48th Annual Conference Program: AJL by Heidi Rabinowitz

AJL Speed Dating & Committee Luncheon Tuesday, June 18

12:45-1:10 p.m.

Ballroom Foyer

Choose your lunch table according to your interests! You’ll have a chance to “speed date” 14 different AJL-activity representatives before choosing your table. Move fast and choose wisely because you’ll have only 2-3 minutes with each person and you won’t make it to all 14! You’ll have more time to chat during lunch. Which AJL program or activity would you like to learn more about? Want to become more actively involved? What are all these committees anyway? The areas being represented are: Accreditation: Amalia Warshenbrot A program of the SSC (Synagogue, School and Center Division) to facilitate and certify professional standards for Jewish libraries. AJL News and AJL Reviews: Daniel Scheide or Rebecca Jefferson Quarterly membership publications. Chapter Relations: Etta Gold Oversees regional chapters throughout the world. Conferences: Susan Dubin Next year in Las Vegas! Fundraising and Development: Jim Rosenbloom Money makes the world go ‘round… Judaica Librarianship: Rachel Leket-Mor Learn about the editorial board of our annual journal. Academic and Continuing Education: Heidi Estrin Judaica librarianship courses, webinars and more. Mentoring: Amanda Siegel Want a mentor? Be a mentor? Publicity & Promotion: Danielle Winter Help spread the word about AJL! Sydney Taylor Awards Committee: Aimee Lurie Love to write reviews? Sydney Taylor Manuscripts Committee: Aileen Grossberg Evaluate manuscripts for children’s books. Editing AJL Resources: Joyce Levine Help us revise our print monographs and online resources. Strategic Planning: Yaffa Weisman What? We have to think about the future?! ALA Liaison: Elliot Gertel We’re an affiliate of American Library Association!

Letters………………………………………………………………………………...2 Conference Committee…………………………………………………………....13 Standing Ovations………………………………………………………………....15 AJL Information…………………………………………………………………….16 AJL Award Winners………………………………………………………………..19 Restaurants…………………………………………………………………………22 Plenary Speakers…………………………………………………………………..25 Schedule Grid……………………………………………………………………....27 Detailed Program…………………………………………………………………..33 Speaker Biographies………………………………………………………………48 Exhibitors…………………………………………………………………………...56 Advertisements…………………………………………………………………….59

Houston, Texas welcomes the Association of Jewish Libraries for their 48th Annual Conference! We hope you will all enjoy the warm welcome customary for visitors to the South, plus discover the many surprising offerings the city of Houston has to offer. Even though the image of Texas may be cowboys and ranches, this city is known for a multitude of cultural offerings, from museums, to opera, theater and cuisine, with beaches, NASA Space Center Houston and a diverse population. The programming for this year’s conference has something for everyone, from addressing the ongoing challenges of e-books and library technology tools, to insights into Jewish populations around the world, genealogy and archival sessions, cataloging updates, and many more instructive sessions to enhance your library management. Plus there will be the usual dose of local color. The opening plenary will present Rabbi Jimmy Kessler, noted Texas historian and genial raconteur and Dr. Bryan Stone, author of “The Chosen Folks”, a history of Texas Jews. The closing plenary features Rabbi Judith Abrams, respected Talmudic scholar, discussing “The Other Talmud, the Yerushalmi”. The annual Sydney Taylor Awards will be presented to authors who will be in attendance, and who will also share their experiences with us. Our welcome to Houston will start on Sunday night, with a genuine kosher barbeque dinner, accompanied by music and line-dance instruction. On Monday our AJL attendees will have an opportunity to view a preview of a documentary, this time featuring a Houston icon. I would like to thank my local committee and the many volunteers who have worked so diligently preparing for this event, and especially to Lisa Klein, of the Bureau of Jewish Education at the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, who has been with me from the very beginning. I am eternally grateful for the support and leadership of Toby Harris, National Conference Chair. We hope you learn a lot and laugh a lot, and enjoy your visit to Houston. Judy Weidman Houston Conference Chair

In Memoriam

Shari Epstein 1963 - 2012 The Houston AJL planning committee sadly acknowledges the death of Shari Epstein, active volunteer in the early planning stages of the 2013 conference. Shari came forward at the first announcement of help needed for the meeting. She had volunteered for several jobs, and just a week before her death in a tragic auto-pedestrian accident, had researched a foundation for potential conference support. We extend our deepest sympathies to her husband Joe and two daughters, Anna and Jessica.

AJL President Heidi Estrin

Finance Debbie Stern

AJL Conference Chair Toby Harris

Fundraising Judy Weidman Toby Harris Lisa Klein

Houston Conference Chair Judy Weidman Conference Advisor Jim Rosenbloom Local Conference Correspondence Susan Whitman, Lisa Klein Local Conference Committee Lisa Klein, Kerry Hoffman, Ariel Rozen, Barbara Garber, Jean Lerner, Fiona Schicker, Jennifer Jaeger, Jennifer-Joy Bronk, Marilyn Hassid, Monica Woolf, Rhoda Goldberg, Shari Epstein, Sue Resnick, Vicki Samuels, Susan Schlein, Evelyn Brass, Lois Falk, Judy Bell, Monica Rose, Sue Kaufman, Suzanne Rickles, Heather Nodler

Hospitality Suite Lisa Klein Marlene Reynolds Lynn Waghalter Linda Goodbrandson Minyan Coordinators Marga Hirsch Lisa Klein Amram Rister Program Book Elana Gensler Susan Whitman

Advertising, Exhibits, Raffles Jacqueline Ben Efraim

Programming Toby Harris Daniel Scheide Lisa Silverman Judy Weidman

Audio-Visual Chaim Butterfield Heidi Estrin Toby Harris

Publicity Heidi Estrin Judy Weidman Danielle Winter

Awards Luncheon Susan Dubin

Registration Marsha Lustigman Patricia Fenton

Banquet and Reception Debbie Feder Aimee Lurie Catering Susan Rosner

Scholarships and Stipends Lenore Bell Rachel Glasser Shabbat Home Hospitality Lisa Klein

Tours Judy Weidman Susan Schlein Volunteer Coordination Judy Weidman Lisa Klein Susan Ganc Rosa Herst Welcome Bags Kerry Hoffman Monica Woolf

AJL BOARD 2012-2014 President: Past President: VP/President Elect: VP Membership: VP Publications: Treasurer: Recording Secretary: Corresponding Secretary: RAS President: RAS Vice President: RAS Secretary: SSC President: SSC Vice President: SSC Secretary:

Heidi Rabinowitz Estrin Jim Rosenbloom Yaffa Weisman Sheryl Stahl Joyce Levine Deborah Stern Shoshanah Seidman Elana Gensler Daniel Scheide Sharon Benamou Michelle Chesner Lisa Silverman Amalia Warshenbrot Cherille Berman

We are grateful to the following individuals and institutions for their generous support of AJL’s 48th Annual Conference Donors and Sponsors Ameriprise Financial- Conference bag donor and Welcome dinner sponsor EBSCO- Banquet Reception sponsor The Lucius N. Littauer Foundaton Jo Marshall Eric Chaim Kline Goldstaub Special Needs Fund of the Houston Jewish Community Foundation Arne’s - Arnold and Sylvia Grossman PJ Library, Harold Grinspoon Foundation Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Benjy and Erica Levit Whole Foods Koren Kroger E.R.J.C.C. Houston Celeste Stein Designs Lil Lavine Martha Barvin Russell Weidman Jewish Family Service Houston Metro The Medallion at Seven Acres Beth Wolff Realty Tom Horan One Egg is a Fortune Houston: It’s Worth It David Levy Susan Dubin Elinor Grumet Elliot Gertel Aileen Grossberg Dan Wyman – caps Fiona Schicker Hilton Houston Post Oak

We want to express our gratitude to advertisers and exhibitors for their presence and support!

Mission The Association of Jewish Libraries promotes Jewish literacy through enhancement of libraries and library resources and through leadership for the profession and practitioners of Judaica librarianship. The Association fosters access to information, learning, teaching and research relating to Jews, Judaism, the Jewish experience, and Israel. Goals 1. Maintain high professional standards for Judaica librarians and recruit qualified individuals into the profession. 2. Facilitate communication and exchange of information on a global scale. 3. Encourage quality publication in the field in all formats and media, print, digital, etc.; stimulate publication of high quality children's literature. 4. Facilitate and encourage establishment of Judaica library collections. 5. Enhance information access for all through application of advanced technologies. 6. Publicize the organization and its activities in all relevant venues a. Stimulate awareness of Judaica library services among the public at large b. Promote recognition of Judaica librarianship within the wider library profession c. Encourage recognition of Judaica library services by other organizations and related professions. 7. Ensure continuity of the Association through sound management, financial security, effective governance and a dedicated and active membership. Divisions The Association of Jewish Libraries was created in 1965 as a result of the merger of two organizations. The Jewish Librarians Association, founded in 1947, concerned itself with collections of Judaica in academic, archival or research institutions. The Jewish Library Association, founded in 1962, concerned itself with collections in synagogue, school, and community center libraries, as well as other smaller libraries and media centers. Today, AJL continues to serve the needs and specialized interests of these groups through its two divisions: The Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections Division (RAS) The Synagogue, School, and Center Division (SSC)

Accreditation Committee The charge of the Accreditation Committee is to: 1) design accreditation instruments for Synagogue, School and Center Division libraries; 2) review completed accreditation forms and award Basic and Advanced Status to those libraries who qualify; 3) advise and mentor libraries who request help reaching accreditation status; and 4) publicize the accreditation process in appropriate venues and publications. Chapter Relations Committee The Chapter Relations Committee consults with all chapters and is available to answer questions and advise chapters as well as to assist members in setting up programs. Local Conference Committee The Local Conference Committee plans and coordinates all aspects of the annual conference, including: working with the national chair to locate a hotel, arranging for meals and entertainment, planning the programming, soliciting vendors for the book fair, recruiting volunteers, and coordinating with national committees. National Conference Committee The National Conference Committee serves to advise, support, and assist the local conference chairs in planning and presenting the annual AJL National Conference. The committee also encourages and fosters an interest in presenting Regional Conferences to address the professional needs of members who cannot attend National Conference and to attract librarians who may not be familiar with AJL. Conference Stipend Committee The Conference Stipend Committee reviews all applications requesting funds to attend the annual conference. The committee makes every effort to accommodate all in need of a stipend. International Liaison The charge of the International Liaison is to organize a panel or panels at international conferences that have a library or Jewish studies component. Mentoring Committee The AJL Mentoring Program endeavors to assist fledgling Jewish librarians find the answers they need through a personal relationship with an experienced librarian best suited to help them. Librarianship and Education Committee The Librarianship and Education Committee develops and promotes specialized courses (online and/or in person) for individuals interested in Judaica librarianship, both those in library school and those seeking continuing education. Public Relations Committee The Public Relations Committee's charge is writing press releases and assisting committee chairs in writing their own press releases.

