[ha-Safran] 51st AJL Annual Conference - starting next week, Sunday June 19th, 2016

2016-06-09 Thread Rose Shoshanah Seidman
Dear colleagues: The program is all complete. The program book is at the printer. I just finished printing the special event programs (Opening dinner, Awards Luncheon and Awards Banquet) We have given the caterers the count of attendees and guests. They are preparing 10% more, so if you want

[ha-Safran] Online book "Expect More"

2016-06-09 Thread Heidi Rabinowitz
Wow. You guys, I just read an entire online book (pdf format) called Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries for Today's Complex World by David Lankes, and I kind of wish we'd picked this title for our AJL Reads discussion instead of BiblioTech. It has similar aims of creating a roadmap for the

Re: [ha-Safran] Judaica Librarianship 19 is out!

2016-06-09 Thread Jacqueline Benefraim
Hi Racheli, Now that I finally have a break between preparing for Conference, and the conference itself, I took the time to open up Judaica Librarianship and enjoy these great articles. Did you ever send a copy of the article The Younes And Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa: Israel's

[ha-Safran] Full 2016 AJL Conference program book is now online

2016-06-09 Thread Heidi Rabinowitz
The entire 2016 AJL conference program book is now online. Go to http://jewishlibraries.org/blog.php?id=344 to see a virtual program book with turning pages, or find it as a PDF on the Upcoming Conference page at http://jewishlibraries.org/Upcoming_Conference. Hope you find it helpful to be

[ha-Safran] Questions about Bibliotech

2016-06-09 Thread Heidi Rabinowitz
As you all know, we will be discussing the book Bibliotech: why libraries matter more than ever in the age of Google during the AJL conference in Charleston (Monday at 2pm). Whether you will be there or not, we'd love to include your questions in the discussion. Please email me your comments

[ha-Safran] Are you going to ALA?

2016-06-09 Thread Heidi Rabinowitz
I will be at the American Library Association conference in Orlando this year and I'm wondering who I might run into there. Are you going? Let me know so I can keep an eye out for you! Email me at heidi@cbiboca. org. Heidi Rabinowitz __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of