Photos of the Day: Tuesday

Marcia Posner and Fred Isaac

Siegal College of Judaic Studies Honoree Jean Lettofsky in honor of 25 years of Service to the College

AJL Past Presidents

Amanda Seigel, scholarship awardee, with the AJL Scholarship Committee

Elliot Gertel of the University of Michigan

Roger Kohn of Library of Congress presenting the Cataloging Update.

Next Year in Chicago!

Next year's convention will be in Chicago in July- right around the time of ALA.

The following years include AJL in Seattle, Montreal and Los Angeles...

We're all looking forward!

Collection Development

Hearing from Alice Crosetto and Daniel E. Feinberg we learned quite a bit about the use of cookbooks to understand cultural norms, economics and a generally good way of interesting children with a productive end. Jewish life and culture is often transmitted by means of food and eating together-- which was rather evident by the myriad of websites and books which have been published that detail these ideas.

Elizabeth Vernon explained that Harvard University collects advertisements- as they can be utilized for historical, economic and sociological studies to understand a community, their interests, goals and a window into the life that they live. From pamphlets to solicitations- Israeli and American Jewish advertising are being collected.

2008 Rosaline and Meyer Feinstein Lecture

Pearl Berger delivering the 2008 Rosaline and Meyer Feinstein Lecture

Dr. David Gilner, Director of Libraries at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion introducing Dean Pearl Berger

Pearl Berger, Benjamin Gottesman Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Yeshiva University- presented a lecture entitled: "From Otzar Sefarim to Otzar Hokhmah: Transitions and Transformations."

Highlights from the lecture included insight into the 'millennium generation,' how to reach out them and note the worth of the library and its resources. Pearl has presented us with challenges to keep Judaica and librarianship, in general, modern and current for our users' needs.

Session: AJL Standards

The following message is from Karen Ulrich, Librarian at the Meislin Memorial Library (grades 6-12) at Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union in West Orange, NJ:

Thanks to all who attended the panel discussion on the new AJL Standards. I think a bunch of interesting ideas were heard. The documentation is now available at http://jewishschoollibraries.pbwiki.com/Presentations

Also, we passed out a survey at the end of the session. We ask that as many school librarians, even those who didn't attend the session, take another look at the standards and complete the survey ONLINE (oooh!!!!!). it will give us some interesting data to discuss, analyze, maybe share in a future AJL Newsletter - and share with the people at AASL who are still developing the final version of these standards. You can find the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=phgDKzHwjVCEFgyTyRPYBw%3d%3d

The "Israel in Comics" Blog

This message is from Steve Bergson:

The "Israel in Comics Blog" can be viewed at http://israelincomics.blogspot.com, it officially went "live" on June 23rd.

It is the official blog of Session 3D and has all of the graphics used (plus many more that couldn't be shown, for lack of time)

Enjoy!

Photos

Booking signing during a break

Booking signing during a break

Shmoozing and networking during the break.

Check out the chef's hat!!