RAS Cataloging Committee The RAS Cataloging Committee acts as a liaison with the Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress on issues affecting Judaica cataloging including subject problems raised by RAS Division members, and suggests possible solutions; and educates members as to new policies or procedures affecting Judaica cataloging in the form of workshops at AJL conventions and/or a cataloging column in one of the AJL publications. Reference and Bibliography Award Committee The Committee is charged with annually selecting the winners of the Reference and Bibliography Awards. Committee members review and evaluate books submitted by publishers for the awards. Scholarship Committee The Scholarship Committee is responsible for sending announcements of the AJL scholarship competition to all accredited American and Canadian library schools; selecting the winner(s); publicizing the fund and announcing donations in the newsletter; sending notes of acknowledgement to those in whose honor, or family of those in whose memory, donations are made. Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee The Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee is charged with annually selecting the winners of the Sydney Taylor Book Award and with implementing the process by which the winners are selected, publicized, and presented. Committee members review and evaluate books submitted by publishers for the award. Sydney Taylor Manuscript Competition Committee The Sydney Taylor Manuscript Competition Committee is charged with annually selecting the winners of the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award and with implementing the process by which the winners are selected, publicized, and presented. Committee members review and evaluate manuscripts submitted by authors for the award.

THE 2013 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARDS Sponsored by Jo Taylor Marshall The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers Hannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Way by Linda Glaser with illustrations by Adam Gustavson The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg by Louise Borden The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Teen Readers Intentions by Deborah Heiligman Sydney Taylor Honor Books for Younger Readers Zayde Comes to Live by Sheri Sinykin with illustrations by Kristina Swarner The Elijah Door: A Passover Tale by Linda Leopold Strauss with illustrations by Alexi Natchev Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Older Reader The Wooden Sword: A Jewish Folktale from Afghanistan by Ann Redisch Stampler with illustrations by Carol Liddiment Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Teen Readers Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport

2013 SYDNEY TAYLOR MANUSCRIPT AWARD Freestyle by Karen Propp

2012 JUDAICA BIBLIOGRAPHY AWARD sponsored by Eric Chaim Kline

Otsar kitve-ha-yad ha-Talmudiyim by Yaakov Sussman

FANNY GOLDSTEIN AWARD Amalia Washenbrot

LIFE MEMBERSHIP AWARD Joan Biella

AJL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Joanna Chen Alissa Felberman

LIBRARY ACCREDITATION Basic Accreditation Buns Family Library, Congregation B'nai Israel, St. Petersburg, Florida Ruth Lebovitz, Librarian Leah & Jacob Modansky Library, East Meadow Jewish Center, East Meadow, New York Ellen Cohn, Librarian Nathan & Doris Liebman Memorial Library, Hebrew Academy of Nassau County Uniondale, New York Laura Schutzman, Librarian Rosen Library, Temple Emanu-El, Providence, Rhode Island Tovah Reis, Librarian Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center, Henderson, Nevada Myra Berkowitz, Education Specialist

Basic Accreditation - Renewal Dr. Saul and Emma Fleegler Library, Adat Shalom Synagogue, Cheswick, Pa. Margy Mitnick, Librarian Eugene B. Levine Memorial Library, Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles, California Ellen Cole, Librarian Irving Shakin Library, Congregation Beth Shalom, Teaneck, New Jersey Barbara Frank, Librarian Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg Memorial Library, Temple Emeth, Teaneck, New Jersey Teri Binder, Librarian

Advanced Accreditation Bendiner Library, Temple Beth-El, San Antonio, Texas Marlene Reynolds, Librarian

Advanced Accreditation - Renewal Arthur J. Lelyveld Center for Jewish Learning, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple Beachwood, Ohio Julie Moss, Librarian Congregation Beth Am Library, Los Altos Hills, California Diane Rauchwerger, Librarian Jay Allan Myers Library, Temple Israel, Tulsa, Oklahoma Susan Woitte, Librarian Rabbi Philip N. Kranz Learning Center, Temple Sinai, Sandy Springs, Georgia Adelle Salmenson, Librarian Temple Beth Am Library, Miami, Florida Etta Gold, Librarian Tycher Library, Center for Jewish Education, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas Dallas, Texas Nina Golboro, Librarian

Accreditation Committee Leah Moskovits, Chair Jolie Baron, Rachail Kurtz, Arlene Ratzabi, Jane Zande

Dining establishments with HKA supervision We have local volunteers offering to drive those who wish to have dinner at a kosher restaurant. In order to have sufficient drivers, please leave your name and restaurant choice at the Registration Desk by noon Monday.

Aroma Pizza Cafe 6285 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77081 (approx. 6 miles from hotel) Ph: 832-460-0194 Website: aromapizzacafe.com Hours: Sunday – Thursday, 9:00 a.m.– 10:00 p.m.; Friday, 9:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m. Saturday, open 1hr after Shabbat Dairy Cholov Yisrael restaurant serving breakfast, pizza, paninis, salads, soups, bourekas, shakshuka, fresh hummus, pareve Chinese and couscous on Friday. Madras Pavillion 3910 Kirby Drive, #130, Houston, TX 77098 (approx. 4.5 miles from hotel) Ph: 713-521-2617 Website: www.madraspavilion.us Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 a.m.- 10:00 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m., 5:30-10:00 p.m. Dairy Vegetarian Indian cuisine serving an all you can eat buffet lunch every day including Sundays, and an a la carte dinner. Serving South and North Indian cuisine including mild and spicy soups, Dosa, salads, fresh fruit and kosher wines. My Pita Bakery & Deli 9806 Hillcroft, Houston TX 77096 (approx. 8 miles from hotel) Ph: 713-283-9200 Website: www.mypita.net Hours: Monday-Thursday, 7:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.;Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 1/2 hour before Shabbos Fresh pita and other baked goods are all Pareve and Pas yisrael. The restaurant menu includes shwarma, mixed Israeli grill, shishkabob and falafel, chicken, fish, meat entrees, and salads. Saba’s Kosher Kitchen 9704 Fondren Road, Houston, TX 77096 (approx. 8.5 miles from hotel) Ph: 713-270-7222 Hours: Sunday, 9 a.m.–7 p.m.; Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m.–8:30 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Dairy cholov yisrael restaurant serving pizza, salads, soup fish and sushi. Fresh-baked pas yisrael challah on Fridays and erev Yom Tov are available with pre order. Suzie’s Grill 8402 Hillcroft, Suite B, Houston TX 77096 (approx. 6.5 miles from hotel) Ph: 713-729-5741 Website: suziesgrill.com Catering: 832-428-7071 (Susan Goldstein) Hours: Sunday-Thursday, 11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.; Friday 10:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Meat restaurant serving pas yisrael, bishul yisrael per Rema, bet Yoseph available upon request. Serving family meal specials, burgers, kabobs, steaks, Chinese dishes, chicken wings, salads, subs, sandwiches, pastas and seafood.

Other Restaurants in the Area of the Hotel Restaurants within walking distance Kenny & Ziggy’s New York Deli (0.2 mi) Moderate, casual http://www.kennyandziggys.com 2327 Post Oak Blvd Houston, TX 77056 (713) 871-8883 Hours: Mon-Fri 7 am - 9 pm; Sat-Sun 8 am - 9 pm Jenni’s Noodle House (0.1 mi) Moderate, casual http://www.noodlesrule.com/ 2027 Post Oak Houston, TX 77056 (713) 621-4200 Hours: Mon-Sat 11 am - 10 pm; Sun 12 pm - 9 pm Maggiano’s (0.1 mi) Moderate, business casual http://www.maggianos.com/ 2019 Post Oak Blvd Houston, TX 77056 (713) 961-2700 Hours: Mon-Thu 11 am - 10 pm; Fri-Sat 11 am - 11 pm; Sun 11 am - 9 pm Masraff’s (0.2 mi) Expensive, dressy http://www.masraffs.com/ 1753 Post Oak Blvd Houston, TX 77056 (713) 355-1975 Hours: Mon-Thu 10:30 am - 10 pm; Fri 10:30 am - 11 pm; Sat 5:30 pm - 11 pm Yia Yia Mary's Pappas Greek Kitchen (0.6 mi) Moderate, casual http://www.yiayiamarys.com 4747 San Felipe St Houston, TX 77056 (713) 840-8665 RDG Bar Annie (0.2 mi) Expensive, dressy http://rdgbarannie.com/ 1800 Post Oak Blvd Houston, TX 77056 (713) 840-1111 Hours: Mon-Thu 6-10 pm; Fri-Sat 6-10:30 pm; Sun 11 am-2:30 pm; Sun 5-9 pm Arcodoro (0.4 mi) Expensive, business casual, Italian http://www.arcodoro.com 5000 Westheimer Rd Ste 120 Houston, TX 77056 (713) 621-6888 Hours: Mon-Wed, Sun 11 am - 11 pm; Thu-Sat 11 am - 12 am Grand Lux Café (0.4 mi) Moderate, casual http://www.grandluxcafe.com/ 5000 Westheimer Rd Ste 690 Houston, TX 77056 (713) 626-1700 Hours: Mon-Thu 11 am-11 pm; Fri 11 am-12 am; Sat 10 am-12 am; Sun 10 am-10 pm Canyon Café (0.4 mi) Moderate, casual http://www.canyoncafe.com 5000 Westheimer Rd Ste 250 Houston, TX 77056 (713) 629-5565 Hours: Mon-Thu 11 am - 10 pm; Fri-Sat 11 am - 11 pm; Sun 11 am - 9 pm

Philippe (0.2 mi) Expensive, dressy http://www.philippehouston.com/ 1800 Post Oak Houston, TX 77056 (713) 439-1000 Hours: Mon-Fri 11:00am–3:00pm; Mon–Thu 5:30–10:30pm; Fri–Sat 5:00–11:30pm Happy Hour: Mon–Fri 4:00–6:30pm Morton’s The Steakhouse (0.4 mi) http://www.mortons.com/houstongalleria/ 5000 Westheimer Houston, TX 77056 (713)629-1946 Hours: Monday - Saturday 5:30-11pm; Sunday 5-10pm Very casual, within walking distance (in Post Oak strip center, north on Post Oak) Near San Felipe and Post Oak (about 0.3 mi): Panera Bread (http://www.panera.com) – breakfast, lunch, soup, salads, sandwiches; inexpensive; California Pizza Kitchen – pizza; moderate Berryhill Baja Grill (http://www.berryhillbajagrill.com/) – Tex-Mex; inexpensive Jimmy John’s (http://www.jimmyjohns.com/) – sandwiches; inexpensive Luby’s (www.lubys.com) – cafeteria inexpensive Tasti-D-Lite – ice cream Near Westheimer and Post Oak (about 0.5 mi): Starbucks Jamba Juice – smoothies Swirll – frozen yogurt Other restaurants, a bit further away: Tango and Malbec (http://www.tangomalbec.com/) – Argentine, Latin American; expensive (1.0 mi) Grotto (http://www.grottohouston.com/) – Italian; moderate (0.8 mi) Piatto Ristorante (http://www.piattoristorante.com) – moderate, business casual (0.7 mi) Galleria (Westheimer and Post Oak) – also has many restaurants in the mall.

