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2003
AJL Annual Convention
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A Legacy of Learning: Celebrating Books - Past, Present
& Future
The Association of Jewish Libraries held its annual conference
in Toronto, Canada, on June 15-18, 2003 at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Scholars from numerous disciplines met to share their interests
in Judaica librarianship and related areas
Many papers from the convention are published in the online Proceedings.
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PROGRAM
Sunday, June 15,
2003
9:00 a.m.–noon AJL Board Meeting (breakfast)
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Registration
Noon-3:00 p.m. AJL Council Meeting/working lunch (box lunch)
Noon-5:00 p.m. Exhibits
Open to the public.
Including book signings, artisans, and exhibits by major Jewish publishers
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Meet the Authors Sessions
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. M-1 Meet the Poets
Simcha Simchovitch - The Creative Process of Writing Poetry
Ken Sherman - Problems Facing the Jewish Poet (with readings from The
Well: New and Selected Poems)
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. RLG Jewish Studies Forum
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. M-2 Meet the Authors/Illustrators
James Sturm - Creating a Golem
Richard Ungar - Heaven & Chelm: Writing & Illustrating the Jewish
Folk Tale
Lesley Simpson - On the Writing of The Shabbat Box
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. M-3 Meet the Authors
Cary Fagan - Searching for Authentic Jewish Stories
Paul Brown - On the Writing of Shayna’s Shadows
Vivian Kaplan - On the Writing of Ten Green Bottles
4:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m. M-4 Shula Robin
Poetry reading with musical interlude by reknowned poet Shula Robin
with dramatic performer Gladys Aaron and distinguished oboe player Senya
Trubashnik.
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Meetings
Newcomers Orientation Sylvia Firschein
CARLJS Meeting David Gilner
R&S Cataloging Committee Heidi Lerner CANCELLED
SSC Cataloging Committee Judith Greenblatt
5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Reception at Toronto Reference Library, Atrium
Greetings from Josephine Bryant, chief librarian Toronto Public Library,
and Roch Carrier, national librarian of Canada
7:00 p.m.-9:15 p.m. Dinner and Program
Keynote speaker: Roch Carrier, national librarian of Canada
9:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Committee Meetings
Sydney Taylor Awards Committee Chair: Libby White
Sydney Taylor Manuscript Committee Chair: Rachel Glasser
Chapter Relations Meeting Chair: Toby Rossner
National Convention Committee Chair: Cheryl Banks
Professional Development & Continuing Ed. Committee Chair: Sara
Spiegel
Publicity Committee Chair: Nanette Stahl CANCELLED
Accreditation Committee Chair: Etta D. Gold
Judaica Librarianship Editorial Board Chair: Linda Lerman
Monday, June 16,
2003
6:00 a.m.–6:30 a.m. Early morning walk led by Steven M. Bergson
– Meet in Four Seasons lobby
6:30 a.m.–7:15 a.m. Orthodox Minyan Stanley Nachamie
6:30 a.m.–7:15 a.m. Egalitarian Minyan Jean Lettofsky and Judy Greenblatt
7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration
8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m. Exhibits
8:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. CEU course CANCELLED
Session I
8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
I-1 Freshman Seminar II, Part 1: Developing a Children’s Collection
Rachel Erlich Kamin and Linda Silver
I-2 Rewriting The Holocaust Online: A Discourse Analysis of Holocaust
Denial Web sites Mark Aaron Polger
Lying Lips of Satan: Neo-Nazism and American Popular Culture Henry
Gonshak
This session is sponsored by B'nai Brith Canada
I-3 Jews in Muslim Lands Sarah Carlen
Resources for Research on Jews of Arab Countries Randall C. Belinfante
I-4 Digitizing The American Jewess for the 21st Century Karla Goldman
Building a Virtual Archive on Resources in American Jewish Women's History
Gail Twerski Reimer
The JPS Guide to Jewish Women, 600 B.C.E.-1900 C.E. Cheryl Tallan
I-5 Yeshiva University Implements the VTLS VIRTUA Integrated Library
System Leah Adler
Authority Control: Creating a Policy/Training Syllabus Marcia Goldberg
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Coffee break
Session II
10:30 a.m.–noon
II-1 Freshman Seminar II, Part 2: Developing an Adult Collection Cheryl
Banks
II-2 Teaching Sensitive Materials to Young People: Holocaust & Children's
Literature Kathy Kacer
Anne Frank in Life & Death: Teaching & Learning the Lessons
of the Holocaust Lesley Shore
Responsibility and Choice in Representing the Jewish Experience to the
Wider Community: A Case Study Racelle Weiman
II-3 LC Cataloging Update Lenore Bell, Peter Kearney, Benjamin Fryser
II-4 Facing the Challenges of an Aging Workforce: Succession Planning
Strategies for Libraries Stephen Abram
This session is sponsored by Micromedia Proquest.
