49th Annual AJL Conference

Association of Jewish Libraries 49th Annual Conference June 22-25, 2014 Las Vegas, NV

FLOOR PLAN OF MEETING SPACE

2nd Floor

Palo Verde A

Acacia C/D

Acacia A/B

Palo Verde B Stairs to 1st floor

1st Floor

Mesquite 2

2nd Floor Conference Office

Mesquite 4 Registration/Loft

Causarina

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Letters………………………………………………………………………………...2 Conference Committee………………………………………………………….....5 Standing Ovations……………………………………………………………….....6 AJL Information……………………………………………………………………..7 AJL Award Winners………………………………………………………………..11 Restaurants…………………………………………………………………………14 Schedule Grid……………………………………………………………………....15 Program Descriptions……………………………………………………………...21 Speaker Biographies………………………………………………………………36 Exhibitors…………………………………………………………………………....44 Advertisements……………………………………………………………………..46 The Groner-Wikler Scholarship…………………………………………………..55

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AJL President Heidi Estrin

Program Book Elana Gensler

Las Vegas Conference Chair Susan Dubin

Programming Daniel Scheide Amaila Warshenbrot

Conference Advisors Jim Rosenbloom Toby Harris

Publicity Danielle Winter

Advertising and Exhibits Jacqueline Ben Efraim

Registration Marsha Lustigman

Audio-Visual Chaim Butterfield

Scholarships and Stipends Lenore Bell Rachel Glasser

Catering Susan Rosner Finance Debbie Stern

Shabbat Home Hospitality Chabad of Las Vegas Tours Concierge

Fundraising Susan Dubin Debbie Feder

Volunteer Coordination Esther Finder

Hospitality Room Chaim Butterfield

Welcome Bags Doug Unger

Minyan Coordinators Marga Hirsch

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We are grateful to the following individuals and institutions for their generous support of AJL’s 49th Annual Conference

Donors and Sponsors EBSCO Groner-Wikler Scholarship Fund The Lucius N. Littauer Foundaton Greta Silver Jo Marshall Eric Chaim Kline Koren Meeting Your Needs OPALS/Mediaflex SCELC Dan Wyman Doug Unger ‌And all the members and colleagues of AJL who volunteered their time to speak

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

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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)

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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.

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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 conferences 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.

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Board President: Past President VP/President Elect VP Membership VP Development Treasurer Secretary: RAS President RAS Vice President: SSC President SSC Vice President:

Yaffa Weisman Heidi Rabinowitz Estrin Amalia Warshenbrot Sheryl Stahl James Rosenbloom Deborah Stern Marga Hirsch Sharon Benamou Rebecca Jefferson Aimee Lurie Chaya Wiesman

Council AJL News and Reviews At Large Hasafran Judaica Librarianship Librarianship & Education Local Conference Chair (current) Local Conference Chair (2015) Member Relations National Conference Chair Public Relations Publications Web

Uri Kolodney Michelle Chesner & Fred Isaac Yossi Galron Rachel Leket-Mor Haim Gottschalk Suzi Dubin Aaron Taub & Dina Herbert Danielle Lewis Shoshanah Seidman Danielle Winter Joyce Levine Nancy Sack

Reporting to Council (non-voting) Accreditation Advertising ALA Liaison ATLA Liaison Bibliography Bank Cataloging Conference Proceedings Conference Stipends Fanny Goldstein Lifetime Membership International Liaison RAS Secretary Scholarship SSC Secretary Sydney Taylor Book Award Sydney Taylor Manuscript

Rachail Kurtz Jackie BenEfraim Elliot H. Gertel Rachel Leket-Mor Francine Menken Heidi Lerner Jasmin Nof Lenore Bell

Rita Sacal Dina Herbert Debbie Feder Diane Rauchwerger Aileen Grosberg

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THE 2014 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARDS Sponsored by Jo Taylor Marshall The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers The Longest Night: A Passover Story by Laurel Snyder with illustrations by Catia Chien The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers The Blessing Cup by Patricia Polacco The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Teen Readers The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Sydney Taylor Honor Books for Younger Readers Stones for Grandpa by Renee Londner with illustrations by Martha Avilés Rifka Takes a Bow by Betty Rosenberg Perlov with illustrations by Cosei Kawa Sydney Taylor Honor Books for Older Readers The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler’s List

by Leon Leyson with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leyson Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948 by Carol Matas Sydney Taylor Honor Books for Teen Readers Dancing in the Dark by Robyn Bavati The War Within These Walls by Aline Sax with illustrations by Caryl Strzelecki translated by Laura Watkinson

2014 GRONER-WIKLER SCHOLARSHIP FOR AJL CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE Barbara Krasner

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2013 JUDAICA REFERENCE AWARD Sponsored by Greta Silver Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner’s Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary

2013 JUDAICA BIBLIOGRAPHY AWARD sponsored by Eric Chaim Kline Mosheh Peli’s Mi- it e ha- itim : itonut ha-ha alah me-1820 ad 1845

LIFE MEMBERSHIP AWARD Heidi Lerner

AJL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Marci Bayer Ilya Slavutskiy

LIBRARY ACCREDITATION Basic Accreditation Congregation Beth El Library, Congregation Beth El, Bangor, Maine Riva Berleant Temple Rodef Shalom Library, Temple Rodef Shalom, Falls Church, Virginia Susan Kusel Haber House, Senior Center Library, Brooklyn, New York Elona Litvintchouk Temple Israel Library, Temple Israel, Akron, Ohio Allison Marks Harry and Bella M. Richter Memorial Library, Israel Center of Conservative Judaism, Flushing, New York Arlene Ratzabi Beldon Library of the Campus for the San Antonio Jewish Community, San Antonio, Texas Lynn Waghalter

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Basic Accreditation - Renewal Sophie & Arthur Brody Library, Congregation Beth Israel, San Diego, California Anna Newton Krupp Library, Gann Academy, Waltham, Mass.

Stacy Schwartz Goldie & Joe Tills Library, Congregation Agudas Achim, San Antonio, Texas Lynn Waghalter

Advanced Accreditation Blumberg Zalis Family Library, B'nai Israel Congregation, Rockville, Maryland Jill Gendelman Joseph and Mae Gray Cultural & Learning Center, North Suburban Beth El, Highland Park, Illinois Rachel Kamin Shalom School, Sacramento, California Ben Pastcan

Advanced Accreditation - Renewal Goldstein Media Center, The Epstein School, Sandy Springs, Georgia Michelle Epstein Idelson Adult Library, Temple Beth Shalom, Sarasota, Florida Debby Marshall Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Community Learning Center, Congregation Beth Israel, West Hartford, Connecticut Danielle Stordy

Accreditation Committee Leah Moskovits, Chair Jolie Baron, Rachail Kurtz, Arlene Ratzabi, Cara Sagal, Judy Weidman

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Sunday, June 22 9 am – 6 pm 10 am– 12 pm 12 pm-3 pm 3 pm- 4 pm 3pm 6:30pm 4 pm 5pm 4pm - 5 pm 5 pm5:30pm 5:30pm6:30 pm 6:15pm6:45 pm 6:45pm8 pm 8:15pm9:15 pm 9:30pm10:30pm

REGISTRATION

Loft

Open House at the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center Board Meeting

Palo Verde A

RECEPTION to Open Exhibits and honor Judaic Librarianship EXHIBITS OPEN Book Repair in a Digital World So You Want to Get Published New Attendees Meeting

Loft

Acacia A/B Palo Verde B Mesquite 2 Causarina

TED Talks

Causarina

Egalitarian Minyan Orthodox Minyan DINNER

Palo Verde B Palo Verde A Acacia ABCD

Day School Roundtable Palo Verde A

Synagogues & Centers Roundtable Palo Verde B Committee Meetings

Ordering/Collection Development Mesquite 2

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Monday, June 23 7-7:45 am 7-8:30 am 7:308:30 am 8 am5 pm 8:30am9:30 am 9:3010:15 Rooms 10:3012 pm

Egalitarian Minyan

1:151:45 pm 1:452:30 pm

Orthodox Minyan

BREAKFAST

REGISTRATION EXHIBIT ONLY TIME (Exhibit Hall open all day) Bringing Research to Life – Common Core Standards 1A Mesquite 2 Peron and the Jews

1B Palo Verde A Building a Judaic Collection in a Public Library

Palo Verde A Acacia ABCD

OPALS User Group

Convivencia: Jews in the Golden Age of Spain

12-1 pm

Palo Verde B

1C Palo Verde B National Library of Israel: Update 2014

Where Do We Go From Here?: Roundtable Discussion about the Future of Judaic Librarianship Lunch Installation of New Board

Mesquite 4 Loft Acacia AB Causarina 1D Mesquite 4 Order in the Core: Using Common Core as Library Curriculum Israeli Literature in the Early 21st Century: A Short Bibliography

Acacia ABCD

SSC Division Meeting RAS Division Meeting Palo Verde A Palo Verde B General Membership Meeting Causarina

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Monday, June 23 2:30-4 pm

2A Mesquite 2 A Modern Hebrew Literature BioBibliographic Lexicon

2B Palo Verde B Women of Valor: Female Resistance to the Nazis

The Forgery of the Talmud Yerushalmi Seder Kodashim: How Were So Many Fooled?