Bryan Stone & James Lee Kessler Monday, June 17, 2013

Texas Jews: Myths and Realities The speakers will describe the history of Jewish life in Texas through the lens of myth and misconception. When the first Jewish communities began to emerge in the 1850s, immigrants were attracted in part by a Texas mythology that emphasized individual freedom and economic opportunity. In the twentieth century, Texas retained its appeal as a place of mythic opportunity, as the Galveston Movement illustrates. Even today, myths persist about Texas Jewry. The speakers will provide evidence and anecdotes to show that Texas is, and has been for more more than 150 years, the setting for a thriving, self-identified, and spiritually rich - if a somewhat distinctive - Jewish community.

Bryan Edward Stone

James Lee Kessler

Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams Wednesday, June 20, 2013

The Yerushalmi Talmud: The Joys of the Talmud of the Land of Israel The Talmud of the land of Israel, the Yerushalmi, is a work with its own compositional rules and language, which differ significantly from the Bavliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. In this session, we will explore the ways the Yerushalmi differs from the Bavli in order to appreciate this document to its fullest.

Sunday, June 16 9 am – 12 pm 10 am – 6 pm 12–6 pm

Board Meeting REGISTRATION & INFORMATION Hospitality Suite Open

12 –6 pm

EXHIBITS OPEN

12 - 3 pm

Council Meeting

3:30 - 5 pm

Concorde

OCLC Update

Richmond

Newcomers Welcome

Judaica Librarianship Editorial Board Meeting

9 pm

Sydney Taylor Awards Committee Meeting

WELCOME BBQ DINNER

Hospitality Suite Open

Memorial Suite Room 314 Ballroom B Concorde

4:305:30pm 6 pm

9-11 pm

Ballroom Foyer

Forum Woodway Ballroom C Woodway Memorial Suite Room 314

Monday, June 17 6 am 6:30 am 7:15-8:30 am 8 am-5 pm 8 am 5:15 pm Rooms 8:45 -10 am

Orthodox Minyan

1A Concorde Synagogues/Centers Roundtables

Morning Walk Board Room Egalitarian Minyan BREAKFAST Mentor Mingle table & Las Vegas table REGISTRATION & INFORMATION EXHIBITS OPEN 1B Forum Schools Roundtable

1C San Felipe Uncovering the History of the Cairo Genizah Manuscript Collections: The story So Far...

Quorum Ballroom C Ballroom Foyer Ballroom B

1D Richmond Recreating Cataloging Culture: Backlog Reduction Jewish Legal Materials in Libraries

History of Jewish Archives and Libraries in the Middle Ages and the Medieval Educational Curriculum

OPENING PLENARY Texas Jews: Myths and Realities Bryan Stone & Rabbi Jimmy Kessler

10:15 11:15 am 11:25 am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12:25 pm

2A Concorde Place of Gathering: Synagogue Archives at Yeshiva University Early American Judaica

2B Forum Current Trends in Adult and Children's Programming for Schools, Institutions and Libraries

2C San Felipe OPALS User Group

Ballroom A

2D Richmond The Secular Yiddish Music Movement: The Broder Singers Kashrut in America: Publications in the US

Monday, June 17 12:30-1:35 pm 1:45-3 pm

3-3:40 pm 3:45-5 pm Rooms 5:15-6:15 pm

6:15-10 pm 8:30 pm

AWARDS LUNCH

Ballroom C

3A Concorde

3B Forum

3C San Felipe

3D Richmond

Books on Non-Jewish Law in Hebrew Script

Publications of the Czech Jews

Technology Tools for Your Library

Managing Volunteers in Synagogue Libraries

Jewish Law Information “Yekkes:” (German Jews) Creating a Small Systems and their Effect on in Argentina Synagogue Library: Jewish Law Rulings in Something from Nothing the Information Era SSC Division Meeting Ballroom C RAS Division Meeting Ballroom A GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Ballroom A 4A 4B 4C 4D Concorde Forum San Felipe Richmond What Do We Do With the AJL Strategic Planning Tweeting and Skyping and An Early 20th Century Books as the E-revolution Chatting, Oy Vey! - How Judeo-Persian Translation Rolls On? What AJL Can Learn from Jewish Librarians and of the Arabian Nights from Other Professional Educators Can Use Uzbekistan Using Library Automation Organizations Technology to Enhance Software to Organize All of Student Connections with The Holocaust in Farsi Your Resources Jewish Authors and Texts Hospitality Suite Open Memorial Suite Orthodox Minyan Box dinner pickup Room 314 Evening event: Preview of the film Deli Man with special guests Ziggy Gruber (Houston deli man) & Erik Anjou (filmmaker)

Board Room Ballroom A

Tuesday, June 18 6 am 6:30 am 7:15-8:30 am

Orthodox Minyan

Morning Walk Board Room BREAKFAST

Egalitarian Minyan

Quorum Ballroom C

Weine Users Group Table

8 am - 5 pm 8 am - 1:30 pm Rooms 8:45 - 10:15 am

Rooms 10:30 am 12 pm

REGISTRATION & INFORMATION EXHIBITS OPEN 5A Concorde RAS Cataloging

6A Concorde Library of Congress Panel: Israel and Judaica Section Update

5B Forum Emergency Preparedness: Hurricanes, Earthquakes and Floods, Oh My!

6B Forum Looking for the “Owners of the Book”: The Back-story of the Vogelkopf Haggadah

5C San Felipe Sydney Taylor Book Award Tell All - Part I: Exploring the Criteria Used to Evaluate Books

6C San Felipe Sydney Taylor Book Award Tell All - Part II

Ballroom Foyer Ballroom B 5D Richmond Jews in the Early History of Texas Finding Rebecca: The Memoir of Rebecca Cohen Mayer 1837-1930 6D Richmond Apples and Honey to Blintzes: Through the Year with Preschool Library Times

12:00 – 12:35 pm 12:40 - 1:10 pm

EXHIBITS FINAL OPPORTUNITY

AJL SPEED DATING

Ballroom Foyer

1:10 - 2 pm

COMMITTEE LUNCH

Ballroom C

Ballroom B

Tuesday, June 18 Rooms 2:15-3:45 p.m.

7A Concorde Preserving Southern Jewish History: An Innovative Encyclopedia How Being Jewish in the Bible Belt Informs Our Life Experiences

Rooms 4:00-5:00 p.m.

8A Concorde Scholarly Communication JS Style: Mapping Jewish Studies Academic Journals;

7B Forum Jennie Maas Flexner, First Readers' Advisory Librarian at the New York Public Library An Overview of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization 8B Forum Family History Research: Basic Genealogy Methods, Reference Service, and Sources

7C San Felipe Lights! Cameras! Libraries!: Building a DVD Collection and Creating Innovative Programming

7D Richmond Ephemera in Archives

8C San Felipe Best Practices for Librarians and Teachers: Using Jewish Books for Children in Your Classroom and Library

8D Richmond Beyond Courage: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

Cataloging Realia

Leveraging the Power of Your Discovery Service for a More Successful Research Experience

5:30 pm

Orthodox Minyan

6-7 pm 7-10 pm 10-11 pm

RECEPTION & Book Signing DINNER Hospitality Suite Open

Board Room Ballroom Foyer Ballroom B/C Memorial Suite Room 314

Wednesday, June 19 6 am 6:30-7:30 am 7:15-8:30 am 8 am - 1 pm Rooms 8:45– 10:15 am

Orthodox Minyan

9A Concorde National Library of Israel: Update 2013

Morning Walk Board Room Egalitarian Minyan Quorum BREAKFAST Ballroom C INFORMATION DESK Ballroom Foyer 9B 9C 9D

Forum Exploring the Shel Silverstein Archives The Personal Archive of Abraham Joshua Heschel

10:30 –11:30 am

11:30am-12:30 pm

San Felipe Online Catalog Fun! Accessing E-books and Expanding Your Catalog Using Your Library Software

Richmond Meet the Author: Demystifying the Writing Process

CLOSING PLENARY Ballroom A Rabbi Judith Abrams The Yerushalmi Talmud: The Joys of the Talmud of the Land of Israel BOX LUNCH PICKUP Memorial Suite Room 314

12:00 – 1:00 pm 1:30 -5:30 pm

Convention Wrap-Up Meeting OPTIONAL TOURS

Concorde

SUNDAY-MONDAY

SUNDAY, JUNE 16 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Board Meeting

Concorde

10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Registration and Information

Ballroom Foyer

12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Hospitality Suite Open (Room 314)

Memorial Suite

12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

Exhibits Open

Ballroom B

12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Council Meeting

Concorde

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

OCLC Update Newcomers Welcome

Richmond Forum

4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Judaica Librarianship Editorial Board

Woodway

6:00 p.m.

Welcome BBQ Dinner

Ballroom C

9:00 p.m.

Sydney Taylor Awards Committee Meeting Woodway

9:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

Hospitality Suite Open (Room 314)

Memorial Suite

MONDAY, JUNE 17 6:00 a.m.

Morning Walk

6:30 a.m.

Orthodox Minyan Egalitarian Minyan

Board Quorum

7:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Breakfast Mentor Mingle Las Vegas Convention Committee

Ballroom C

8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Registration and Information

Ballroom Foyer

8:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m.

