jewish Community Library Consortium of California in partnership with the Jewish Community Library of San Francisco. Kar-Ben Publishing Scholarship, in honor of Kar-Ben Founders Judye Groner and Madeline Wikler Congratulations to Heidi Rabinowitz on being awarded the Kar-Ben Publishing Scholarship, a conference attendance scholarship that recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to Jewish children's literacy. Heidi will be recognized at the SSCPL Division meeting on Tuesday, June 28 (10:45 am). Heidi Rabinowitz is the library director at Feldman Children's Library of Congregation B’nai Israel in Boca Raton, Florida, past president of the Association of Jewish Libraries, and currently serves as AJL's member relations chair. She engages in numerous projects that promote Jewish children's literature, hosting "The Book of Life: A Podcast About Jewish Kidlit (Mostly)" at bookoflifepodcast.com, founding the popular Jewish Kidlit Mavens group on Facebook, and helping to run The Sydney Taylor Shmooze, a mock award blog at sydneytaylorshmooze.com. Heidi is a past chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee and has served on the book selection committee for PJ Library. Accreditation Awards Join us at the SSCPL Division meeting (Tuesday, June 28, 10:45 am) as we recognize our colleagues whose libraries have received accreditation during the past year. Basic Accreditation: Congregation Keneseth Israel Library, Sean Boyle, Librarian The Frisch School Library, David Sclar, PhD, Librarian and Director of Student Research & Special Collections Temple Sinai DC Library, Ruth Polk, Librarian Advanced Accreditation Renewal: Hendel Family Library of the Westchester Jewish Center, Arlene Ratzabi, Librarian Student Scholarships AJL is pleased to have awarded two academic scholarships with conference subvention to Anna Kovler and Katie Webber. These scholarships are awarded to students with a history of participating in Judaic studies or libraries who are accepted into or attending an accredited graduate school of library and information science. Anna Kovler is an emerging archivist and librarian currently working with the Judaica collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto. Anna previously worked as a writer for a contemporary art gallery and published art criticism in international magazines. She holds a master of fine arts and is close to graduating from the Master of Information program at the University of Toronto. Having immigrated to Israel at the age of five, Anna spent part of her childhood near Be’er Sheva; she attended Hebrew day schools after immigrating to Canada. She is interested in the intersection of art and Jewish studies as well as the increasing role of women in religious leadership. Katie Webber is a master's student in library and information science with a concentration in archives and records management at Simmons University. She graduated from Rice University and double-majored in religion and women, gender, and sexuality studies, with a minor in Jewish studies. She has worked as a project archivist at the Houston Jewish History Archive and as a digital humanities and indexing fellow at the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. This summer she is participating in the YIVO Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish.
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