Surviving the Holocaust in the Soviet Union

The Structures of Printed Concordances to the Hebrew Bible Rooms 3A Mesquite 4 4:15A Place in Space: 5:45 Honoring Our pm Ancestral Communities Online Jewish Refugees in Shanghai: Curating Personal Artifacts 5:456:15 pm 6:156:45 pm 6:157:15 pm 7:159:30 pm 9:3010:30

2C Causarina Behind the Scenes of the Sydney Taylor Awards

The North African Jewish Manuscript Collectioi at the Yale University Library

The Stones Weep: Teaching the Holocaust through Art 3B Palo Verde A Strategic Plan

3C Causarina Sydney Taylor: Part 2

2 Jews & 3 Opinions: Wht Do YOU Want from AJL?

Exhibit Only Time Meet the RAS Award Winner, Harry Bochner Egalitarian Minyan

Palo Verde B

2D Palo Verde B Accessing the Iraqi Jewish Archive

Orthodox Minyan

RECEPTION

AWARDS BANQUET

3D Palo Verde B Library of Congress Update

Acacia AB Causarina Palo Verde A

Loft

Acacia ABCD

Committee Meetings

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Tuesday, June 24 7 am8 am 77:45 am 8-9:30 am 9:3010:30 am 10:40 am 11 am1 pm 11 am4 pm Rooms 11 am12:30 pm

12:301:30 pm 12:301:30 pm 1:302:30 pm

REGISTRATION Egalitarian Minyan

Palo Verde B Orthodox Minyan

Loft Palo Verde A

BREAKFAST RECEPTION UNLV Tour at UNLV Lied Library First Bus leaves from front of hotel at 7:30 am Between Being Wise and Not-Knowing-What-to-Ask: Jewish Librarianship and Digital Humanities Bus back to hotel REGISTRATION

Loft

Exhibit Hall Open 4A Mesquite 2 All-of-a-Kind Family, Not Anymore/High Holidays and Beyond

4B Palo Verde B The Old Jewish Library in Mainz Contemporary World Jewish Publications – Collection Assessment/Collection Building: The Case of the Harvard Judaica Collection

4C Causarina Roundtable on Digital Humanities

Acacia AB 4D Palo Verde A Peek into Programming What are We Reading?: The Latest and Greatest in Jewish Adult Fiction

Ideas for Supporting Jewish Studies Research: Palo Verde B An Interactive Session with EBSCO’s Executive Vice President Exhibit Time Acacia AB AWARDS LUNCH Acacia ABCD Presentation of Life Membership, Scholarships, Wikler-Groner Awards

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Tuesday, June 23 Rooms 2:303:45 pm

5A Mesquite 2 An All School Read Using the Valuesfinder

5B Palo Verde A The Koren Talmud The World of Jewish Cookbooks: Sliced two ways

5C Mesquite 4 Digital Citizenship in the Jewish School Library

5D Palo Verde B OCLC

Educating Students to be Responsible Digital Citizens

Rooms 4-5:30 pm

6A Mesquite 2

6B Mesquite 4

Building the Strategic Plan Credible World: The Importance How to Get Attention of History in aka Library Jewish Advocacy Children’s Books

6C Palo Verde B

6D Palo Verde A

RAS Cataloging

Halakha and Netiquette BDS & Bias in Academia: What Can Librarians Do?

Website 613: Creative Ways to Provide Your Patrons with Jewish Resources 5:30TED TALKS 6:30 pm 6:30-7 Roundtable discussions of TED Talks pm 6:30-7 Egalitarian Minyan Palo Verde B Orthodox Minyan pm 7 pm CLOSING OF CONFERENCE

Causarina Causarina Palo Verde A

Causarina

Free night: visit the Strip, see a show, ride the new Las Vegas “High Rollers,” etc.

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Wednesday, June 24 9 am-3 pm 9 am-1 pm

Council Meeting Writer’s Workshop (additional fee) See the Concierge for local visits to Las Vegas attractions

‫להתראות‬

TRAVEL SAFELY

NEXT YEAR IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 22 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Registration

Loft

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Open House at the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center (optional)

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

Board Meeting

3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Reception Loft Honors the publication of Judaica Librarianship with special guest Bella Hass Weinberg.

3:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Exhibits open until Dinner

Palo Verde A

Acacia A/B

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

Book Repair in a Digital World Palo Verde B Jackie BenEfraim Today, most people think that if a book is damaged, it’s time to throw it out as everything is online. Most librarians treat damaged books by slapping tape on them. Over time, these repairs end up doing more harm than good as the tape oozes onto unintended surfaces and is nearly impossible to remove. The tape also puts undue pressure at the point of repair, causing other parts of the book to begin to fall apart from the stress. During this session, Jackie will teach participants how to make wheat starch paste to use with Japanese paper to mend and hinge-in pages, as well as how to tighten spines of books. These repairs conform to modern conservation practices as being both durable and reversible. Due to time constraints, participants will not be taught how to completely rebind a book, which often is not cost effective and should only be done on non-valuable books that are not replaceable in either digital or book formats. This class would be of interest to both SSC and RAS librarians.

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

So You Want to Get Published: Mesquite 2 Some Dos and Don’ts in Scholarly Publishing Rachel Leket-Mor In this workshop, the presenter will guide participants through the process of writing and submitting scholarly articles to peer-reviewed journals. Organization strategies and writing tips will be shared, along with information about the peer review process from both the author and reviewer perspectives. The presenter will also demonstrate the online submission system of Judaica Librarianship and discuss the expectations of its editorial board. The workshop is designed for members of all AJL divisions.

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

New Attendees meeting Causarina Moderator: Debbie Feder First time attendees can meet the Board and Council and learn what not to miss.

5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

TED Talks Causarina Las Vegas Jewish History and the Mob Elliot Karp Elliot Karp, director of the Las Vegas Jewish Federation, will share information about the current Jewish community and its history.

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SUNDAY/MONDAY A Poetry Reading M.E. Silverman M. E. Silverman will read from The Breath Before Birds Fly (ELJ Press) which focuses on family and the rituals of personal history, recognizing the longing of those who “stand savage with all one has.� Many of his poems focus on two characters, a modern day Noah, and Zeblon, the last Jew in Afghanistan who still resides there today. He will also be reading from his selection in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, which features works of over 100 contemporary poets born after World War Two. Sephardic Genealogy: An Overview Schelly Talalay Dardashti Jewish genealogy's "other side," Sephardic research focuses on families originating in Spain and Portugal, but whom today live globally. In the past few years, resources have grown exponentially with many new books, websites, and databases. Topics include geography, customs, traditions, history, languages, documents, basic online and archival resources, new books and journals and new projects and conferences.

6:15 p.m.-6:45 p.m.

Egalitarian Minyan Orthodox Minyan

Palo Verde B Palo Verde A

6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Dinner

Acacia ABCD

8:15 p.m.-9:15 p.m.

Roundtables Day Schools Palo Verde A Moderator: Stacy Schwartz Synagogues and Centers Palo Verde B Moderator: Rachel Kamin Ordering/Collection Development Mesquite 2B Moderator: Susan Kusel

9:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.

Committee Meetings

MONDAY, JUNE 23 7:00 a.m.-7:45 a.m.

Egalitarian Minyan Orthodox Minyan

Palo Verde B Palo Verde A

7:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

Acacia ABCD

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

OPALS User Group Moderator: Chaya Weisman

Mesquite 4

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

Registration

Loft

8:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.

Exhibit Only Time Exhibit Hall open all day

Acacia AB

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MONDAY 9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

Causarina

Bringing Research to Life: The Crucial Role of Librarians in Meeting – and Exceeding - the Common Core Standards Lisa Hansel Moderated by: Bruchie Weinstein The Common Core State Standards in English language arts and literacy present a great challenge for students and teachers. Librarians are crucial allies, uniquely able to take three essential steps. First, they can help disseminate the research on reading comprehension underlying the standards. This body of research, which will be fully explained in the presentation, boils down to this: reading comprehension depends chiefly on prior knowledge.

Second, librarians can assist teachers in finding appropriate fictional and informational texts.

Librarians can create sets of texts on a great variety of topics, and they can both share their text sets with teachers and create topic-focused reading areas throughout the youth sections of their libraries. University librarians will see this trend carried through on the college level with much more emphasis on broad reading in specific topics. Third, librarians can directly increase children’s knowledge, and love of books, by frequently reading aloud. Even after children can read - even up to, on average, 13 years old - children’s listening comprehension is greater than their reading comprehension. So, please schedule as many read-alouds as you can - even better, develop a series of read-alouds on a single topic.

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Session 1

Session 1A Mesquite 2 Moderated by Elliot H. Gertel Peron and the Jews Rita Saccal Juan Domingo Perón appears in the Argentine history during the Década infame (infamous decade, 1930-1943), when the ultranationalists took power. There was an important German influence on the Argentine military which assured a pro-Nazi and fascist sentiment spreading totalitarian ideas among the army and creating an anti-American and anti-British sentiment. How did this affect the Jewish Community?

Convivencia: Jews in the Golden Age of Spain Laurel Corona From the 8th through the 15th centuries, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together on the Iberian Peninsula, creating a dynamic culture with artistic, technological, intellectual, and scientific achievements unparalleled elsewhere in Europe. Was this peaceful coexistence real or superficial, or perhaps a fantasy created by a modern world eager for such coexistence ourselves? What do these centuries of living together have to tell us about our chances for “convivencia” (living together) today? Laurel Corona, professor of humanities at San Diego City College, will discuss the history and lives of the Jews during the Convivencia, as chronicled in her book The Mapma er’s Daughter, and offer insight as to how we should interpret this history in the present.