Exhibits Open

Ballroom B

MONDAY

8:45 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Session 1

Session 1A Synagogues/Centers Roundtable Moderated by Rachel Kamin

Concorde

Session 1B Schools Roundtable Moderated by Joyce Levine

Forum

Session 1C Moderated by Jim Rosenbloom

San Felipe

Uncovering the History of the Cairo Genizah Manuscript Collections – The Story So Far Rebecca Jefferson This paper will focus on the ongoing research being carried out by Rebecca Jefferson on the history of the Cairo Genizah manuscript collections. Since 2008, Jefferson has been examining letters and documents held in various libraries around the world to uncover the story behind the discovery of the Cairo Genizah. These archives have revealed fascinating tidbits about the main protagonists, Solomon Schechter, Elkan Nathan Adler and Adolf Neubauer, as well as the backstory of a shadowy nobleman, Count Riamo d’Hulst. Jefferson will outline the discoveries so far, providing examples from previously unseen letters, and she will discuss the challenges of this research and the problems ahead. History of Jewish Archives and Libraries in the Middle Ages and the Medieval Educational Curriculum David Levy The evolution of Jewish medieval classification of library collections evolved over the Tannaitic (70 CE to 200 CE), Amoraic (200-500 CE), Savoraim (500-600), Geonic (600-900), Rishonim (900-1450), Achronim (1450-Shoah) periods as the genres of Jewish knowledge expanded and the world of Jewish knowledge developed in an oral tradition that later was set down. Mordechai Breuer, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Isadore Twersky, Adin Steinsaltz, and Nathan Drazin have shown that this evolution of the Jewish library within the context of Jewish educational “institutions,” such as the medieval Yeshivot, Rabbinic Academies, Bate Midrash, Synagogues, and selfregulating Jewish Communal government (kehilah), allowed for the classification and organization of manuscripts and sefarim to remain internally coherent. Session 1D Moderated by Marlene Schiffman

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Re-creating Cataloging Culture: Backlog Reduction as Empowerment Sharon Benamou When new library initiatives were paired with space limitations, staff and librarians in the Cataloging and Metadata Center at UCLA became concerned about their growing backlogs, especially those in non-Roman scripts. Sharon Benamou was appointed chair of a group charged to develop new workflows and methods to eliminate these backlogs. The speaker will

MONDAY discuss the specific methods chosen for different historic backlogs held in the department, including Southeast Asian, the general backlog and our newest project, the Cummings Collection of Hebraica and Judaica. Jewish Legal Materials in Libraries Aaron Kuperman Under Library of Congress rules, the Law Library, rather than the Hebraic section’s reading room, gets all materials pertaining to the Israeli legal system, the legal status of Jews regardless of place, and works on Mishpat Ivri (aspects of halacha addressing subjects that western legal scholars consider to be "law" rather than "religion"). These materials are often of interest to Judaica scholars and are often collected by libraries specializing in Jewish materials. However, since LC considers them to be "law," they are cataloged according to the norms for cataloging legal materials rather than Judaica. 10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Opening Plenary Ballroom A Texas Jews: Myths and Realities Bryan Stone and Rabbi Jimmy Kessler

11:25 a.m.-12:25 p.m. Session 2 Session 2A Moderated by Elliot H. Gertel

Concorde

Place of Gathering: Synagogue Archives at Yeshiva University Shulamith Berger This session will provide a description and overview of collections of synagogue archives at Yeshiva University, with an emphasis on describing and providing examples of different types of records which typically comprise synagogue archives. There will be discussion of the history of synagogues, chiefly in New York City (plus a small taste of the large state of Texas), why it is important to collect synagogue records, and different aspects of acquiring synagogue records. Early American Judaica: The Gershwind-Bennett Isaac Leeser Digitization Project Arthur Kiron Over seven years in the making, the Gershwind-Bennett Isaac Leeser Digitization Project uses digital technologies to make accessible on-line the physically dispersed corpus of over 2,100 handwritten letters, monograph and serial publications, as well as print material related to Isaac Leeser. Isaac Leeser (1806 -1868) was an architect of 19 th century American Jewish life, editor of the Occident, the first American Jewish monthly periodical, the founder of the first American Jewish publication society and of Maimonides College, the nation's first rabbinical seminary. The Leeser corpus is the first of what we hope will be a continuing series of such initiatives within the framework of the Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project, an international initiative to integrate digital technologies into the way we study early American Jewry. Its primary goal is to create an open access digital repository or “genizah” of physically dispersed primary sources that document the development of Jewish life in the western hemisphere from the 16th-19th centuries.

MONDAY Session 2B Moderated by Etta Gold

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Current Trends in Adult and Children's Programming for Schools, Institutions and Libraries Marilyn Hassid We're about community! In this day of digital everything, how do we entice people to come together instead of staying at home and watching a screen? Our synagogues, centers, schools, and libraries are the only places we can truly experience programs that provide opportunities to gather together, under one roof, in one place. Thanks to the digital age, much of this can be done on a shoe-string budget. Marilyn Hassid will share tips she has gained from her 30 years of experience producing hundreds of community arts programs for the entire Houston community through the JCC and other venues. Her presentation will discuss current trends in adult and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programming, how libraries might supplement (complement) what their related schools and institutions are currently doing, or how they might launch programming these schools and institutions should and could be doing. Session 2C OPALS User Group

San Felipe

Session 2D Moderated by Sharon Benamou

Richmond

The Secular Yiddish Music Movement: The Broder Singers Amanda Seigel The Broder singers (Yiddish: di Broder zinger) were the first professional, secular Yiddish performers, bringing Yiddish songs and short dramas into wine cellars, restaurants and inns in Galicia, Romania and Russia, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and later overlapping with the early Yiddish theater. The Broder repertoire was both serious and comic, influenced by Chasidism on one hand and haskole (enlightenment) on the other. This lecture explores the personalities behind this legendary movement, their performance styles, and the (often murky) provenance and content of their repertoire. Kashrut in America: Publications in the US Tina Weiss This session will explore select 20 th and 21st century American publications for laypeople dealing with the observance of Jewish dietary laws, while highlighting various formats, developments and concerns. 12:30 p.m.-1:35 p.m.

Awards Lunch

Ballroom C

MONDAY 1:45 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Session 3A Moderated by Yossi Galron

Session 3 Concorde

Books on Non-Jewish Law in Hebrew Script Aaron Kuperman While most “law” books in Hebrew characters are either Jewish, or in recent years, Israeli law, there are some odd exceptions. These are books written in a Jewish language, probably Hebrew, but perhaps Yiddish, on the non-Jews’ legal system. Some reflect an author trying to inform the Jews of the non-Jews’ laws that might recently have become applicable to them, or to discuss their impact in a language that was more familiar, and perhaps allowed more freedom than writing in a language that could easily be read by the non-Jewish population. While these books may be important for studying legal history, they are largely inaccessible to mainstream legal scholars due to being in Hebrew script, and the context would be hard to appreciate by Judaica scholars lacking legal training, though their very existence is perhaps an interesting source for studying how Jews related to the non-Jewish environment. Jewish Law Information Systems and their Effect on Jewish Law Rulings in the Information Era Dan Bouhnik The 'information revolution' completely changed society's attitude to information. In this study, we wish to examine the possible effects of halachic information based on halachic ruling. We will examine the possibility of autonomic ruling by individuals who have access to the basics, but lack official ruling authority. The ruling model will be examined with relation to two other models, which are in some ways similar – education and health care. Through the study of what is happening in these two areas, an attempt will be made to evaluate how the information era, in general, and information systems, specifically, may affect the world of halachic ruling. Session 3B Moderated by Sheryl Stahl

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Sparks of Light: Publications of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic Michlean Amir In a country with an incredibly rich Jewish cultural history, for decades after World War II, the very small Jewish community that remained there fought for its survival as an active entity. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, ten small communities have emerged, organizing holiday activities, support for survivors, publishing newsletters, and more. The purpose of this presentation is to describe the publications of the Prague Jewish community as well as those of the smaller ones such as Olomouc and Brno, that have been coming out on a regular basis, whether in paper or electronically. Yekkes (German Jews) in Argentina Rita Saccal Although the German Jewish immigration was not as large as the Polish immigration, the contribution of the Yekkes (German Jews) was very important for the cultural life in Buenos Aires. In order to keep their mother tongue, they created editorial houses printing books in German language, newspapers, bookstores and circulating or lending libraries.

MONDAY Session 3C Moderated by Annette Goldsmith

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Technology Tools for Your Library Jennifer Wyatt Get creative! Embrace technology in your library and learn about 21 st century tools that can be used by students, teachers, and librarians. Learn about useful tech tools to help promote, collaborate, and share with your faculty, parents, community, and the world. Tools to be discussed include Prezi, Livebinders, Mighty Bell, Smore, Flip Snack, Symbaloo, Google Apps and more. Session 3D Moderated by Kathryn Hall

Richmond

Managing Volunteers in Synagogue Libraries Susan Freiband Susan Freiband will outline some ideas for effectively managing volunteers in synagogue libraries, including recruiting and promoting volunteers from within the congregation, and training new volunteers. The importance of communication and feedback to build an effective team will be discussed. Little Shul in the Woods: Creating Something from Nothing Dede Fox Ducharme In 1982, after moving to a planned community thirty miles north of Houston, Dede Fox Ducharme and her family joined a small congregation that met with visiting rabbis in various locations. As Beth Shalom of The Woodlands grew into a synagogue with 170 families, a rabbi and a building, many families expressed a need for a synagogue library. What began as a couple of boxes of donated books and a pile of index cards eventually grew into a meticulously designed, automated library with 2,000 cataloged books, a children's area, a small bank of computers, a display case, and a Torah study table. Follow Dede's journey from parent, religious school teacher, and board representative to synagogue librarian, as little by little, she and her spiritual community built something from nothing. 3:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.

3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Division Meetings: SSC Meeting RAS Meeting

Ballroom C Ballroom A

General Membership Meeting

Ballroom A

5:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m. Session 4A Moderated by Marga Hirsch

Session 4 Concorde

What Do We Do With the Books? Fred Isaac As the e-revolution rolls on, and Kindles and tablets begin to rule the world, how are librarians to deal with the material we already have? This talk will discuss some of the questions we are discussing in Oakland, and suggest some concepts that may be useful, as technology becomes even more ubiquitous. These important issues include: How â&#x20AC;&#x153;newâ&#x20AC;? does the collection have to

MONDAY be? How do we decide what to purchase? Who is our clientele, if the younger generation is using e-readers? How do we reach them? What is our teaching role? How do we market ourselves? Using Library Automation Software to Organize All of Your Resources Shara Blackmore A library is more than a collection of books found within the library walls. It extends out into every area of the synagogue and school, including the administration office, music department, gym and sports area, and to each classroom. Each area has a variety of resources and items that all help to enrich the synagogue's congregation and student education. A library automation software program will help to organize, catalogue, and keep track of all of these valuable and important resources. Session 4B Moderated by Zachary Baker

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Strategic Planning for AJL: Process, Methods, Timeline and Members’ Participation Dr. Yaffa Weisman The world of libraries is experiencing rapid changes in technology, modes of access, costs of delivery and professional training. The world of Judaica Librarianship is also affected by the ways in which Jewish institutions change, redefine themselves, allocate resources, and reach out to constituents. The AJL has been in a state of flux over the last few years reflecting these realities, and in order to survive and thrive, embarked on a strategic planning process. The process entails a review of AJL’s vision, mission and all its operations, and aims to create an effective plan of action that will ensure the survival and promote the growth of the association. This presentation will describe the process that began in January of this year, what has been accomplished so far, and where we plan to go for the next six months. It will provide an opportunity to ask questions and offer input to the AJL Strategic Planning Team. What AJL Can Learn from Other Professional Organizations David Hirsch, Elliot H. Gertel, Sharon Benamou These are challenging times for Judaica librarians and for AJL, but we're not alone. How are other professional library organizations dealing with the sluggish economy, membership dropoff, conferences and other issues? This panel discussion features AJL members who are active in other library organizations who will share their insights. Session 4C Moderated by Cherille Berman

