AJL 2014 Program at a glance

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 6:30pm7:00 pm 6:45pm8 pm 8:15pm9:15 pm 9:30pm10:30pm

REGISTRATION

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

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Acacia A/B Mesquite 4 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

Monday, June 23 7-7:45 am 7-8:30 am 8:009:00 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

Mesquite 4

REGISTRATION

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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

SSC Division Meeting Palo Verde A General Membership Meeting

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

RAS Division Meeting Palo Verde B Causarina

Monday, June 23 2:30-4 pm

2A Mesquite 2 A Modern Hebrew Literature BioBibliographic Lexicon

2B Palo Verde A 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

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 pm

2C Causarina Behind the Scenes of the Sydney Taylor Awards

The North African Jewish Manuscript Collection 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

Committee Meetings

3D Palo Verde B Library of Congress Update

Acacia AB Causarina Palo Verde A

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Acacia ABCD

Tuesday, June 24 6:30am7 am 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

Egalitarian Minyan

Morning Walk

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REGISTRATION

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Palo Verde B Orthodox Minyan

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

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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

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.

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

Council Meeting Mesquite 4 Writer’s Workshop (additional fee) See the Concierge for local visits to Las Vegas attractions

See you next year in

Washington, D.C.