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MONDAY Session 1B Palo Verde A Building a Judaic Collection in a Public Library Carla Trounson The Shia Szrut Holocaust Memorial Collection gives agency to lost voices. The collection encourages the general public to ponder the “when, why and how” questions of the Holocaust, genocide, and intolerance. Our Washoe County Library Statement of Values encourages inclusiveness to the idea that we are all part of the human family. The library provides a commons, a place for our community to gather together, exchange ideas, and use the resources of the Holocaust Collection without cost. The purpose is to educate and remind a broad spectrum of people that they have choices: to become a perpetrator, or bystander, or rescuer. These are some of the advantages of managing a special collection, but there are also challenges, some of which include financial restraints and insufficient time to devote to the collection. What makes it work is the desire among parents and children, teachers and librarians, and all the private organizations and state agencies, to bring out the best in us all, knowing our worst. The profound challenge is ‘Never Again’.

Where Do We Go From Here? A Roundtable Discussion about the Future of Judaic Librarianship Etta Gold With many schools and synagogues closing their libraries or severely cutting back on hours and services, this session will seek to explore new ideas for keeping the idea of a Judaic library collection viable in today’s (and tomorrow’s) world.

Session 1C Palo Verde B Moderated by Rebecca Jefferson National Library of Israel: Update 2014 Elhanan Adler and Marina Goldsmith In the past year, the National Library of Israel (NLI) has advanced on many fronts towards its goal of transforming itself from a Judaica research-centered academic library to a broadspectrum institution serving all sectors of Israeli society and the Jewish people. The Library has initiated a number of projects to enrich its bibliographic and authority data from outside sources, as well as to allow other institutions to link to the library's own data and to add to the library's authority file. As part of this initiative, the NLI plans to take over responsibility for the management of the Israeli National Union List (ULI) and upgrade it. The Library also has led the national implementation of the new RDA cataloging rules. The Library's digitization programs continue to expand with a wide range of projects. The Library sponsors and hosts a wide variety of cultural and educational activities open to the public. This session will present these and additional ongoing and planned projects.

Session 1D Mesquite 4 Moderated by Bruchie Weinstein Order in the Core: Using Common Core as Library Curriculum Ben Pastcan and Robin Gluck The evidence of the Common Core is right before us. Librarians, like Robin Gluck and Ben Pastcan, are implementing the Common Core in conjunction with state school library standards.

How? With the assistance of the book Inquiry and the Common Core: Librarians and Teachers Designing Teaching for Learning edited by Violet H. Harada and Sharon Coatney. There are three techniques to exercise the state library standards and the Common Core that Ben uses in lessons: Inquiry, Reading, and Complexity of Text. The topics will be shown through three examples from the lessons Ben teaches: different writing styles (4th grade), monitoring of the

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MONDAY Internet (5th grade), and the impacts of social networking online (6th grade). Robin will be presenting examples of successful collaborations with middle school faculty that are aligned with common core standards for research.

Israeli Literature in the Early 21st Century - A Short Bibliography Michlean Amir The purpose of this presentation is to provide a bibliography of some of the books written by well-known and highly respected Israeli authors which were published in English in the first dozen years of the 21st Century. Literature is often a great mirror of a society and these books can be used by book discussion groups, as well as for informative, pleasure reading.

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

Lunch Installation of New Board

1:15 p.m.-1:45 p.m.

Division Meetings: SSC Meeting Accreditation Awards RAS Meeting

1:45 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

General Membership Meeting

Acacia ABCD

Palo Verde A Palo Verde B Causarina

2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Session 2 Session 2A

Mesquite 2

The Forgery of the Talmud Yerushalmi Seder Kodashim: How Were So Many Fooled?

Yoram Bitton The history of the Jewish book includes numerous forgeries and false authorships. In this presentation, Yoram will focus on a specific event that demonstrates how scholars and rabbis can be easily fooled by forgeries. In the early 20th century, an unknown scholar, Shlomo Freidlander, presented a Seder Kodashim from the Talmud Yerushalmi which was thought not to exist. Many were eager to accept this new addition to the canon of Jewish sacred texts.

Yoram will present documents and other evidence showing how Friedlander built the case of its acceptance and try to understand how the leading scholars of the time were convinced.

A Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographic Lexicon Yossi Galron After almost ten years building, updating, adding and expanding the Hebrew literature database, The Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature, Yossi will describe the history of the project, its challenges, and its future.

Structures of Printed Concordances to the Hebrew Bible Bella Hass Weinberg Dr. Weinberg will give a paper on how concordances are structured.

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MONDAY Session 2B Palo Verde A Moderated by Michelle Epstein Women of Valor: Female Resistance to the Nazis Joanne Gilbert As a little girl growing up in a post-World War II Jewish suburb of Detroit, Michigan, Joanne Gilbert was profoundly influenced by her grandmother’s vivid stories of the beloved family members and friends who were so brutally murdered in Vilna, Lithuania during the Holocaust.

She was particularly troubled by the images of Jews going to their deaths “like sheep going to the slaughter,” and wondered if any of them fought for their lives. She was also curious about their Gentile friends and neighbors - did any of them try to help the Jews? And as a BabyBoomer growing up at the beginning of the Women’s Movement, she was particularly interested in finding out about the role of women during the darkest time in human history. Her research has taken her all over the U.S., Canada, and Europe researching Jewish and Gentile women who were anti-Nazi Resisters and Partisans during World War II. According to Joanne, “the unsung stories of these amazing 90+ year-old women, from different countries and different walks of life, who still lead lives committed to human rights - provide testimony to not just to the strength of the female body and soul, but to the finest qualities of humanity - qualities that transcend age, ethnicity, religion and socio-economic status.”

Surviving the Holocaust in the Soviet Union Miriam Brysk Dr. Brysk will describe her family's life in the Lida Ghetto in Belarus and how they narrowly escaped death by an Einsatzgruppe because the Germans needed her father, a surgeon, to operate on wounded German soldiers. In late 1942, when she was nearly 8, Jewish Partisans rescued her family from the ghetto and brought them to the Lipiczany forest where she became a Partisan. In order to protect her from rape by Russian partisans, she was dressed like a boy and given a gun of her own. After liberation, to escape the Soviet authorities' travel bans, she escaped to Poland and started her trek through Central Europe as homeless refugees until her arrival in America. After retirement, Miriam became a noted artist. Her memoir, Amidst the Shadows of Trees, was published by Gihon River Press in 2013.

The Stones Weep: Teaching the Holocaust through Art Miriam Brysk and Margaret Lincoln Miriam Brysk, a Holocaust survivor, author, and artist, and Margaret Lincoln, a school librarian and teacher, will share the lessons they use to introduce Holocaust studies to students using art.

Session 2C Causarina Behind the Scenes of the Sydney Taylor Awards Sydney Taylor Committee Go behind the scenes of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee! Join us for a revealing discussion of the criteria the committee uses to evaluate books. Get new insight into the positive merits to the winners, honors, and notables and discover other noteworthy titles for your collections and classrooms. The committee will be sharing both practical tips to share these books with your students and programming ideas.

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MONDAY Session 2D Palo Verde B Moderated by Rachel Simon Accessing the Iraqi Jewish Archive Dina Herbert The Iraqi Jewish Archive, a group of 2,700 books and tens of thousands of documents found in Saddam Hussein’s flooded intelligence building, came to the United States in 2003 for preservation, cataloging, and exhibition. The books and documents all relate to the Baghdadi Jewish Community. After nearly ten years, the material is now all available through an online database ensuring access. This paper will discuss the unique challenges of the collection, plus the exciting discoveries of materials from the basement.

The North African Jewish Manuscript Collection at the Yale University Library Nanette Stahl This paper discusses the acquisition of a collection of over 1,500 manuscripts from North Africa with a particular emphasis on Morocco dating from 1800-1950. The documents consist of rabbinic decisions, poetry, liturgy, mystical texts, homilies, and more. In addition to the content of the manuscripts, the process by which it was made available for scholarly research will also be discussed. Experts in the field were enlisted to assist in identifying content, outside funding was obtained to help cover expenses, preservation needs were determined, and a finding aid was created. All this and additional plans for the collection will be discussed along with a PowerPoint display of several of the documents.

4:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.

Session 3

Session 3A Mesquite 4 A Place in Space: Honoring Our Ancestral Communities Online Schelly Talalay Dardashti In this digital age, it is easier than ever before to honor our ancestral communities, preserve resources, and recreate memories for all descendants of a particular place in history. The following will be discussed: Why is this important; Internet/Digital presence vs brick-and-mortar presence; who will be interested?; where and how to locate interested collaborators and descendants; what to include; and examples of successful projects.

Jewish Refugees in Shanghai: Curating Personal Artifacts Julie Kalmar Based on Ms. Kalmar’s experiences curating a portion of the exhibit Jewish Refugees in Shanghai (1933-1941) at UCLA in Fall 2013, she will present a brief history of the Shanghai ghetto, an overview of the exhibition, and her work with Shanghailanders who live in Los Angeles, who contributed artifacts to the exhibit and participated in the symposium. Local Shanghailanders will present five minute “stories” of their experiences. Questions are encouraged after the presentation. There will be artifacts to display.