II-5 Slavic Judaica Revisited Zachary Baker
Iranian Judaica David Hirsch
12:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m. AJL Awards Luncheon
Life Member Award; Fanny Goldstein Award; Library Accreditation Chair:
TBA
Session III
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
III-1 Freshman Seminar II, Part 3: Acquisition Practices Susan Berson
and Etta Gold
III-2 Gathering Dust, Gaining Value: The Story of the Leo W. Schwarz
Collection of Judaica Elliot Gertel
From Cemetery to Cyberspace: The Riddle of the Holocaust Era Collection
at the University of Capetown Veronica Belling
The John and Molly Pollock Holocaust Collection at Centennial College,
Scarborough, Ontario Kerstin Camenietzki
Muriel Yale Collection of Antique Maps of Eretz Yisrael and Related
Areas Glenn Ferdman
III-3 Art of Poetry Therapy in the Jewish Library Judith Segal
III-4 Teaching Jewish Values Through Literature: A New Curriculum Unit
Anne Dublin, Donna Robins and Myrna Ross
Introducing AJL's New Jewish Valuesfinder Linda Silver
III-5 The Academic Guide to Jewish History: Design and Development of
an Innovative and Authoritative Web Portal Jenny Mendelsohn, Sian
Meikle and Daniel Lovins
This session sponsored by Larry and Linda Levenstein.
3:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Coffee Break
Session IV
3:45 p.m.–4:45 p.m. (1 hour)
IV-1 Freshman Seminar II, Part 4: Cataloging Principles Rachel Glasser
and Rachel Erlich Kamin
IV-2 Canadian Jewish Women’s Experiences of Sexism, Anti-semitism and
Depression Nora Gold
IV-3 Broadcasting Power: Radio Mamlakhtiyut and Democracy in Israel:
1948-1973 Derek Penslar
IV-4 Jewish Presence in Canadian Children's Literature Judi Saltman
IV-5 How to Publish Your Own Book Yehuda Lipsitz
5:00 p.m.– 6:00 p.m The Meyer and Rosaline Feinstein Lecture, sponsored
by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Council of Archives
and Research Libraries in Jewish Studies
Chair: David Gilner
The Digital Library and the Jews Elhanan Adler
9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Ballroom Showing of the film Desperate Hours.
10:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Ballroom Showing of the film Purity.
Tuesday, June
17, 2003
6:00 a.m.–6:30 a.m. Early morning walk led by Steven M. Bergson
– Meet in Four Seasons lobby
6:30 a.m.–7:15 a.m. Orthodox Minyan Stanley Nachamie
6:30 a.m.–7:15 a.m. Egalitarian Minyan Jean Lettofsky and Judy Greenblatt
7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 a.m.–noon Registration
8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Exhibits
8:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. CEU course CANCELLED
Session V
8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
V-1 Jewish Children’s Literature: What’s Hot and What’s Not? The Sydney
Taylor Awards (Part I) Libby White and Committee
V-2 The Otto Schneid Archive of Jewish Art at the University of Toronto:
A Unique Resource for the History of Jewish Art Beween the Two World
Wars Barry Walfish
The Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry: Description and Access
Goldie Sigal
In Good Company: The Jacob M. Lowy Collection at 25 Cheryl Jaffee
V-3 Using Biblical Maps in the Teaching of Tanakh Rabbi Moshe Shulman
Genealogy - Developing Educational Skills Howard Markus
This session has been sponsored by the Albert and Temmy Latner Jewish
Public Library of Toronto in memory of its former director, Rabbi Zigmund
Wolkenstein z"tzl, 1st president of the Association of Jewish Libraries'
Ontario Chapter.
V-4 CANCELLED
Organization and Classes in Historic Judaica Catalogues Heidi Lerner
and Seth Jerchower
Non-Hebrew Languages in Hebrew Script Joan Biella
Hebrew Name Authorities in Romanized Cataloging Yossi Galron
V-5 Beyond Maus : How to Expand Your Collection of Holocaust Comics
and Graphic Novels Steven M. Bergson
The Holocaust as Represented in Popular Culture Henry Gonshak
This session is sponsored by the Birnboim Family in memory of Morris
Joel Silverberg z"l.
