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Proceedings of the 44th Annual Convention
of the Association of Jewish Libraries

Chicago, Illinois, July 5-8, 2009

Compiled by Leah Moskovits © 2009 by the Association of Jewish Libraries ISSN: 1525-4496 All material in this publication subject to copyright by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) may be photocopied for the non-commercial purpose of educational or scientific advancement. Requests for permission to reprint articles should be sent to AJL. Publication of material in the AJL Proceedings does not constitute official endorsement by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Many of the papers presented at the convention are also available as podcasts.

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Table of Contents Cover Title page AJL President’s Report, 2009     Susan Dubin Monday, July 6 Session 1 Freedom of Speech:  Assimilating Slang, Jargon and Other Languages into Current Israeli Hebrew     Yaffa Weisman     Text and PowerPoint Session 3 Teaching the Holocaust through Picture Books     Lisa Silverman The Dark Side of the Web:  Terror on the Internet     Gabriel Weimann Session 4 Freshman Seminar – Budgeting, Acquisitions and Collection Development     Etta Gold. Creating Functional Policies     Sherry Wasserman. Library Automation     Fred Isaac. Collection Development Issues: An Overview Cochin Jewish Women’s Folk Songs in India and Israel      Barbara Johnson      Text and PowerPoint Tuesday, July 7 Session 5 LC Cataloging Update     Lenore Bell, Joan Biella, Edie Creeger, Marina Korenberg, Aaron Taub and Galina Teverovsky     Text     PowerPoint (12 MB file)     Video Mahler, Copland, Bernstein and Rumshinsky?  Reflections on the Yiddish Theater and its Legacy     Zachary Baker Jewish Ethnomusicology     Mark Kligman     Text and Images Session 6 Is “Open” Scholarship a Myth or Reality?  Overview and Fundamental Issues in Scholarly Communication     Mariann Burright     Text and PowerPoint Session 7 A Gift to Biro-Bidjan, Chicago, 1937:  From Despair to New Hope     Nathan Harpaz     Text and Images Session 8 Storytelling in Jewish Libraries:  Share the Meises     Susan Stone The Power of the Buzz:  Libraries and Word of Mouth Marketing     Peggy Barber and Judy Hoffman C.O.T.A.R. Collection of Torah Articles: The Evolution of a Database and its Uses     Yaakov Aronson Awards Banquet Introduction:  Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award     Aileen Grossberg, Chairperson Acceptance Speech, Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award     Nechama Liss-Levinson

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