Session 3B Palo Verde A Moderated by Amalia Warshenbrot Strategic Plan Yaffa Weissman Yaffa Weissman, incoming AJL President and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, will share the process followed in developing the strategic plan, as well as the plan proposed to steer AJL in the future.

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MONDAY/TUESDAY 2 Jews & 3 Opinions: What Do YOU Want from AJL? New Board members This roundtable discussion will give AJL members a chance to hear from the incoming leaders of the organization and to share what they want AJL to provide.

Session 3C Causarina Sydney Taylor, Part 2 Go behind the scenes of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee! Join us for a revealing discussion of the criteria the committee uses to evaluate books. Get new insight into the positive merits to the winners, honors, and notables and discover other noteworthy titles for your collections and classrooms. The committee will share both practical tips to share these books with your students and programming ideas.

Session 3D Palo Verde B Library of Congress Update Marina Korenberg, Gail Shirazi, Aaron Taub, 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 and will address questions submitted in advance by AJL members.

5:45 p.m.-6:15 p.m.

Exhibit Only Time

Acacia AB

5:45-6:15 p.m.

Meet the RAS Award Winner Harry Bochner

Causarina

6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Egalitarian Minyan Orthodox Minyan

Palo Verde B Palo Verde A

6:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.

Reception The reception honors our Award winners

Loft

7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Awards Banquet

Acacia ABCD

9:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.

Committee meetings

TUESDAY, JUNE 24 7:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.

Registration

Loft

7:00 a.m.-7:45 a.m.

Egalitarian Minyan Orthodox Minyan

Palo Verde B Palo Verde A

8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

Breakfast Reception Tour at UNLV Lied Library First Bus leaves from front of hotel at 7:30 a.m.

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TUESDAY 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

UNLV Library

Between Being Wise and Not-Knowing-What-To-Ask: Jewish Librarianship and Digital Humanities Professor Dr. Emile Schrijver Moderated by: Michelle Chesner There are numerous definitions of Digital Humanities, most of which tend toward an incorporation of digital technology and innovative research questions in the humanities. The applicability of such a definition to the field of libraries is problematic to say the least. Libraries typically provide access to the results of research and do not produce new knowledge per se.

Still, the potential for present and future users of libraries of an integration of the results of Digital Humanities research, such as harvesting certain data from enormous data sets, analyzing digital repositories of pictorial material, or creating new digital environments for research is enormous. This lecture will present DH-initiatives that are carried out in the field of Jewish studies and are relevant to Jewish librarianship. It will also present the latest global trends in Jewish library digitization and it aims at being "practical", by also addressing the four questions implied in its title: what is wise, what is wicked, what is going on, and how to begin? It will also try to provoke discussion by formulating a number of clear, most likely too clear, recommendations for libraries struggling with digitization and the integration of digital humanities research.

10:40 a.m.

Bus back to Westin Hotel

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Registration

Loft

11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Exhibits open

Acacia AB

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Session 4

Session 4A Mesquite 2 Moderated by Rita Frischer All-of-a-Kind Family, Not Anymore/ High Holidays and Beyond Joni Sussman, Mira Reisberg, Ann Stampler There is a need to write Jewish children’s books that speak to the recent fascinating and much discussed poll of the American Jewish community by the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project. This first major survey of American Jews in more than ten years finds a significant rise in those who are not religious, marry outside the faith, and are not raising their children Jewish. How will the Jewish community (and by extension, Jewish libraries) cope with these changes and how will good Jewish children’s books help us succeed in raising Jewish kids?

While the High Holy Days and Holocaust related stories make up a large share of Jewishthemed children’s literature, there is also a growing body of published books that tap into Jewish culture through humor and exploration of cultural values and identifiers such as social justice themes, Chelm stories, and yiddishkeit books. This presentation explores these books and their value in education.

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TUESDAY Session 4B Palo Verde B Moderated by Sharon Benamou The Old Jewish Library in Mainz Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehnhardt The Old Jewish Library of Mainz was saved during World War II. The books were hidden in a coal cellar and survived in rather good condition. The collection of almost 5,500 volumes, among them rare Hebraica and manuscripts, is one of the very few libraries saved from the persecutions in Germany. In 1946, the books were brought to the newly founded university of Mainz. Most interesting is the reconstruction of the ownership of some of the books. Some of the books came from the private libraries of Rabbis and preachers of the Mainz community; most famous are Marcus Lehmann (1831-1890) and Siegmund Salfeld (1843-1926).The presentation will give an overview of the most precious volumes and the libraries history.

Contemporary World Jewish Publications - Collection Assessment / Collection Building: The Case of the Harvard Judaica Collection Elizabeth Vernon Over the past three years, the Harvard Library Judaica Division has been undergoing a systematic review of its contemporary holdings of Western Judaica. This has involved a countryby-country extraction and synthesis of bibliographic data from national, university, and Jewish community libraries, as well as WorldCat, based on a honed series of keywords and author headings. Automated searching techniques are then used to compare the compiled country lists with Harvard holdings, and sources are identified for books not held. This talk will describe the workflow, data design, and automation techniques used for this project.

Session 4C Causarina Moderated by Michelle Chesner Roundtable on Digital Humanities Michelle Chesner, Marianne Buehler, Arthur Kiron This session will be a discussion and follow-up to the plenary address by Dr. Schrijver. The members of the panel will share how they are using digital humanities and present some of their current projects.

Session 4D Palo Verde A Moderated by Lynn Waghalter Peek into Programming Elizabeth Stabler Do you want to bring more people into your library? Are you wondering where to begin? Learn about planning and presenting programs which will work best for your library's or institution's particular needs and interests. We'll also talk about different kinds of programs and how to find presenters.

What Are We Reading? The Latest and Greatest in Jewish Adult Fiction Kamin/Tillman Our patrons are looking for a "Good Read" - how can we help them find an appropriate book?

How can we keep up with all of the new releases? What are Jewish book groups reading?

Explore the latest and greatest in Jewish fiction for adult readers and come prepared to share some of your favorite new titles. Tips for running a successful book group and reading lists will be shared.

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TUESDAY 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

Palo Verde B

Ideas for Supporting Jewish Studies Research: An Interactive Session with EBSCO’s Executive Vice President Sam Brooks EBSCO has advisory boards for business, medicine, art, music, law, political science, and other academic disciplines, but it is not feasible to have a board for every subject area. As a result, EBSCO complements its boards by running informal focus groups with library experts in other disciplines. The company would like to receive feedback on how it can improve its platform in the area of Jewish Studies. EBSCO has a comprehensive discovery service and wants to ensure that it contains the most comprehensive coverage in all disciplines. Further, EBSCOhost is a platform for hundreds of databases (including Index to Jewish Periodicals, Jewish Studies Source, etc.) and more than 500,000 e-books, and the company would like to learn about improving these products and possibly adding new ones. EBSCO will give a review of its strategic direction and a summary of its related content, and then open the session for feedback from librarians.

12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

Exhibit Time

Acacia AB

1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Awards Lunch Presentation of Life Membership Award; Scholarships; Wikler-Groner Award.

Acacia ABCD

2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.

Session 5

Session 5A Mesquite 2 Moderated by Diane Rauchwerger and Lisa Silverman An All School Read Elaine Kaplan and Julia Weinstein Rockwern Academy’s All-School-Read programs began with a seed that grew into a huge tree branching in many directions. Julia Weinstein, the school librarian at Cincinnati’s Jewish day school, and Language Arts teacher Elaine Kaplan were discussing Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea. Then Ms. Weinstein learned the book had both a young adult version and a picture book companion, Listen to the Wind. The two considered the possibility of sharing the book and its messages of tolerance and education with the entire school, from Pre-K to 8th grade, across all disciplines, from Language Arts to Music to Art to Judaic Studies. The two developed a program for the book to serve as the basis of a community outreach program. After four years, the All-School-Read has become a Rockwern institution, integrated into every classroom across many subjects, unifying the school around an innovative reading program and providing a unique opportunity for Day School students to meet and learn with students from a variety of backgrounds.

Using the Valuesfinder Heather Lenson Heather will show the many features of the Valuesfinder and talk about ways this valuable resource can help in book selection and reader’s advisory.

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TUESDAY Session 5B Palo Verde A Moderated by Jim Rosenbloom The Koren Talmud Yehoshua Miller This lecture will focus on the role of the Talmud as one of the most central texts in Jewish life. For generations, scholars have poured over the pages of the Talmud as an unparalleled compendium of rabbinic wisdom that discusses halakha, philosophy, midrash, history and more.

The Talmud scholars at Koren Publishers share a common vision that the Talmud goes far beyond an in-depth book of rabbinical literature; it holds the key to the ongoing renewal and vitality of Jewish life and Jewish culture. This presentation will demonstrate how the reintroduction of previously-censored texts and the educational elements in Koren’s new edition of the Talmud Bavli reflect these values.