San Felipe

Tweeting and Skyping and Chatting, Oy Vey! - How Jewish Librarians and Educators can Use Technology to Enhance Student Connections with Jewish Authors and Texts Jenny Meyerhoff Most Jewish institutions understand the importance of reading and studying all kinds of texts. We are, after all, The People of the Book. But learning directly from the authors of the books we study is a unique opportunity for insights and connections we might otherwise not have made. Bringing an author to a synagogue is a wonderful experience, but can be expensive and timeconsuming. However, so many wonderful technologies exist now that enable individual classrooms, adult study-groups and even pre-schools, to have meaningful time with authors and their books for very little cost. This presentation will give you everything you need to begin scheduling your own “Virtual Author Visit.” The speaker will introduce the most popular

MONDAY-TUESDAY methods of connecting with authors and demonstrate their usage by staging mini-author visits for attendees to participate in. She will also discuss ways librarians and educators can use technology to extend these author/literature connections both before and after their “virtual visit.” Handouts will include step-by-step guides for each of the methods mentioned, a virtual visit Tips and Tricks sheet to ensure a smooth experience, and a list of children’s and young adult authors who provide virtual visits. Session 4D Moderated by Jackie Ben-Efraim

Richmond

An Early 20th Century Judeo-Persian Translation of the Arabian Nights from Uzbekistan James Weinberger The “Kitab-i Qissah’namah-i Hizaro Yik Shab” is a Judeo-Persian book published in 1915 in Kokand, Uzbekistan. Princeton University Library recently acquired volume two. Yaari has no record of it, and it seems not to be represented in any other library. The book is a translation or transliteration of stories from the “Thousand and One Nights,” a cultural artifact which is not indigenous to Persian, Jewish or Uzbek culture. This paper considers the conditions that made this most unlikely book possible. The Holocaust in Farsi Dr. Ardashir Babaknia Only through knowledge and understanding can another Holocaust be prevented. Dr. Babaknia’s four volume work on the Holocaust in Farsi is a 2013 AJL Judaica Reference Award Honorable Mention winner. 6:15 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

8:30 p.m.

Hospitality Suite Open (Room 314) Box Dinner Pickup Orthodox Minyan

Memorial Suite Board Room

Preview of documentary Deli Man (movie) Ballroom A with special guests Ziggy Gruber (Houston deli man) & Erik Anjou (filmmaker)

TUESDAY, JUNE 18 6:00 a.m. 6:30 a.m.

Morning Walk Orthodox Minyan Egalitarian Minyan

Board Room Quorum

7:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Breakfast Weine Users Group

Ballroom C Ballroom C

8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Registration and Information

Ballroom Foyer

8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Exhibits Open

Ballroom B

TUESDAY 8:45 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Session 5 Session 5A RAS Cataloging Moderated by Heidi Lerner

Concorde

Session 5B Moderated by Rebecca Jefferson

Forum

Hurricanes, Earthquakes and Floods, Oh My!: How to Prepare Your Library for a Disaster So You Won't Feel Like You've Landed in Oz After Disaster Strikes Jackie Ben-Efraim In this session, Jackie Ben-Efraim will share resources to help you prepare an emergency plan for your library and fill out a one page document to share with fellow staff members so that they have a plan of action beforehand. Session 5C Sydney Taylor Book Award

San Felipe

Sydney Taylor Book Award Tell AlI, Part 1: Exploring the Criteria Used to Evaluate Books Aimee Lurie, Chair and the STBA committee Join us as we reveal the criteria used to evaluate books submitted to the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee. The positive merits of the winners, honors, and notables will be discussed and we will divulge the exceptional qualities that made them worthy of distinction. Not only will you get insight into the work of the committee, but you can use the same criteria to evaluate books in your own collection. Practical tips to use STBA winners for programs will be shared and we will also point out books that did not measure up to the standards of the STBA committee, but may be appropriate for individual library collections. Session 5D Moderated by Lynn Waghalter

Richmond

Jews in the Early History of Texas Yaakov Aronson This session is dedicated to the memory of Bernard Rapoport, 1917-2012, a Texas Jew who made great contributions in many areas including education in the US and Israel; local and national politics; philanthropy, general and Jewish in the US and Israel; and libraries. It is hard to find an event in history in which Jews, broadly defined, did not participate. The early history of Texas, from the first colonization in the 1500s until the war against Mexico in 1836 which resulted in Texas independence, was no exception. This presentation will discuss the most notable contributions made by Jews during that period of history. Finding Rebecca: The Memoir of Rebecca Cohen Mayer, 1837-1930 Kay Goldman While doing research at the Jacob Rader Marcus Archive in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kay Goldman discovered the memoir of entrepreneur Henry Mayer. After reading it, she realized it was the memoir of Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, Rebecca. This remarkable woman who married at fifteen and traveled as the lone woman down the Santa Fe Trail deserved to have her story told. Thus, Kay began

TUESDAY to verify the story Rebecca told. First she verified simple facts such as the date her mother arrived in the United States. However she also uncovered information the family never knew— the fact that her father owned slaves.

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Session 6A Library of Congress Update

Session 6 Concorde

Library of Congress Panel: Israel and Judaica Section Update Aaron Taub, Joan Biella, Marina Korenberg, Gail Shirazi, Galina Teverovsky Representatives from the Israel and Judaica Section at the Library of Congress will discuss developments in acquisitions and cataloging during the past year, including a presentation by Joan Biella on progress in RDA implementation as it relates to Hebraica and Judaica cataloging. Session 6B Moderated by Danielle Winter

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Looking for the “Owners of the Book”: The Back-Story of the Vogelkopf Haggaddah. Nancy Poole The early 14th century Vogelkopf (Bird's Head) Haggadah has been featured in scholarly works, a facsimile, and a recent "pop-up" version. The manuscript’s history, however, has not been thoroughly studied. While working with the facsimile for an MLIS seminar, Nancy Poole began researching its past via archives and secondary sources. Though her findings are preliminary, they will be of interest to librarians concerned about pre-Shoah provenance of manuscripts in their collections and simply curious about the background of an incredible manuscript. This will be a highly interactive session. Nancy looks forward to hearing about the experiences of other librarians, collectors, and any who have viewed the original work. Session 6C Sydney Taylor Book Award

San Felipe

Sydney Taylor Book Award Tell All, Part II Connect with this year’s winners Linda Glaser, Adam Gustavson, Louise Borden and Deborah Heiligman as they provide in-depth discussion of their books and methods. There will be time for questions. Session 6D Moderated by Ellen Share

Richmond

Apples and Honey to Blintzes: Through the Year with Preschool Library Times Susan Dubin Starting with Rosh HaShanah and looking at stories, poems, and activities to use with the youngest library users, we will share ideas for good books and follow-up activities that can be used in the library or in the classroom through the year. Library lessons will introduce young children to the library, the concept of borrowing and returning, book care, parts of a book, and good listening skills. Preschool skills such as color and shape recognition, identifying sounds, counting, and alphabet will also be integrated into the storytimes. Come prepared to share your good ideas as well!

TUESDAY 12:00 p.m.-12:35 p.m. 12:40 p.m.-1:10 p.m.

Exhibits Final Opportunity AJL Speed Dating

Ballroom B Ballroom Foyer

1:10 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Committee Luncheon

Ballroom C

2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Session 7A Moderated by Marlene Reynolds

Session 7 Concorde

Preserving Southern Jewish History: An Innovative Encyclopedia Josh Parshall Since its origins as the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) has been a leader in the documentation and interpretation of Jewish history in the American South. Josh Parshall, ISJL oral historian, will discuss the history and mission of the organization, including the Online Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities - a unique resource for learning about Jewish history in the region - and his own work conducting oral history research in Southern communities. The session will include video excerpts from the ISJL collection and tips for conducting and archiving your own oral history interviews. How Being Jewish in the Bible Belt Informs Our Life Experiences Debra Winegarten Debra will discuss her experiences leading workshops and giving presentations on the subject of “Being Jewish in Texas” over the past year. She will share stories she’s gathered from other people’s experiences, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and talk about how these experiences can be used to educate others on the importance of recognizing and honoring diversity among all people. Session 7B Moderated by Peggy Pearlstein

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Bringing Books and People Together: Jennie Maas Flexner, First Readers' Advisory Librarian at the New York Public Library Douglas Campbell Jennie Maas Flexner (1882-1944) was the first readers’ advisory librarian at the New York Public Library from 1928-1944. She was a champion for immigrants to the city, an advocate for adult education, and author of books revealing a strong service philosophy to library patrons. As a pioneer in readers’ advisory services, her patron-centered philosophy is inspiring and relevant, serving as a model to librarians today. 10 Volumes, 10,000 Pages, 3,000 Years of Jewish Culture: An Overview of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Joyce Rappaport The Posen Library is collecting more than 3,000 years of Jewish cultural artifacts, texts, and paintings, selected by more than 120 internationally recognized scholars. One volume, covering the contemporary period, was published in 2012. This presentation will discuss the philosophies, choices, and overviews of the forthcoming volumes. Attention will be given to how librarians and teachers might make use of both the paper editions and the planned digital site.

TUESDAY Session 7C Moderated by Fred Isaac

San Felipe

Lights! Cameras! Libraries!: Creating High Interest Film Programs with Your DVD Collection Rachel Kamin and Lisa Silverman Learn how to build and develop a film collection for your library as well as the ins and outs of hosting film screenings and film-related programs and events. Find out about new Jewish interest and Israeli feature films and documentaries and tips for keeping up with the latest releases. Copyright law and licensing will also be discussed. Annotated bibliographies will be provided and trailers of recommended films will be shown. Session 7D Moderated by Jasmin Nof

Richmond

Ephemera: The “Poor Step - Child” of the Archive - A Look at Current Descriptive Practice of Ephemera in Archives and Special Collections Dina Herbert Ephemera have a storied and stormy history in archives and special collections: they live in a space between printed, non-unique material and unique materials, and pose preservation challenges for librarians and archivists. Yet ephemera are among the most interesting materials in libraries and archives. As researchers start to utilize ephemera, catalogers must address the need for using ephemera. This presentation demonstrates challenges facing catalogers of ephemera in all types of institutions, including Judaic collections, and offers some possible solutions. While few standards are offered to catalogers, methods exist to allow users access to collections. Beyond the Book: Cataloging Realia Sheryl Stahl Along with the typical print and music materials, the Hebrew Union College library has a number of more unusual items. Sheryl Stahl will share her adventures cataloging stamps, coins, fortune telling cards, jigsaw puzzle, stereographic picture cards, and even a license plate.

4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Session 8A Moderated by Rachel Simon

Session 8 Concorde

Scholarly Communication JS Style: Mapping Jewish Studies Academic Journals Rachel Leket-Mor This presentation will feature the history of Jewish Studies academic journals published in English and explore recent developments in light of the digital revolution. Based on a survey of current peer-reviewed JS journals, the presenter will discuss publishing models, distribution techniques, and discovery tools in an attempt to map the field. In this context, the presenter will discuss AJL’s scholarly journal, Judaica Librarianship.

