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Proceedings of the 40th Annual Convention
of the Association of Jewish Libraries


Oakland, California, June 19-22, 2005
Compiled by Joan Biella and Elana Gensler

© 2005 by the Association of Jewish Libraries
ISSN: 1525-4496

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Table of Contents

AJL Fanny Goldstein Award
     Ellen Cole. Presentation of Award
     Libby White. Acceptance Speech

AJL Life Membership Award
     Toby Rossner. Acceptance Speech

Author and Readers
     Rosalind Reisner. Promoting Jewish Authors with Reader's Advisory Techniques

Caring for Rare Book Collections
     Eva-Maria Jansson. Copenhagen Judaica: Old Collections and New Possibilities

Children's Hebrew Books, Videos and Websites: Where Do I Find Them and What's New Out There?
     Janice Levine

Contemporary German-Jewish Writing and Publishing in Germany
     Renate Evers

Digital Initiatives
     
Katherine Kott. The DLF Aquifer Initiative: Toward a Distributed Open Digital Library

Fiction Bonanza: New Adult Jewish Fiction 2004-2005
     Merrily Hart, Julie Moss, Rosalind Reisner, Kate Wenner

Freshman Seminar: An Introduction to Judaica Librarianship
     Part I: Rachel Kamin. Organizing, Classifying & Cataloging Your Library     
     Part II: Ellen Cole. A Librarian's Guide for the Perplexed: Developing an Adult Collection
     Part III: Linda Silver. A Librarian's Guide for the Perplexed: Developing a Children's Collection

Jewish Publishing: International Perspectives
     Rita Saccal. History of Jewish Publishing in Argentina

Judaica in the Golden West
     Saundra Lipton. Buried Treasure in the Golden West North of the 49th Parallel:
Judaic Research Resources in Western Canada

R & S Cataloging Panel
Rachel Simon. Collection Level Cataloging

Sefarad
Pearlstein, Peggy. Ladino Books in the Library of Congress: Bringing Henry V. Besso's Bibliography and Beyond to the Web

Special Collections
     Irene L. Munster. From Norwich to the Pampas and Back: The Archive of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer at Duke University

Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award
     Eric Kimmel. Acceptance Speech

Sydney Taylor Book Award
     Pnina Moed Kass. Acceptance Speech

Why Should Young Adults Read Holocaust Literature Anyway?
     Anne Dublin



 

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