The World of Jewish Cookbooks: Sliced two ways David Hirsch and Anna M. Levia With the establishment of Food Studies programs at universities in North America and elsewhere over the past several decades, cookbooks are now fully recognized by academic libraries as valuable troves of all kinds of information. Foodways researcher Barbara Wheaton uses cookbooks to document the use of ingredients; kitchen equipment and the workspace; and cooking techniques across time and space.i And as NYU professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health Marion Nestle writes in her foreword to 101 Classic Cookbooks, “food history is inscribed in cookbooks. Recipes are gateways to understanding how people ate and thought about foodways in the past.”ii This presentation will examine the Jewish cookbook collections at UCLA and Stanford University Libraries in two ways. First, David Hirsch will talk about his experiences with cookbook collecting and show examples from UCLA’s holdings. Then Anna Levia will explore the question: Using tools of textual analysis, what can digital humanities researchers discover and learn from Jewish cookbooks? Drawing on congregation and other Jewish community cookbooks from the library holdings of Stanford University and UCLA, Anna will outline the steps of a simple text mining project. She will document process, challenges and possibilities along the way.

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Barbara Wheaton, “Finding Real Life In Cookbooks: The Adventures Of A Culinary Historian,” Humanities Research Group, Vol. 7 (1998). Accessed December 11, 2013.

1 Marvin J. Taylor and Clark Wolf, eds., 101 Classic Cookbooks: 501 Classic Recipes (New York: Rizzoli, 2012), p. 8-9.

Session 5C Mesquite 4 Moderated by Arlene Ratzabi Digital Citizenship in the Jewish School Library Karen Ulric A discussion session for school librarians on working with faculty and administration for establishing standards and benchmarks in information literacy and digital citizenship, and on developing rubrics to asses student achievement in these areas. The discussion will include tying the concept of digital literacy to Jewish ethical values.

Educating Students to be Responsible Digital Citizens Cherille Berman This presentation will focus on how to teach good practices on the internet. It is designed to create greater awareness amongst high school students to:  Participate positively (no cyberbullying or risky behavior)  Protect privacy and security

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Build identities Respect intellectual property

Session 5D Palo Verde B Moderated by Jasmin Nof OCLC The session will provide an overview of new services and developments at OCLC with a focus on cataloging and other issues of interest to AJL.

4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Session 6

Session 6A Mesquite 2 Moderated by Aimee Lurie Building the Credible World: The Importance of History in Jewish Children’s Books Barbara Krasner Historical fiction and history nonfiction for young readers bear the obligation to make history come alive. They also bear the obligation to create a credible world. Many do so through a mixture of seven components: painstaking research, contextual setting, tone, focused storytelling, engaging characters, vetting by subject matter experts, and compelling back matter.

Yet, others suffer from the lack of these things. This presentation celebrates the books that do it well (promoters) and shows why others do a disservice to young readers (detractors).

Website 613: Creative Ways to Provide Your Patrons with Jewish Resources Joyce Levine An essential part of the library program, the library web site has become a primary tool for disseminating information in the current electronic environment. Your site should support the curriculum of your school and provide continuing education for synagogue library patrons by offering a wide range of resources tailored to their needs. Online Jewish resources abound.

How can they be organized in logical and attractive ways on your synagogue or school library website? How can you provide your patrons with diverse sources, especially avoiding bias in coverage of Israel?

Session 6B Mesquite 4 Moderated by Amalia Warshenbrot and Judy Weidman Strategic Plan Yaffa Weissman Yaffa Weissman, incoming AJL President and Chair of the Strategic Planing Committee, will share the process followed in developing the strategic plan, as well as the plan proposed to steer AJL in the future.

How to Get Attention aka Library Advocacy Toby Harris Learn how to flaunt your assets, get attention, and practice library advocacy. This session will be directed to synagogue and center libraries, but can also be applied to schools and other settings. We will go through the AJL Advocacy Toolkit, its talking points, value calculator, and other resources. We will also touch on community assessment, as well as share ideas for effective action and programming to improve visibility for your library.

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TUESDAY Session 6C Moderated by Heidi Lerner RAS Cataloging

Palo Verde B

Session 6D Palo Verde A Moderated by Rachel Leket-Mor Halakha and Netiquette Dr. David Levy What does the Jewish tradition have to share with regards to questions concerning netiquette and online ethics? What is the relationship between the internet and civility? Has incivility in America increased due to social media and what are its effects on democratic public discourse?

How can we measure the effects of online incivility by objective scientific criteria? Does online anonymity encourage harassment of women or does online anonymity protect marginalized groups? Why is cyberbullying a serious problem from the standpoint of Jewish ethics? How do we attempt to curb the epidemic of cyberbulling amongst students? How can schools and teachers take action to combat cyberbullying? What are the etiquette and ethics of social media? Does Facebook immorally lead to exploiting its users? What does Jewish law have to say about (1) responsible use of the internet? (2) causing harm psychologically of persons by "meanspeak", (3) embarassing person in public via the internet, (4) causing harm to individuals whereby a loshon ha-rah on the internet can kill a reputation or career opportunity or shidduch as per the criteria specified by the Chofetz Chaim's laws of considering one's words that can be used as a sword to harm or used to promote life, happiness, health, and constructive good?

BDS & Bias in Academia: What Can Librarians Do? Wendy Diamond This session will consider the establishment of a working group to prepare for potential BDS activities in college settings, professional associations, and public library communities. In addition, the discussion will address increasing bias against Israel’s perspective in mainstream library resources, such as reference tools, databases, journal literature, and video collections.

Although most evident in academia, public librarians have a role and are welcome to join the discussion.

5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. TED Talks Causarina Why Talk about the Old Tales Now? Sharon Elswit  Once upon a time, a Jewish grandfather told his granddaughter who was being bullied about a woman who had to figure out how to pull three hairs from a lion’s mane.  Once upon a time when times were hard, a rabbi told the community the story of the miracle that occurred after the Baal Shem Tov’s secret spot for praying for his people was lost.  Once upon a time, a stranger helped a lost young man find his way in the world by telling him the tale where King Solomon loses his whole identity in one moment of arrogance and needs to start again.

They began once upon a time, and they’re still here - all these relationships and struggles in a messy world - and all the folktales. Jewish stories people have passed on from generation to generation stand ready to bring wonder, comfort, teaching, laughter, argument, and quiet reflection to enrich our human lives. Not just for children. Applying Jewish values, the old stories are ready to show us how to forgive; how to help others; the importance of education, devotion, generosity, and perspective; when to proceed with caution, and why to bother. So many Jewish stories are out there. But, how can you find the right story to fit a situation? How

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TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY do you choose one variant of a story over a different telling? How have the old tales changed over time? How do they inform new ones? Why share them outside of the Jewish community?

And why do I collect them for you? I’d like you to come out of my talk with renewed appreciation for seeking and sharing the old tales and some practice with me in finding them.

Books Plucked from the Fire: A Litvak Child’s Bookshelf Shuli Berger When Shuli Berger was a student in an introductory Yiddish course, her mother showed her a group of Yiddish children’s books she had owned since her childhood. Shuli will lecture on these books, which upon investigation were discovered to be rare Yiddish children’s books, written and illustrated by Moshe Levin, under the pseudonym Ber Sarin, published in Vilna in the late 1930s. The presentation will include a discussion of the books and their author, and the backstory of the books; how they traveled from Kovno, Lithuania, to Chicago, IL. The presentation will be illustrated with images from the books, archival documents, and photographs.

Poetry Reading Aaron Taub Poems from several published books of poetry by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub will be read.

6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Roundtable discussions of TED talks Elinor Grumet

Causarina

6:15 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Egalitarian Minyan Orthodox Minyan

Palo Verde B Palo Verde A

7:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m.

Closing of Conference Yaffa Weissman

Causarina

Free night: Visit the Strip, see a show, ride the new Las Vegas “High Rollers” Film: Dancing on the Streets of Jaffa

Causarina

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Council meeting

9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Writer’s Workshop (additional fee) Barbara Krasner

OPTIONAL TOURS Scheduled on your own or through the concierge: Red Rock, Lake Mead, Hoover Dam, Mob Museum, Grand Canyon, Springs Preserve, Zipline….

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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.

Jackie Ben-Efraim attended JTS Joint Program and then continued at Columbia University School of Library Science in the 1970s. Following an odd set of circumstances, she only really began her work in the library field with the position she currently holds at American Jewish University in 2007. She took classes in book and paper conservation from Holly Moore, Head of Conservation at the Huntington Library and Kristen St. John at UCLA’s Library Preservation Program.

Shulamith Z. (Shuli) Berger is the Curator of Special Collections at Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library. She blogs on the Library’s website on material from its special collections, and lectures at AJL conferences and for Jewish groups in the New York area on American Jewish history.

She gives tours of the Lower East Side with the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy.

Cherille Berman is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her first job, as the university librarian of a mining and geology library, led to a career in that special libraries field. Cherille has worked as an information technologist for Shell Oil and Amoco (British Petroleum). Thereafter, Cherille switched to school libraries. Cherille joined the staff of Tarbut V'Torah as their librarian shortly after the school was founded.

Yoram Bitton is the director of the Klau Library at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in New York.

Sam Brooks is Executive Vice President of EBSCO and is in charge of all worldwide sales, marketing, and market research efforts of EBSCO. He is heavily involved in product development and is one of the leading content experts in the company, as well as the chief architect of EBSCO’s nineteen advisory boards and numerous focus groups. Sam has visited universities in more than ninety countries, and has worked extensively with ministries of education, science & technology, and culture in developing nations.