TUESDAY EBSCO: Leveraging the Power of Your Discovery Service for a More Successful Research Experience Tim Heiges Join EBSCO’s Tim Heiges for an informative discussion on how EBSCO can help you maximize the value and accessibility of your library collection with EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Session 8B Moderated by Susan Whitman

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Family History Research – Basic Genealogy Methods; Reference Service; and Sources Sue Kaufman Currently there is a very strong national interest in family history. As with any research, there are methods, processes and sources unique to this study. An overview of beginning steps, tools for reference interviews, and sources used that help uncover our Judaic heritage will be offered. Session 8C Moderated by Diane Rauchwerger

San Felipe

Best Practices for Librarians and Teachers – Using Jewish Books for Children in Your Classroom and Library Aimee Lurie and Barbara Bietz Aimee and Barbara will share their insights about Jewish children’s literature and their behindthe-scenes experiences as chairs of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee. In an interactive presentation, they will explore the age-old question, “What makes a book Jewish?” Participants will discover new ideas for implementing classroom and library activities that will engage and inspire young readers, including puppet shows, writer’s workshops, and author visits. Find out Aimee and Barbara’s recommendations for the best book selections, from folktales and middle grade fiction, young adult novels, Jewish celebrations, non-fiction and more. Helpful online resources will be presented. This session is a wonderful introduction for first-time attendees, teachers, and librarians. Session 8D Moderated by Susan Dubin

Richmond

Beyond Courage: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust Doreen Rappaport Six years ago a reference librarian in the Dorot Room of New York’s 42 nd Street Library brought Doreen Rappaport three volumes she had not requested – all about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust – and sparked her curiosity to explore this subject. Rappaport will share her research journey from domestic and international libraries and archives to her work with Holocaust scholars and resisters to shape a book that covers the most up-to-date concepts of “resistance” and reveals how Jews organized to rescue themselves and others. Beyond Courage garnered six starred reviews, was selected as one of the best non-fiction books of 2012 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and awarded a Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Teen Readers by the Association of Jewish Libraries. 5:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

Orthodox Minyan Reception and Book Signing Dinner Hospitality Suite Open (Room 314)

Board Room Ballroom Foyer Ballroom B/C Memorial Suite

WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 6:00 a.m.

Morning Walk

6:30 a.m.

Orthodox Minyan Egalitarian Minyan

7:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Information Desk

Board Room Quorum

8:45 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Session 9 Session 9A Moderated by Yaffa Weisman

Concorde

National Library of Israel: Update 2013 Marina Goldsmith and Elhanan Adler The National Library of Israel (NLI), now in its120 th year (5th year of independence), continues to make major progress towards its goal of being a modern national library for both the State of Israel and the Jewish people. During the past year the library has introduced a new user interface to its bibliographic records, enabled multi-alphabet searching (both persons and subjects), as well as preparing for the changes in national bibliographic standards related to RDA. The library has created and staffed a department of educational services which offers many options to all levels of users, from school children to researchers. Construction of the new building, on a site opposite the Knesset, will begin soon. On the international scene, the Library is taking an active part in the Europeana digital initiative and planning a cooperative project of scanning Hebrew manuscripts worldwide. This session will present these and additional ongoing and planned projects. Session 9B Moderated by Shuli Berger

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Exploring the Shel Silverstein Archives Joy Kingsolver The Shel Silverstein Archives holds the literary estate of the beloved children’s author and documents his life from his Jewish roots in Chicago through his career as children’s poet, playwright, award-winning songwriter, and cartoonist for Playboy. The archives contains his original drawings, galleys, drafts, letters, manuscripts, and published material as well as his extensive collection of antiquarian children’s books. In 2011, a new book of poems called Every Thing On It was published, drawing on this unpublished material in the archives. This presentation will discuss the challenge of preservation, organizing and documenting the work of this prolific author. The Personal Archive of Abraham Joshua Heschel Rachel Ariel Joshua Heschel, a scholar, writer and theologian is widely recognized as one of influential Jewish spiritual leaders of the 20 th century. The Heschel archive consists of containing manuscripts, correspondence, publications, documents and photographs five decades and at least four languages. Included among the papers are notes and

the most 85 boxes spanning drafts for

WEDNESDAY nearly all of Heschel’s published works, as well as extensive correspondence with some of the leading religious figures of his time, such as Martin Buber, Thomas Merton, and Reinhold Niebuhr. The papers also contain extensive documentation on Heschel’s life-long commitment to social justice, including planning documents, correspondence with organizers, speeches, and even hate mail. In the presentation, Rachel will introduce Heschel’s life and work, his writings and his religious and social activity as it is revealed through his personal archive. She will present images of a variety of items from the archive and discuss the challenges and discoveries experienced in processing this outstanding collection as it is being prepared for scholars and researchers. Session 9C Moderated by Joel Tuchman

San Felipe

Online Catalog Fun! Accessing E-books and Expanding Your Catalog Using Your Library Software Lisa Silverman The staff at Sinai Temple Library in Los Angeles has developed an online catalog with many new features that are fun to use. Library director Lisa Silverman will share what they have learned about how libraries can offer tools to patrons such as e-books, Kindle books, databases and lists of “newest” or “most popular” titles that can be accessed directly from the catalog page within the Alexandria software program. Those who use other online systems will be able to adapt their catalogs to include all these features. Session 9D Moderated by Charna Gross

Richmond

Meet the Author: Demystifying the Writing Process Linda Glaser Linda Glaser enjoys demystifying the writing process almost as much as she enjoys writing. She’ll talk about her first drafts, revisions, rejections, and behind-the-scenes secrets along with some things you may be surprised to know about creating a book. There will be plenty of time for Q&A. 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Closing Plenary Ballroom A The Yerushalmi Talmud: The Joys of the Talmud of the Land of Israel Rabbi Judith Abrams

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Box Lunch Pickup

(Room 314)

12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

Convention Wrap-up Meeting

1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

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Rabbi Judith Z Abrams is a woman with a mission. She wants to bring the beauty of Rabbinic literature to as many people, and with as much depth, as possible. To that end, she has published many books on Rabbinic literature and liturgies for children. She earned her PhD in Rabbinic literature from the Baltimore Hebrew University and is the founder and director of Maqom: A School for Adult Talmud Study where anyone can learn, regardless of their background. Maqom classes are also available on the internet (http://www.maqom.com). Rabbi Abrams received the Covenant Award for outstanding performance in the field of Jewish Education and is a commissioned Senior Religious Advisor of the State of Texas. She lives in Houston with her husband Steven. Elhanan Adler retired from the National Library of Israel in 2009 and is currently a consultant to the National Library of Israel. He is also the head of the graduate program in library and information science at David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem and coordinator of the Israeli academic bibliographic network. Michlean Lowy Amir is a graduate of Northeastern University and the Jewish Theological Seminary and holds an MLS from Simmons College in Boston. She has worked mainly in Judaica libraries and archives - community, academic, and special ones. She is currently Reference Coordinator of the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.. Erik Greenberg Anjou is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA), Northwestern University (MA) and the American Film Institute (Directing Fellow). Although the subject of his work ranges from Ivy League football to abstract expressionist painting, Mr. Anjou has a particular passion for Jewish and Israeli-driven content. His recent endeavor as a screenwriter is YOU SHALL NOT KILL adapted from a novel by Uri Oren. The film is being co-produced by Thomas Schühly and Rony Yacov. Two previous feature-length documentaries – A Cantor’s Tale and The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground are about sacred music and klezmer music. They have screened at nearly two hundred international film festivals and have captured top festival prizes in Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Miami, San Diego and Washington, D.C. The films have received support from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Maurice Amado Foundation, the Karma Foundation, and the Nash Family Foundation, among others. His current documentary effort about Jewish culture and its transmission is Deli Man. Please visit: www.acantorstale.com; www.forloveandhonorfilm.com, www.klezdoc.com Rachel Ariel, originally from Israel, studied history, political science and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew College in Boston. Prior to coming to Duke, Rachel was one of the founders of the Lerner Jewish Community Day School in Durham, NC, where she served for ten years as the Director of Jewish Studies and taught Hebrew and Jewish Studies. In February 2006, Rachel became the Librarian for Jewish Studies at the Perkins Library, Duke University. Ya’akov Aronson worked in the Bar Ilan University Library system for 29 years, the last 18 of which he was University Librarian. His AJL activities have been: organizing committee, AJL Convention, Jerusalem, 1990; contributing editor to Judaica Librarianship responsible for the “Epistle from Israel” column; presenter at 6 previous AJL conventions; Israel coordinator for AJL who organized AJL sessions at a number of meetings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies and at the IFLA Conference in Jerusalem, 2000. He was the founder and first President of the Judaica Librarians’ Group (Israel). He was born in Waco, Texas and has lived in Israel for 41 years. Ari Babaknia M.D. is a Johns Hopkins trained physician who is currently the Chairman of the Medical Advisor Board of the Los Angeles Center for Women’s Health. In addition to his publications in the

medical field, his work includes a few books related to Judaism in Farsi. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Babaknia has dedicated his life and efforts in writing and editing an extensive four volume historical documentary account chronicling the different aspects of the Holocaust in Farsi. This work is the recipient of a 2013 AJL Judaica Reference Honorable Mention Award. Jackie Ben-Efraim has been the Special Collections Librarian at Ostrow Library, American Jewish University since 2007, overseeing the Lowy-Winkler Rare Book Center as well as maintaining AJU’s online photo archives. In addition, Jackie Ben-Efraim is currently Head of Cataloging. She is also in charge of collection preservation and repairs books in the circulating collection. The latest responsibility to be added to her position is to curate 90 linear feet of display cases in AJU’s recently remodeled library. Sharon Benamou is the Hebraica/Judaica and Music Catalog Librarian at UCLA. She received a BA in Music from the State University of New York at Binghamton, an MA in Musicology at UCLA and an MLIS from San Jose State University. She is active in both the Association of Jewish Libraries, serving as the Vice-President of RAS, and in the Music Library Association, serving on the Authorities Subcommittee of the Bibliographic Control Committee and the Integrated Library Systems Committee. She served on the Program for Cooperative Cataloging’s Task Force on Non-Latin Script Cataloging to create standards for input of vernacular scripts in catalog records. Shulamith (Shuli) Berger is the Curator of Special Collections at Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library. She is co-curator of the exhibits: "Einstein and Yeshiva University" and "Echoes of Auras: Memorbuch of a Jewish Community," both of which may be viewed on the Yeshiva University Libraries website. She speaks at AJL conventions and for Jewish groups on topics related to American Jewish immigrant history. Joan Biella holds an MLS and a Harvard PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. She has cataloged Hebrew and Arabic materials in Israel and in U.S. universities, and is now a cataloger of Hebraica, Judaica, Arabic, and lesser-known Semitic-language materials at the Library of Congress. She acts as LC liaison to the NACO Hebraica Funnel Project and the Heb-NACO listserv for Hebraica catalogers. She now serves as an RDA (Research Description and Access) trainer and reviewer for colleagues at LC and other libraries. Barbara Bietz is Past Chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee. Her chapter book, Like A Maccabee was a 2012 PJ Library selection. Barbara’s website, Barbarabbookblog.blogspot.com is dedicated to Jewish books for children and features interviews with authors and illustrators. Barbara’s non-fiction appears in numerous magazines. She contributes to the AJL Newsletter and Jewish Book World Magazine. Her monthly column appears in the award winning web site, FamiliesOnlineMagazine. She has been a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators since 1996. Barbara lives with her family in Oak Park, California. Shara Blackmore has worked for Jaywil Software Development Inc. for 12 years and through her experience with customers she has gained much insight into decisions that need to be made when considering software for libraries. Dan Bouhnik is a faculty member in the Information Science department in Bar Ilan University (BIU) and in the Computer Science department in the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) in Israel. He is the author of a number of books used for teaching Advanced Computer Sciences and his professional interests include virtual learning and its effect on the thinking process. Doug Campbell is Reference Coordinator at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. He is the subject liaison to UNT’s Mayborn School of Journalism and to the Department of History. His personal and research interests include the history of libraries and librarianship, and librarian biographies. He developed an interest in Jewish history and Holocaust studies while working on an additional master’s degree in humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). It was at UTD that Mr. Campbell discovered the significance of Jewish librarians in the history of U.S. public libraries.