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
Session VI
10:30 a.m.–noon
VI-1 Jewish Children’s Literature: What’s Hot and What’s Not? The Sydney
Taylor Awards (Part II) Libby White and Committee
VI-2 Jewish National & University Library: The Reflection of the
Past, Plans for the Future Rosalind Duke
Digitization of the Early Hebrew Press Elhanan Adler
VI-3 Building Media Relationships Susan Sommers
VI-4 A Business of Jewish Culture in Victorian Montreal: Abraham de
Sola's Acquisition of Isaac Leeser's Publications Richard Menkis
The Early History of Yiddish Book Publishing in Canada Rebecca Margolis
Yiddish Books in the Canadian Hinterland: Some Collectors and Collections
in Western Canada Faith Jones
VI-5 Scripture on the Silver Screen Adele Reinhartz
12:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Lunch
Buddhism and American Judaism: Interreligious Enrichment, or a 'Twain
Crash?
Featuring Nathan Katz
Session VII
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
VII-1 Invisible Jewish Web: What You Can't Find On Google Diane Romm
CANCELLED
VII-2 Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives Janice Rosen
The State of Judaica Collections and Archives in Montreal Ron Finegold
The Ontario Jewish Archives Howard Markus, Ellen Scheinberg
VII-3 Yiddish Folksongs : A Mirror of Life Naomi Bell
VII-4 Israel and the Middle East: Context and Perspective Louis Greenspan
VII-5 Fiction Bonanza: New Adult Jewish Fiction in 2002 and 2003 Rosalind
Reisner
Making the Written Word Acceptable to All the People of the Book Pearl
Lam
This session is sponsored by Mrs. Harriet Rice and Mr. Edward Rice (chair,
Ontarians with Disabilities Act Sub-Committee of the League for Human
Rights of B'nai Brith Canada)
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
Session VIII
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. (1 hour)
VIII-1 The Image of the Jew in Film and Television: Realities and Fantasies
Shlomo Schwartzberg
VIII-2 25 New Quick & Easy Lessons for Grade K-5 Lisa Silverman
VIII-3 Whispers of Hope: Whispers that an Educator Can Find in Israeli
Historical Biographies that Present the Arab-Israeli Conflict Malli
Holoshitz
VIII-4 Translations of the Bible & Biblical Commentaries: What’s
Going On? Rabbi Yitzchak Witty
This session is sponsored by the the Birnboim Family in memory of Menashe
& Shifra Birnboim z"l.
VIII-5 The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: A Canadian Anti-Catholic
Forgery (& Other Libels Against Catholics and Jews) Kathy Shaidle
VIII-6 Keeping a Chapter Alive and Healthy Heidi Estrin, Etta D.
Gold and Schlomit Schwarzer
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Automation User Groups (Athena & Winnebago,
CASPR, Follett, Surpass, Alexandria, SirsMandarin)
7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Awards Dinner and Closing Banquet
10:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Optional Additional Committee Meetings, as needed.
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
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6:00 a.m.–6:30 a.m. Early morning walk led by Steven M. Bergson
– Meet in Four Seasons lobby
6:30 a.m.–7:15 a.m. Orthodox Minyan Stanley Nachamie
6:30 a.m.–7:15 a.m. Egalitarian Minyan Jean Lettofsky and Judy Greenblatt
7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Meetings
SSC Division meeting
R&S Division meeting
10:15 a.m.–noon General Membership Meeting Chair: Pearl Berger
Noon–1:00 p.m. Box lunch pickup
Noon–1:15 p.m. Council Meeting
1:15 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Convention Wrap-Up Meeting
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Optional Tour of Jewish Toronto Conducted under
the auspices of the Toronto Jewish Archives
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Optional Tour of the Beth Tzedec Helene and Dennis
Reuben Museum - permanent collection (including the world-famous Cecil
Roth collection and an outstanding Ketubbot collection)
Friday, June 20, 2003
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9:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Special joint AJL/ALA/CLA program at ALA/CLA Annual
Conference: The Star in the Maple Leaf: Canadian Jewish Resources and
Literature
Chair: Rabbi Yitzchak Witty
Cheryl Jaffee – The Jacob M. Lowy Collection of Rare Hebraica and Judaica
at the National Library of Canada
Aaron Lansky - The National Yiddish Book Center
Eva Raby - Jewish Public Library, Montreal, Quebec
Goldie Sigal - McGill University Libraries
Barry Walfish - University of Toronto Library
The AJL annual convention is held
in a different location each year.
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