He has authored papers in major international library science journals. He has also been published in the library publications of more than a dozen countries. Sam co-edited the book Library/Vendor Relationships, published simultaneously as an issue of The Journal of Library Administration. He has participated in panel discussions or appeared as the keynote speaker at many library conferences, including ACRL Chapter Meetings, IFLA, The Charleston Conference, ALCTS Networked Resources & Metadata Committee Meeting, International Congress of Information (Cuba), LITA Technology & Access Committee Meeting, NLA Tri-Round Table, and many others. Sam joined EBSCO in July 1991 and is a member of the EBSCO Founder’s Club.

Miriam Brysk, a Holocaust survivor, artist, and author, was a gun-toting Partisan at the age of eight. After a career as a noted scientist, she turned her talents to art and has some of her work hanging in Yad VaShem as well as the U.S. Holocaust memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She is the author of two books, Amidst the Shadow of Trees and The Stones Weep: Teaching the Holocaust through a Sur i or’s Art which she wrote with Margaret Lincoln.

Marianne A. Buehler is currently the Urban Sustainability Librarian and the Digital Scholarship@UNLV institutional repository administrator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received an MA in Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona and a BA in English from the University of Maine. Her applied research and publications are focused on scholarly communication, such as open access journal publishing, self-publishing, and copyright. She also engages in scholarly communication intersections within information literacy and archival materials. A natural progression is

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her interest in digital humanities and aspects of data curation. Her monograph, Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success, was recently published.

Michelle Chesner is the Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia University, as well as the outgoing Secretary of the RAS division of AJL. She has worked at the University of Pennsylvania and the Jewish Theological Seminary, as well as the rare Judaica auction house, Kestenbaum and Company. In addition, Chesner dabbles in various digital humanities projects ranging from the movement of Jewish books to Yiddish theatre and from American Jewish newspapers to Yiddish linguistics. She is currently involved with a larger project to create a digital repository for such creations within the realm of Jewish Studies.

Laurel Corona is the author of The Mapma er’s Daughter, a historical novel focusing on Jewish women’s lives in Iberia in the last tumultuous decades before the 1492 expulsion. Twice the winner of the Theodor Geisel Award for Book of the Year from the San Diego Book Awards, she also won a Christopher Medal for Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance (SMP 2008) and has written young adult books on Israel, Judaism, and Jewish Americans for Lucent Books.

Schelly Talalay Dardashti is a genealogist, international speaker, and instructor. She is the US Genealogy Advisor for MyHeritage.com and editor/contributor of the MyHeritage blog. Her noted articles have appeared in Avotaynu, NGS Quarterly, The Forward, Hadassah, JTA, and other media. The former Jerusalem Post genealogy columnist ("It's All Relative," 1999-2005) is an award-winning pioneer Jewish genealogy blogger (Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog). She has spent more than 25 years tracing her family across Eastern Europe, Spain and Iran. She is the administrator/co-administrator of several projects at FamilyTreeDNA.com, notably the IberianAshkenaz DNA Project, which confirms Sephardic origins of some Eastern European Ashkenazi families. She is a Board member of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies and on the Steering committee, Sandoval County (NM) Genealogical Society.

Wendy Diamond is Business, Economics, and Art Librarian at California State University, Chico, where she has also served as Head of Reference & Instruction. She is a member of ALA and has been active in the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS). She has written books and presented about marketing information sources and served California Academic and Research Libraries (ACRL/CARL) in several board positions. As a Faculty Fellow of the Israel on Campus Coalition, she works with scholars and other campus leaders to strengthen the pro-Israel movement. At the local level, she is a board member for Hillel and librarian for her synagogue.

Sharon Elswit is the author of The Jewish Story Finder: A Guide to 668 Tales Listing Subjects and nd Sources 2 ed.; The East Asian Story Finder: A Guide to 468 Tales from China, Japan, and Korea, and a forthcoming Latin American Story Finder. She has been sharing stories with children and adults for 35 years as a children’s librarian. She currently teaches at Léman Manhattan Preparatory School in NYC and reviews folklore for Jewish Book World.

Debbie Feder is currently the Director of the LRC at Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago. She has her MLIS 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 Ad enture and is honored to be a member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee.

Joseph (Yossi) Galron is the Hebraica and Jewish Studies librarian at The Ohio State University.

Formerly, he was a librarian at Tel Aviv University. Yossi is an AJL Council member and moderator of several mailing lists of the Association, including the HaSafran list, Heb-NACO list and others.

Joanne Gilbert, after a thirty year career as an educator, was able to dedicate the past four years to exploring the topic of women resisters. Her book, the first of a series, Women Of Valor: Feourmale Resistance to the Nazis ~ POLAND, will be published by Gihon River Press in March 2014. Joanne conducted a four week series of seminars on Women of Valor at the Las Vegas Jewish Community Center and has presented at several teacher workshops and conferences. Joanne has taught at all levels

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of education: middle school, high school, independent study, juvenile court school, and as an adjunct English professor, College of Southern Nevada.

Etta Gold has the title of Reform Jewish Educator and holds an MLS. She has been the Library Director at Temple Beth Am of Miami since 1996, serving the day school, religious school, congregation, and community. Prior to earning her MLS, Etta worked for many years in Jewish education as a teacher and administrator. She maintains an active role in national AJL where she has served on various committees Accreditation, Sydney Taylor Book Award, Chapter Relations - and is a past president of the SSC Division.

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 Cataloging.

Lisa Hansel is the director of communications for the Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the idea that every child should learn a core of content that spans language arts and literature, history and geography, mathematics, science, music, and the visual arts. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2013, she was the editor of American Educator, the quarterly journal of educational research and ideas published by the American Federation of Teachers. In that role, she often published articles by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. and Daniel T. Willingham that explained why reading comprehension, critical thinking, and problem solving depend on relevant prior knowledge - and why, as a result, all students need a rigorous, coherent, grade-by-grade curriculum that builds broad knowledge. Lisa has a BS in Psychology from Washington and Lee University and an EdD in Education Policy from George Washington University, where she was also an adjunct professor and the writer and editor for the National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform. To learn more about Core Knowledge, please see www.coreknowledge.org and blog.coreknowledge.org.

Toby Harris has been a librarian at a large Reform synagogue since receiving her MLIS at the University of Washington in 2005. She is also an active member and former conference chair at AJL. Prior to becoming a librarian, she worked in many fields including community history, education, law and the arts.

She also has a BA in Speech Communication.

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 an MA in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She received her MLS from the University of Maryland. She lives with her husband in Northern Virginia.

David G. Hirsch has been the Librarian for Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies at UCLA since 1989. He has a BA in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and MA degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Library Science from the University of Chicago. David has lived, worked, traveled and studied throughout the Middle East and many other parts of the world. He most recently worked as Advisor to the Abu Dhabi National Library from 2009-2011.

Julie Kalmar is currently pursuing a post-masters certificate in Information Studies with a focus on Archival Studies. Her research projects include the creation of an online archive based on research into family Holocaust history in Slovakia and Hungary and a post-custodial archive of Shanghailander artifacts and histories based on people she’s worked with in Los Angeles for the UCLA exhibit Jewish Refugees in Shanghai (1933-1941). Both websites are created using Omeka.net, a publishing platform that allows individuals or organizations to display collections and build digital exhibitions (and incorporates Dublin Core metadata fields). Julie has a BA in International Studies, Western Europe from The Ohio State University and an MA in Art History (Modern and Contemporary German art, minor in German language, literature and film) from the University of Minnesota. Her professional background is in nonprofit and museum administration, including five years at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN as well as museum architectural planning. A profile of her current work can be found at http://ampersand.gseis.ucla.edu/julie-kalmar-is-student-curates-exhibit-on-jewish-refugees-in-shanghai/

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Rachel Kamin has worked as a synagogue librarian for over seventeen years and is currently the Director of the Joseph and Mae Gray Cultural & Learning Center at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park, IL. She serves as the Book Review Editor for Children & Teens for AJL Reviews and contributes articles and book reviews to BookLinks, School Library Journal, Jewish Book World, Judaica Librarianship, and AJL Reviews. She has facilitated Beth El’s Sisterhood Torah Fund Book Club since 2009 and also facilitates groups for the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership (Chicago, IL), McHenry County Jewish Congregation (Crystal Lake, IL), and Congregation Etz Chaim (Lombard, IL).

Kamin holds a BA in history from Grinnell College and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Elaine Kaplan graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College, where she majored in American Studies. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Elaine has taught fifth through ninth grade Language Arts and Social Studies for twenty years, the last sixteen at Rockwern Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio. Elaine has led Rockwern’s participation in several interscholastic online middle school programs run by the University of Michigan and she was invited to speak at their new teacher program orientation in 2011.

She has also coached award-winning Power of the Pen teams and taught afterschool creative writing and newspaper clubs. In 2011, Elaine was one of three teachers who received the Joyce Heiman Education Excellence Award for the development and implementation of an interfaith educational program. Elaine and her husband Andy are very proud of their three grown sons and new grandson. Elaine loves books, cooking, and dogs.

Marina Korenberg works as a Senior Library Technician in the Israel and Judaica Section of the Library of Congress. Ms. Korenberg has worked at the Library of Congress for eleven years and has over twenty years of experience in the field of Judaica/Hebraica librarianship, having worked previously at academic libraries at the University of Haifa, the University of Toronto, The 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 Co-President of the Capital Area Chapter of AJL (AJL/CAC).