Susan Dubin has been a school library educator since 1982. She has a specialization in Early Childhood education and is a former preschool director and teacher. Susan is a past president of the Association of Jewish Libraries, the School Synagogue, and Center division of AJL, and currently serves on the board of the Southern California Children’s Literature Council. For the past two years, she has been the chair of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Once Upon a World Awards Committee for Younger Readers. She now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she is the library consultant for the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center. Dede Fox Ducharme, a graduate of Washington University, has been a public school educator for 39 years, 22 as a reading teacher and 17 as an intermediate school librarian. She has also taught with Houston's Writers in the Schools Program, with her knowledge of children's literature considered one of her strongest assets. Dede has donated many hours to the development of her synagogue library and is grateful for that opportunity as well as the temple grant which allowed her to attend a Highlights Foundation workshop for Jewish writers. Debbie Feder is currently the Director of the LRC at Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago. She has her Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University. She has spent more than ten years introducing children and young adults to literature and information literacy at schools and public libraries. She is the author of Jelly Bean’s Art Museum Adventure and is honored to be a member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee. Susan Freiband is a retired library educator and current volunteer Temple librarian at Beth El Hebrew Congregation in Alexandria, Virginia. She has a BA (Biology), University of California,; MS in LS, Our Lady of the Lake University; and a PhD (Library Service), Rutgers University. She has experience as an academic librarian, consultant, synagogue librarian, and professor in a library school. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Susan’s interests include collection development, adult services, and comparative and international librarianship. Elliot H. Gertel has been the Irving M. Hermelin Curator of Judaica at the University of Michigan Graduate Library since 1999. He currently serves as AJL’s liaison to the American Library Association and chairs ALA’s Jewish Information Committee, a position he also held from 1997-1999. Previously, he has been the president and vice-president of AJL’s RAS Division and AJL Recording Secretary. Gertel originated joint AJL-ALA programs of which he coordinated and chaired seven such special sessions including "Gathering the Storm: Exploring Katrina’s Jewish Voices and the Significance of Oral History Collection” at ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans in June 2011 and last year’s panel, AJL and ALA Affiliates: The Big and Little Pictures,” at AJL Annual Conference in Pasadena, California on which he was also a presenter. Linda Glaser is an award-winning author with 27 published children’s books and two forthcoming. Her Jewish-themed books include Bridge to America, The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes, Mrs. Greenberg’s Messy Hanukkah, Emma’s Poem, The Voice of the Statue of Liberty, Hoppy Hanukah, Hoppy Passover, and her most recent, Hannah’s Way, the Sydney Taylor Award winner. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota. Please visit her website www.LindaGlaserAuthor.com Kay C. Goldman became interested in Jewish history as she began researching her family who arrived in Louisiana and Texas in the 1850s. Her PhD dissertation from Texas A&M focused on 19th century Texas Jewish businessmen and documented these Jews’ integration into Texas life. In 2010, she completed an annotated memoir of Rebecca Cohen Mayer (1837-1930) who traveled down the Santa Fe Trail in 1852. Her new book, Dressing Modern Maternity: The Frankfurt Sisters of Dallas and the Page Boy Label, is a business history based on the lives of the Frankfurt sisters and was published by Texas Tech University Press. Marina (Riny) Goldsmith is the head of the Foreign Language Cataloguing Department at the National Library of Israel. She is also the chair of the Israeli National Subcommittee on Cataloguing.

Charna Gross, a Los Angeles native, has been a teacher since 1975 and a school librarian since 2000. She is currently the school librarian at Sinai Akiba Academy. She has lived on three continents and speaks English, French and Spanish. Marilyn Hassid is the Assistant Executive Director at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center th of Houston. Now in her 30 year at the ERJCC, Marilyn is responsible for producing all of the ERJCC visual, literary, and performing arts programs for the entire Houston community. Marilyn holds a BA in Education from the University of Oklahoma and a MEd from the University of Houston, and has also served as the founding principal of a local Jewish secondary school. She has served on national planning projects through the Jewish Book Council, the Jewish Community Centers Association, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. In 1997, Marilyn was awarded The Hans Mayer Jewish Communal Professional Award given annually by The Jewish Federation of Greater Houston and the National Council of Jewish Women’s Hannah G. Solomon award for outstanding service to the community. In 2008, the ERJCC established the Marilyn Hassid Emerging Author Program at the Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair to recognize her 25 years of service. Tim Heiges has long been a highly active participant and advocate in the library industry and has been with EBSCO for the past 15 years. In addition to being a regular speaker at publisher and library conferences, he has served as guest lecturer for 14 years at a number of library schools including the University of Illinois and the University of Denver. He is also part of a formal library advisory council which includes Yale and other universities. Dina Herbert is the librarian for the Iraqi Jewish Archive project at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC. Before joining the IJA, she held positions at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library in New York and the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Library in Washington DC. Dina has a BA in Ancient Studies from Columbia University and both a BA and a MA in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She received her MLS from the University of Maryland. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband. David Hirsch has served as Librarian for Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies at the Charles Young Research Library, UCLA since 1989. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. A native of Philadelphia, PA, he received his BA Degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and holds MAs in Library Science and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago. He worked as a Near East Cataloger at Princeton University from 1986-1989. He has lived, traveled, studied, and worked throughout the Middle East, most recently as an advisor to the National Library of Abu Dhabi. David is a Past President of the AJL RAS Division, as well as a past program chair for RAS. He has also served as President of the Middle East Librarians Association. Fred Isaac holds an MLS and an MA in History. He has been synagogue librarian at Temple Sinai in Oakland, CA since 1995, and is now the synagogue’s Archivist and Historian. He has served on the AJL Board and Council, chaired the 2005 Convention in Oakland, and is currently Chair of the Awards committee. He has received AJL’s Fanny Goldstein Merit Award, and the President’s Award from the Popular Culture Association. In 2012, he was Jewish Learning Works’ Phantom Ball honoree. Rebecca Jefferson is the Head of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. Her responsibilities include collection development and overall management of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica in the George A. Smathers Libraries. Jefferson currently serves as the AJL Adult Reviews co-editor. Jefferson comes from the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. She was responsible for the Research Unit’s Bibliography Project and was editor of the biannual Genizah Fragments newsletter. She assisted with collection management and development, and managed and updated the inventory of the Cambridge Genizah manuscript collections. She received a PhD and MPhil in Medieval Hebrew from King’s College, University of Cambridge. Jefferson’s research focuses on the history of Genizah manuscript collections. She is currently editing a volume of letters and documents tentatively entitled “Collected Papers of the Scholars and Antiquarians who Discovered the Cairo Genizah” to be published by Brill.

Rachel Kamin is the Director of the Joseph and Mae Gray Cultural & Learning Center at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El (Highland Park, Illinois). Prior to that, she worked as the Director of the Libraries & Media Center at Temple Israel (West Bloomfield, Michigan). She has served as the chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee and is currently the Book Review Editor for Children & Teens for the AJL Newsletter. She has authored articles for BookLinks, Jewish Book World, and Judaica Librarianship and writes children’s book reviews for School Library Journal, Jewish Book World, and the AJL Newsletter. The Gray Cultural & Learning Center includes a collection of over 1,000 films on DVDs and VHS and hosts several film events each year. Susan Kaufman is the Manager of the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research/Houston Public Library and the President of the Texas State Genealogical Society (2012-2013) and has been a genealogy librarian for 25 years. Before moving to Texas in 2004, she was a librarian in the Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana. A speaker at local, state, and national conferences, she has held board positions at the Illinois State Genealogical Society, the Indiana Genealogical Society, the Federation of Genealogical Societies, and the Texas State Genealogical Society. James Lee Kessler, Rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel, Galveston, TX is a native Houstonian and University of Texas graduate. Rabbi Kessler received ordination from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1972 and has served Temple B'nai Israel in Galveston for 31 years. He earned the first doctorate in Texas Jewish History and an honorary doctorate from HUC-JIR. Rabbi Kessler has written four books and edited one. He is the founder and first president of the Texas Jewish Historical Society (now 30 years old with over 1,000 members), Jewish Editor of the Handbook of Texas, past chair of the Church Relations Advisory Board of the State of Texas, and is a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas. Joy Kingsolver is Senior Archivist at the Shel Silverstein Archives in Chicago, and consulting archivist to architect Walter H. Sobel. She has an MA in history and an MLS from Indiana University, and is a Certified Archivist. She has taught workshops on archival techniques and principles at previous AJL conventions and has presented papers on Fanny Goldstein. Arthur Kiron is the Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History in Penn’s History Department. In his role as Curator, he oversees public programs of education and outreach, such as exhibits, concerts, workshops, as well as national and international partnerships to digitize significant collections of Judaica. Arthur is the Director of the Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project, an international initiative based at Penn, which seeks to locate, scan, catalog, and provide dynamic online access to early American Jewish historical documents, including the personal papers and publications of Isaac Leeser. Marina Korenberg works as a Senior Library Technician in the Israel and Judaica Section of the Library of Congress. Ms. Korenberg has over twenty years experience in the field of Judaica/Hebraica librarianship, having worked previously at academic libraries at the University of Haifa, the University of Toronto, Ohio State University, and Johns Hopkins University. Her current responsibilities include both cataloging and acquisitions functions for Hebraic, Cyrillic, and Latin script materials, and she also specializes in working with audio-visual materials and other non-book formats. Ms. Korenberg is the CoPresident of the Capital Area Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL/CAC). Aaron Kuperman is currently a cataloger for the Law Cataloging section at Library of Congress, doing law cataloging and classification in English, Romance languages, Hebrew, and occasionally Yiddish. He is responsible for all Hebrew script legal materials (classed by LC in class K), including but not limited to Israeli or Jewish law. He has a Masters degree from the late Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, a JD from Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law, a BS in Journalism from Northwestern University, and studied for several years at Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim in Jerusalem. He has been a member of AJL since library school and is active in the American Association of Law Libraries where he serves on their cataloging committee and chairs the Technical Services Professional Development committee.