Barbara Krasner is an award-winning writer and a member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee.

She has an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and publishes the popular blog, The Whole Megillah | The Writer’s Resource to Jewish Children’s Books. She is the former contributing editor to History Magazine and Family Chronicle and the former contributing editor on Jewish genealogy to Heritage Quest Magazine. Among her books are Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors (Heritage Quest, 2001) and the forthcoming Goldie Ta es a Stand: Golda Meir’s First Crusade (Kar-Ben, Fall 2014). Her history articles for young readers have appeared in Babaganewz, Calliope, Cobblestone, Footsteps, and Highlights for Children. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Douglass College, she majored in German (and spent junior year abroad at the University of Konstanz in southern Germany) and minored in Russian and history. Barbara is a candidate for the MA Applied Historical Studies at William Paterson University, where she teaches creative writing in the English department.

Dr. Andreas Lehnhardt is the Professor for Judaic Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His main interests are Jewish manuscripts and binding fragments, Jewish and Rabbinic literature, Haskala, Jewish tombstones, Samaritans and Jewish philosophy. He is a member of the ExCom of the European Association for Jewish Studies and is on the executive committee of the German Association for Jewish Studies.

Rachel Leket-Mor is the Jewish Studies librarian at Arizona State University Libraries and Editor-in-Chief of Judaica Librarianship, AJL’s scholarly journal. She served as RAS President (2010–2012) and RAS Vice-President (2008–2010) and co-chaired the AJL 2007 Annual Convention. Rachel’s past presentations at AJL meetings explored issues of scholarly communication, leadership, and collection development.

Anna M. Levia has worked as Assistant Curator for Judaica and Hebraica at Stanford University Libraries since 2010. She studied Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of

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Minnesota and earned a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. Anna’s professional interests include archival research and cookbooks.

Joyce Levine earned her graduate library degree at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has worked as a children’s librarian at the Great Neck Public Library and as a school librarian at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County. She created a new school library at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County High School in 1998 and established the library at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in 2002, where she still works as Library Director, clerk and shelver. Formerly serving as President of the SSC Division of AJL, Joyce is currently AJL VP for Publications.

David B Levy received a BA from Haverford College, an MA in Jewish Studies, an MLS from the UMCP, and a PhD from the BHU. David currently serves as a librarian at the Ruth Anne Hasten Library of Lander College for Women where David has prepared Judaica library guides on behalf of TC (found at http://libguides.tourolib.org/profile.php?uid=87838). A small fraction of David's publications are available at: http://facpubs.tourolib.org/publications/faculty/levy-david-b. David was pre-med at Haverford, but pursued love of Jewish studies instead. Rather than listing awards David has received, this bio concludes with "intrinsic goods" that David "values" as learning Torah without expectation of receiving reward in olam ha-zeh, lishma. David reads widely in a host of areas including the history of science, medicine, and related disciplines, in addition to devotion to all aspects of Jewish studies and the rabbinic curriculum.

David enjoys sharing the enobling ideas from good books with friends, and in the spirit of the Rambam, considers the life of the mind redemptive, finding in those great books, teachings (musar) that can better the soul with regards to balancing intellectual, moral, and spiritual virtue.

Margaret Lincoln is the District Librarian and National Honor Society Advisor at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, MI. She has been a lecturer in the School of Library and Information Science at San José State University and a database trainer for the Library of Michigan. She earned a PhD in Library and Information Sciences from the University of North Texas. Margaret has contributed a variety of articles to professional journals and co-authored Designing Online Learning: A Primer for Librarians, published by Libraries Unlimited. She has presented at many conferences, including ALA, Museums on the Web, and the International Conference on Holocaust Education. An American Memory Fellow with the Library of Congress and a Teacher Fellow with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, she secured funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to bring USHMM traveling exhibitions from Washington, DC to Battle Creek. In 2008, Margaret was one of ten librarians nationwide selected as a recipient of the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. In 2013, Lakeview High School Library received a Citation of Excellence in the State Librarian’s Excellence Award for Michigan libraries. Together with Holocaust survivor and artist Dr. Miriam Brysk, Margaret has written The Stones Weep: Teaching the Holocaust through a Sur i or’s Art. Aimee Lurie has been working in libraries since 2000. She is currently the librarian at The Agnon School, a community day school in Beachwood, OH. Aimee has been a member of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee since 2010 and recently served as committee chair. She has a BA in English from The Ohio State University and an MLS from Kent State University. She lives with her family outside of Cleveland, OH. Ben Pastcan is a librarian at Shalom School in Sacramento, CA. His library received Basic Level Accreditation from AJL in 2009 and at this conference, his school library will be receiving Advanced Level Accreditation. He has contributed book reviews to AJL Reviews. His current interests are in implementing more critical thinking when students read in and outside of the library.

Diane Rauchwerger has been synagogue librarian for Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, CA, since 1990. She has worked as a children's reference librarian for the Sunnyvale Public Library. Diane is the author of the dinosaur series published by Kar-Ben. Her most recent book is Dinosaur Goes to Israel. She is the current chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee.

Dr. Mira Reisberg is the founder of The Picture Book Academy (www.picturebookacademy.com).

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her own agency, Hummingbird Literary. Mira’s PhD is in Education and Cultural Studies with a focus on children’s literature.

Sylvia Rouss grew up in California and first began writing for the children in her preschool class. As an early childhood educator, she was the recipient of the Samuel Glasner Creative Teaching Award and the Grinspoon Steinhardt Award for excellence in Jewish education. Sylvia credits the children in her classroom for her inspiration. She is the author of more than 40 books including the Sammy Spider series, as well as The Littlest series. She received the National Jewish Book Award for her story, The Littlest Pair and won a Sydney Taylor Honor Award for Sammy Spider’s First Trip to Israel and Mitzvah the Mutt. Sammy Spider’s First Sha uot and Tali’s Jerusalem Scrapboo were named Sydney Taylor Notable Books. Sylvia resides in Los Angeles with her husband Jeff and has three adult children and three grandchildren. Besides writing and editing, she maintains a busy schedule that includes lecturing and book readings throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel.

Prof. Dr. Emile G.L. Schrijver is Professor of Jewish Book History and curator of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana (Special Collections) at the University of Amsterdam. He is also one of the curators of the private Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books in Zurich, Switzerland. He is an expert on post‐medieval Hebrew manuscripts and printed books on which he has published and lectured extensively in Europe, Israel and North America. He has written a number of introductions to facsimile editions of Hebrew manuscripts and has published numerous auction and exhibition catalogues. He is the executive editor of an Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Culture which is scheduled to be published by Brill Publishers of Leiden and Boston in 2018, as well as the editor-in-chief of the annual Studia Rosenthaliana, published by Peeters Publishers of Louvain, Belgium. He serves on boards and advisory committees of numerous Jewish cultural organizations in and outside the Netherlands.

Gail Shirazi is a librarian in the Israel and Judaica Section of the Library of Congress where she has worked for 38 years. She specializes in Israeli acquisitions in all formats and languages. She holds an MLS from Catholic University, an MA from Syracuse University (Maxwell School) and a BA in Political Science from University of Maryland. She enjoyes arranging lectures and programs in cooperation with embassies, academic organizations, and other libraries.

Elizabeth F. Stabler (Liza) is the librarian at Temple Emanu-El of New York City, where she is the solo librarian doing everything from reading to small children, facilitating book discussions, and helping create programs for the Temple, while also seeing to the usual library tasks. Liza has an AB from Bryn Mawr cum laude and an MS from Columbia University’s School of Library Service with honors. A member of AJL since 1994, she particularly values her involvement with AJL-NYMA. Nanette Stahl is the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Librarian for Judaic Studies at the Yale University Library.

She has been at Yale for over twenty years where she has been responsible for expanding Yale’s printed manuscript and digital Jewish collections. Nanette has a PhD in Hebrew literature from the University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley, she was Judaica bibliographer at the Law Library where she built a Jewish law collection. Nanette lives with her husband William in Hamden, CT. Joni Sussman is the Publisher at Kar-Ben Publishing, a division of Lerner Publishing Group. Kar-Ben’s concentration is Jewish-themed picture books for children, both fiction and non-fiction for preschool th through approximately 5 grade, including holiday books, life-cycle stories, Bible tales, folktales, and board books. In particular, Kar-Ben seeks stories that reflect the rich cultural diversity of today’s Jewish th family. Kar-Ben, celebrating its 35 anniversary, publishes 15-20 new titles each year.

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 four books of poetry, Prayers of a Heretic/Tfiles fun an apikoyres (2013), Uncle Feygele (2011), What Stillness Illuminated/Vos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn (2008), and The Insatiable Psalm (2005). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Between: New Gay Poetry (2013), Step by Step: Contemporary Yiddish Poetry/Trot bay trot: haynttsaytike Yidishe poezye (2009), and The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing (1998). Honored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage as one of New York's best

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emerging Jewish artists, Taub's poems have been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for a Best of the Net Award. He regularly contributes articles and book reviews to AJL Reviews. Please visit his web site at www.yataub.net.

Galina Teverovsky has worked at the Library of Congress since 2002, first in the Serial Record Division, then in the Middle Eastern Acquisitions Section. She is currently a Senior Library Technician in the Israel and Judaica Section. She performs cataloging and acquisition duties and works closely with 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 the Washington, DC metropolitan area since her emigration in 1993 from the former Soviet Union. Ms. Teverovsky is Co-President of the Capital Areas Chapter of AJL (AJL/CAC).