Rachel Leket-Mor is the Jewish Studies librarian at Arizona State University. She is Editor of Judaica Librarianship and past RAS President (2010-2012). Her past presentations at AJL focused on Collection Development (The Israeli Popular Literature Collection at ASU; Haredi Films), Bibliography and Publishing History (Hebrew Publishing in America), and Organizational Studies (the AJL Member Survey and its Implications, with Joyce Levine). Dr. David B Levy received an MLS in 1994 from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a PHD in Jewish Studies in 2000 with concentrations in Biblical studies, Jewish Philosophy, and Rabbinics. David also studied at a host of universities and colleges, including Haverford College, Middlebury College (Language School), Harvard, University of Pennsylvania (Lehman workshop), and Johns Hopkins. David has experience working as a librarian in public, academic, JCC, synagogue, yeshivot (Ner Israel) and Jewish Archives, as well as experience teaching philosophy, ethics, and Jewish studies at various colleges. A selection of David's publications can be found at: http://facpubs.tourolib.org/publications/faculty/levy-david-b. Aimee Lurie is the librarian at the Agnon School, a community day school in Beachwood, Ohio. She started her library career as a young adult librarian at the Cuyahoga County and Akron-Summit County library systems and has worked at synagogue libraries in northeast Ohio. As an active member of the local chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries for nearly 10 years, she has served as membership chair and often speaks about Jewish children's books to the local community. She has reviewed books for VOYA and the AJL Newsletter. Aimee has been a member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee since 2011 and is the current Chair. Aimee lives in Orange, Ohio with her husband and young sons. Jenny Meyerhoff is the author of the children’s book Sami’s Sleepaway Summer, a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a PJ library selection, and the young adult novel Queen of Secrets, a Sydney Taylor Notable book which Kirkus called “a book loosely and skillfully based on The Book of Esther,” as well as several other books for children. She is also a former public school teacher and currently teaches Sunday School in the 7th grade program at her synagogue, Congregation BJBE in Deerfield, IL. Jenny believes passionately, as an author and an educator, in the power of books to teach, inspire and connect our youth to their heritage. Josh Parshall is the oral historian at the Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL), where he has worked since 2009. He holds a bachelor’s degree in American studies from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His academic interests include dynamics of personal narrative and group identity, Jewish culture in the United States and Canada, secular Yiddish and progressive politics, and Jewish life in the American South. Josh lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with his wife Alli and their two cats. In August 2013 he will enter the PhD program in American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nancy Poole is an interdisciplinary doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Nancy’s area of research is organization identity of schools of library science from 1980-2005. As well, she is interested in education informatics, special collections librarianship and 14th and 15th century illuminated manuscripts. In addition to her studies at UNCG, Nancy has also studied codicology and paleography at The Rare Book School at University of Virginia, and the medieval manuscripts seminars sponsored by faculty from the University of South Carolina. In her former life, she held an MBA and taught management and strategic planning at two universities and one private college. Doreen Rappaport is an award-winning children’s book author. Her books have received critical acclaim and awards for her unique ability to combine historical facts with intimate storytelling, and for finding ‘new ways to present the lives of well-known heroes‚’ like Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller and the Statue of Liberty. She speaks frequently at educational conferences, universities, libraries, synagogues, and schools. She has been a featured author at the National Portrait Gallery, National Book Festival, and the White House. She lives in Copake Falls, New York.

Joyce Rappaport is the executive editor of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, a tenvolume comprehensive, chronologically arranged anthology series, published by Yale University Press, that will highlight the major works of Jewish cultures around the world. She has served as copy chief of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jewish Culture and Civilization. Diane Levin Rauchwerger is librarian for Congregation Beth Am, Los Altos Hills, California and has worked as a children's librarian for the Sunnyvale Public Library, Sunnyvale, California. She is the author of a series of children's picture books published by Kar-Ben Publishing, including her newest book, Dinosaur Goes to Israel. She has reviewed for Jewish Book World and has completed one year on the Sydney Taylor Award Committee. Rita Saccal has been the Head Librarian of the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano “Marshall T. Meyer”, Buenos Aires, Argentina as of 1997. She belongs to the Editing committee of MajShavot, the Academic Journal of the Seminario. She joined AJL in 1995 and attended all the conventions since then. She has also been President of the RAS division of the Association of Jewish Libraries. Rita belongs to the Red Latinoamericana de Información Teológica (The Latin American Network of Theological Information), representing not only the Seminario, but the Association of Jewish Libraries as well. She has volunteered and volunteers for several Jewish Institutions in Argentina. Before joining the Jewish Librarianship world, she was the Reference Director at the Centro de Información de las Naciones Unidas en Buenos Aires (U.N. Information Center). Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel is a Yiddish singer, songwriter, actor, and researcher of Yiddish culture. She has performed, lectured and taught throughout North America, Poland and Australia. She is an original member of the Folksbiene Troupe (National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene). Her research project “The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater” received the 2011-2012 Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. She is a librarian in the Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library, and co-author of Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage. Gail Shirazi is a librarian in the Israel/Judaica Section of the Library of Congress, where she has worked for 36 years. She specializes in Israeli acquisitions in all formats and languages. She holds an MLS from Catholic University, an MA from Syracuse University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Maryland. She enjoys arranging lectures and programs in cooperation with embassies, academic organizations, and other libraries. Lisa Silverman is the director of the Sinai Temple Blumenthal Library in Los Angeles. She is now SSC President of AJL, and has been a board member of the AJL of Southern California for many years. She leads classes and book groups, along with organizing community programs on literature. She was the children’s editor of Jewish Book World Magazine for 5 years and is now the children’s literature reviewer for the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. For the last 6 years, she has run a popular “Mid-Day at the Movies” monthly film program at Sinai Temple. Sheryl Stahl is the Senior Associate Librarian, The Frances-Henry Library, at Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion, Jack Skirball Los Angeles Campus. She has served as AJL treasurer for 4 years and is currently serving as Vice President of Membership. At the Frances-Henry Library, she catalogs, does reference, bibliographic instruction, serves as library webmaster, and clears jams in the copy machine. Bryan Edward Stone is an Associate Professor of History at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His first book, The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas, was published in 2010 by the University of Texas Press and won the Southern Jewish Historical Society’s 2011 Book Prize. He is currently editing the memoir of Alexander Gurwitz, a Russian-Jewish immigrant to San Antonio, and is conducting research for a book on the impact of hurricanes on American culture.

Aaron Taub is the Head of the Israel and Judaica Section of the Library of Congress. Under the name Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, he is the author of three books of poetry, Uncle Feygele (Plain View Press, 2011), What Stillness Illuminated/Vos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn (Parlor Press, 2008; Free Verse Editions series), and The Insatiable Psalm (Wind River Press, 2005). One of his poems and an interview of him conducted by Daniel Scheide appeared in the September/October 2012 issue of the Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews. Please visit his web site at www.yataub.net. Galina Teverovsky, an employee of the Library of Congress since 2002, is a Senior Library Technician in the Israel and Judaica Section. She performs cataloging and acquisition duties and works closely with the Acquisition Fiscal Support Office as well. Prior to working at the Library of Congress, Ms. Teverovsky served as a Library Assistant and Teacher's Assistant at the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington. She has resided in Silver Spring, MD since her emigration in 1993 from the former Soviet Union. Ms. Teverovsky is the Co-President of the Capital Area Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL/CAC). James Weinberger has a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley where he also served as Islamica Librarian from 1979 to 1983. He has served as Curator of Near East Collections in Princeton University Library from 1983. Dr. Yaffa Weisman is the VP/President Elect of AJL, leading the Strategic Planning process of the Association. She is the Library Director of the Frances-Henry Library of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, teaching at the University of Southern California. Yaffa received her B.A. in Theatre from Tel-Aviv University, her MLIS from UCLA, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from USC. Tina Weiss serves as Senior Associate Librarian at the Klau Library at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. She has studied at Queens College and Yeshiva University. Debra Winegarten has a Master’s in Sociology from The Ohio State University. A native Dallasite, she writes biographies of Texas women and narrative poetry. An eclectic kind of gal, she works at The University of Texas at Austin for the American Astronomical Society and also teaches sociology for South University. Her book, There’s Jews in Texas? won the 2011 national competition by Poetica Publishing, Inc. and Debra has spent all of 2012 traveling and promoting her book, using it as a tool to talk about the experience of being “other,” prejudice and discrimination, and anti-Semitism. She has used the experience to collect others’ stories on the subject. In December 2012, she was awarded a contract from The University of Texas Press for a middle-school biography on Oveta Culp Hobby. Jennifer Shafer Wyatt embarked on a new career in the school library after teaching speech, theatre arts, and English. Always interested in technology as a teacher, increasing the use of technology in the school library is her ultimate goal. Jennifer works with school librarians and teachers to help improve their library programs and better engage today's students. She has authored three books on using technology in the library. Her passion for education technology makes her excited to share her enthusiasm with whatever audiences are willing to listen.

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Texas Jewish Historical Society www.txjhs.org Texas Jewish Historical Society's mission is to collect and preserve the contributions and lives of Jews throughout the state of Texas in all towns and cities and to publish a Jewish Burial book of all Jews buried in the state. The TJHS archive is located in Austin, Texas at the Briscoe Center of American History, University of Texas. Z Productions FORCED JOURNEY: THE SAGA OF WERNER BERLINGER is a new book about a 12-year-old Jewish boy who flees Nazi-held Germany and comes to NYC hoping his family can follow. The awardwinning author Rosemary Zibart will be signing books and discussing the research that went into the 1,400 unaccompanied minors who arrived on their own in this country. The new book was immediately accepted for sale at the National Holocaust Museum bookshop and is already being used in middle school curriculum.

Howdy from Houston Street! Best wishes for the 2013 AJL Conference in Houston

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The Jewish Library Network of Metropolitan Chicago congratulates Houston on hosting the 48th AJL convention.

Temple Beth El of Charlotte, NC wishes a Mazel Tov to

Amalia Warshenbrot

for winning the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award for her contributions and loyalty to the Association of Jewish Libraries and the profession of Jewish librarianship.

Todah Robah and Yasher Koach to the Local & National Conference Committee For a fabulous 48th Annual AJL Conference! Special thanks to Judy Weidman, conference chair

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