Ellen Tilman is the Director of Library Services at the Meyers Library of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, PA. She has served as the Editor of the Congregation’s Bulletin and as Israel Coordinator. She is the leader of the library’s adult book discussion group and is a member of two other book groups. She leads a session on “What’s New in Jewish Books” at the Ramah Darom Passover Camp in Clayton, GA. Ellen has a BA in Political Science from Goucher College, a Master of Social Service Degree in Social Planning from Bryn Mawr College, and an MBA in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.

Carla L. Trounson works for Washoe County Library System and manages the Shia Szrut Holocaust Memorial Collection which is housed at the Northwest Reno Library in Reno, NV. She grew up traveling around the world and experiencing many cultures. Additionally, she developed a love of history, saw the violence of poverty, experienced acceptance and kindness, and was struck by the prevalence of intolerance and racism. The book Night was her introduction to the Holocaust, and it has never left her. She began to ask questions such as, “when does genocide begin” and “why do ordinary people go along”? Carla graduated with a BA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and studied history at the Masters degree level at the University of Nevada Reno, and completed course work th in three fields of study: the Holocaust, African American History, and 20 Century American History. With twenty years of experience working in academic and public libraries, she considers it a privilege to serve as a member on the Nevada Holocaust Education Task Force.

Karen Ulric has been the librarian at Golda Och Academy (formerly Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union) for 12 years. She began her career as a Librarian Trainee and Children's Librarian with The New York Public Library (eventually spending three years as a librarian with Pooh Bear in the Central Children's Room), and also worked at The Brearley School in NYC and the West Orange (NJ) Public Library. When not running around like a headless chicken, she assists her students in grades 6-12 with research and reading choices, spends hours with InDesign and Photoshop as the Yearbook Advisor, and encourages faculty to explore both print and electronic resources. She lives in West Orange, NJ with th her 6 grade son, greyhound, and husband (whom she sees occasionally – he just received his JD from Rutgers Law School). She has recently become fascinated by Steampunk, and is finally learning to use her sewing machine after ten years of ownership.

Elizabeth Vernon is Lee M. Friedman Judaica Technical Services Librarian in the Judaica Division of the Harvard Library. She has a Master’s in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, an MLS in Library Science, and a DA in Library Administration from Simmons College. She is the author of Decision-Making for Automation: Hebrew and Arabic Script Materials in the Automated Library and Jewish Studies Courses at American and Canadian Universities, as well as many articles related to Judaica and Middle Eastern librarianship.

Julia Weinstein serves as librarian at Rockwern Academy, a Cincinnati Jewish day school, where she also develops special educational and outreach programming. She worked with Language Arts teacher Elaine Kaplan to institute the school's All-School Read program, which garnered national attention in 2011, when a "Three Cups of Tea" program blossomed into a Jewish-Muslim interfaith education partnership with the International Academy, Cincinnati's Muslim day school. Another All-School Read of

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President Obama's, "Of Thee I Sing," led to a collaboration with Pleasant Hills Academy, an inner-city Cincinnati public school. As school librarian, Julia has forged a partnership with the Cincinnati Public Library to greatly expand the school library's offerings. She regularly invites guest speakers to the school, including award-winning children’s book authors and illustrators, storytellers, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, a former Negro League player, and many others. She partnered with PJ Library to launch Rockwern's annual "Celebration of the Book" storytelling festival to help foster the love of reading. In 2011, Julia was one of three teachers to receive the Joyce Heiman Education Excellence Award. Julia's son is a 2014 graduate of Rockwern Academy. Julia enjoys reading, kayaking, and hiking.

Bella Hass Weinberg is a noted Judaic library scholar and long time member of Association of ewish Libraries. She has been instrumental in the establishment of Judaica Librarianship as a noted scholarly journal.

Yaffa Weisman, PhD (USC), MLIS (UCLA,) is the Library Director at the Frances-Henry Library, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Jack Skirball Campus, Los Angeles. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the HUC-JIR Louchheim School of Jewish Studies, affiliated with The University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Yaffa likes to read, talk about, and occasionally teach, contemporary Israeli literature, the evolving Hebrew language, Jewish texts, and the Jewish LGBT experience. She is the incoming AJL president and the chair of the Strategic Planning committee.

Cynthia M. Whitacre is a librarian with a background working in academic and special libraries as a cataloger. She has been active in ALA and is a previous President of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). She has been with OCLC for 27 years and is currently a manager in the WorldCat Quality Management Division.

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ARI Publishers 2009 85th Street, #51 Brooklyn, NY 11214 www.kabbalahbooks.info KabbalahBooks.info is the official publisher of Bnei Baruch, the international group of Kabbalists sharing the wisdom of Kabbalah with the entire world. Study materials in over 40 languages are based on authentic Kabbalah texts that were passed down from generation to generation. We feature books by the greatest Kabbalists of our time: Yehuda Ashlag (1884-1954) who wrote the commentary on the Book of Zohar, his son Baruch Ashlag (1907-1991), and their successor Michael Laitman who has published over 50 books on Kabbalah that have been translated into over 30 languages.

Association Book Exhibit 9423 Old Mt. Vernon Road Alexandria, Virginia 22309 A combined display of scholarly/professional titles from leading publishers. Free ordering and catalog available.

Barnes and Noble 567 North Stephanie St. Henderson, NV 89014 www.bn.com Bloomsbury Publishing 1385 Broadway, Fifth Floor New York, NY 10018 Bloomsbury publishes authoritative and innovative titles in Jewish Studies from highlevel research monographs to essential textbooks and anthologies for students by influential authors in the field.

Gihon River Press P.O. Box 88 East Stroudsburg, PA 18301 gihonriverpress.com We are publishers that specialize in books in all genres that relate to Holocaust education. We will be displaying and selling eight or nine titles and giving away bookmarks for each.

Infomedia Judaica 19785 West 12 Mile Rd., Suite 521 Southfield, MI 48076-2584 Infomedia Judaica is a producer, distributor, consultant, and marketer of Judaic educational reference media including print, software, and video and audio products.

Established in 1994, it was one of the original partners in the creation of the CDROM Edition (the first digital version) of the Encyclopaedia Judaica.

Jerusalem Books Ltd. PO 26190 Jerusalem, Israel 91261 www.jerusalembooks.co.il One-stop shop for all books and all publishers from Israel. We have been supplying libraries, faculty and students for over 30 years.

Kol-Ami/Sifriyat Ami/SISU Home Entertainment 340 W. 39th Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10018 www.sisuent.com Publisher and distributor of Jewish and Israeli DVDs, books in Hebrew, audio books (Hebrew) and music on CD. Import books from all publishers in Israel. Distribute films and documentaries on DVD, digital license and also can provide institutional public performance rights on many of the films.

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Koren Publishers PO Box 8531 New Milford, CT 06776 www.korenpub.com Koren Publishers in Jerusalem publishes Jewish religious texts and general interest books in Hebrew, English, and other languages. Koren books offer textual precision, intuitive designs, and the best of contemporary Jewish thought to engage both mind and heart.

Media Flex- OPALS P.O. Box 1107 Champlain, NY 12919 www.mediaflex.net OPALS Open-source Automated Library System is a feature-rich cooperatively developed, Web-based, open source program. This alternative technology provides Internet access to information databases, library collections, eBooks and digital archives. OPALS latest updates untangle eBook management, as well as database authentication and access, making it easy to respond to the growing demand for remote access to your library's authentic information resources 24/7.

MEMORAH 1 San Sebastian Newport Beach, CA 92660 www.MEMORAH.com The Holocaust, 4-volume book in Farsi.

The Scholar's Choice 100 College Ave. # 130 Rochester, NY 14607 www.scholarschoice.com The Scholar's Choice is a combined exhibit company which displays books and journals on behalf of university and academic presses who choose not to exhibit on their own.

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PROUD TO BE LIBRARIANS PROUD TO BE PART OF THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES TO A SUCCESSFUL LAS VEGAS CONVENTION!

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The Groner-Wikler Scholarship for AJL Conference Attendance Barbara Krasner Freelance author, copywriter, editor, speaker Barbara Krasner has been involved in Jewish children's literature since 2003 when she joined the committee to host and organize the annual Jewish Children's Writers & Illustrators Conference in New York City. In 2010, she launched her blog, The Whole Megillah | The Writer's Resource for Jewish Story. As a result of her book reviews on her blog, she was invited to apply to the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee and has been a member since 2011.

Barbara holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of the forthcoming picture book, Goldie Takes a Stand!

Golda Meir's First Crusade (Kar-Ben, September 2014). She leads a Jewish children's book writing workshop at the Highlights Foundation and teaches creative writing and children's literature at William Paterson University in New Jersey.

Blog, The Whole Megillah - The Writer's Resource for Jewish Story: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry @TWMblog www.barbarakrasner.com barbarakrasner@att.net The annual scholarship is funded by Kar-Ben Publishing in honor of founding publishers Judye Groner and Madeline Wikler, who retired in December. The Groner-Wikler Scholarship will be awarded annually to an AJL member who demonstrates dedication to Jewish children's literature and library services.

The award ceremony will take place at the award lunch in Tuesday, June 24th.

Mazal Tov Barbara!

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