Association of Jewish Libraries
34th Annual Convention
June 20-23, 1999
Program Schedule
SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1999
Registration 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. Camino Foyer
Exhibits open 1:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Camino Hall
Hospitality Room 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Madrid Room
AJL Board Meeting 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Granada A
AJL Council Meeting, Working Lunch 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m. Granada A
Walking Tour of the Old Boca Resort, conducted by the Boca Raton Historical Society
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Tour will leave from the hotel lobby.
CEU, Part One 3:15-5:30 p.m.
Barcelona D
Lilmod U'le-Lamed: Jewish Short Stories, To Learn and To Teach
Michlean Amir, Toby Rossner, Linda Silver
Click here for CEU information and a registration form.
Committee Meetings
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Library Accreditation, Chair: Rita Frischer Granada B
CARLJS Meeting, Chair: Zachary M. Baker & Jerome Chanes Granada D
Day School Librarians, Chair: Ronda Rose Barcelona A
Short Story Award, Chair: Hazel Karp Barcelona C
Cataloging Committee, Chair: Heidi G. Lerner Granada A
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
RLG Members Meeting, Chair: John Eilts Granada B
Chapter Relations, Chairs: Ronda Rose and Etta D. Gold Granada D
New Members Orientation, Chair: Sylvia Firschein Barcelona A
Dinner 6:30 - 8:15 p.m.
Great Hall South
Chair: Schlomit Schwarzer, Caribbean Center for Advanced Studies
Keynote Address: "From Bialystok to Boca: Jewish Genealogy and Jewish Education," Mona Freedman Morris, President Emeritus, Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County, Author of
Scattered Seeds: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy.
Awards presentation
AJL Member Recognition
Post Dinner Committee Meetings, 8:30 p.m.
Sydney Taylor Book Award Meeting, Chair: Ellen Cole Granada B
Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award, Chair: Paula Sandfelder Barcelona A
National Convention Committee, Chairs: Susan Dubin and Jean Lettofsky Granada A
AJL Participation in IFLA 2000, Chair: Edith Lubetski Barcelona C
Library Education Committee, Chair: Adaire Klein Barcelona B
Publicity Committee, Chair: TBA Granada C
MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1999
Orthodox Minyan 7:00 a.m. Granada A
Egalitarian Minyan 7:00 a.m.Granada C
Breakfast 7:00 - 8: 30 a.m. Great Hall South
Early morning walk 7:30 a.m.Meet at Madrid Room
Registration 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Camino Foyer
Exhibits open 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Camino Hall
Hospitality Room 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Madrid Room
In keeping with long-standing AJL tradition, today we invite you to wear
your favorite Judaica/Hebrew T-shirt to lunch!
Monday Program Sessions #1: 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
1-a Marketplace of Ideas Shuk
Seville Room
"Unique Fingerplays for Preschoolers," Amy Weisman, Nadel Center for Early Childhood Education, Boca Raton, FL
"Using Jewish Topics to Teach Reference Skills," Susan Dubin, Valley Beth Shalom Day School, Encino, CA
"AJL Accreditation," Gloria Jacobs, Toronto Public Library
"Videos of Jewish Interest" Lee Haas, Jewish Federation of Nashville
"Friends of the Library," Edythe Wolf, Jewish Federation of Omaha
"Tzofim Students Become Israeli Scouts," Eunice Morris, Barry Ira Graff School for Living Judaism, Boca Raton, FL
"Mother/Daughter Book Clubs," Laurie Naturman & Barbara Davis, Temple Beth Am, Miami, FL
"Jewish Interest Bibliographies"
"MASORET Jewish Heritage Enrichment Series," Marilyn Nachman, Education Commission, Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County
"The Chapter Kit," Ronda Rose
"Making Judaism Come Alive Through Storytelling," Ellen Caplan, The Storytelling Connection, Boca Raton, FL
"Great Books Jewish Literature Series," Donald Smith, The Great Books Foundation
"What is Kabbalah and How Can It Improve Our Daily Lives?," Rabbi Yigal Kurnovsky, The Kabbalah Centre, Boca Raton, FL
1-b Israeli Hebrew Cataloging and the Global Village
Granada B
Chair: Yossi Galron, Ohio State University
"Problems, Issues, and the Israeli MARC Committee," Susan Lazinger, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Solutions, Compromises, and the Israeli Inter-university Network," Elhanan Adler, Israel Center for Digital Information Services
1-c Timely Judaic Topics in Academe
Barcelona D
Chair: Paul Hamburg, University of Miami
"Torah Codes," Aaron Meyerowitz, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
"Jewish-American Literature and the Multi-cultural Curriculum," Andrew Furman, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
"Platonic Resonance in Cynthia Ozick's The Puttermesser Papers," Carol S. Gould, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
1-d From the Palms to the Pampas: Jews of the Caribbean and Latin America
Barcelona B
Chair: Susan Freiband, University of Puerto Rico
"From the Pale to the Pampas: Current Jewish Periodicals in Latin America"
"Part 1: Argentina," Rita Fleischer de Saccal, Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires
"Part 2: The Rest of Latin America," David Hirsch, UCLA
"The Curaçao Jews and Their Contribution to the Island Community," Ena Dankmeijer, Mikve Israel, Curaçao
"The New Christian Founders of Jewish America: Iberia to the Carribean and Beyond," Libby K. White, Beth Israel Congregation, Owings Mills, MD
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break/Visit Exhibits Camino Hall
Monday Program Sessions #2: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
2-a The Holocaust: Reality and Metaphor in Literature
Barcelona D
Chair: Annette Goldsmith, Miami-Dade Public Library
"Patterns of Persecution," Sonia Levitin
"Picture Books About the Holocaust: How Young is Too Young?" Rich Michelson
2-b Library of Congress Hebraica/Judaica Cataloging Update
Barcelona A
Chair: Rachel Simon, Princeton University
"Developments in Subject Cataloging and Classification," Lenore Bell, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
"Developments in Descriptive Cataloging," Joan Biella, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
2-c Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba
Barcelona B
Chair: Phyllis Robarts, University of Miami
"Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba," Robert M. Levine, University of Miami, Coral Gables & Mark Szuchman, Florida International University, Miami
2-d Great Books Jewish Literature Series Workshop
Granada C
Chair: Esther Nussbaum, Jewish Book Council, NY
"Great Books Jewish Literature Series," Donald C. Smith, Great Books Foundation
Lunch 12:00 Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Great Hall South
Chair: William Miller, Florida Atlantic University
"The Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library," Aaron Lansky, President, National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA
Monday Program Sessions #3: 1:45 - 3:15 p.m.
3-a Creating Folklore and Midrash
Barcelona A
Chair: Cheryl Banks, North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, Highland Park, IL
"Jewish Folklore: A Global Perspective," Nina Jaffe
"Writing & Illustrating Midrash: What Really Happened and How Everything Looked," Mordicai Gerstein
"Recreating Folklore and Midrash," Barbara Diamond Goldin
3-b The Spielberg Digitization Project: The Technical Side
Barcelona D
Chair: Elliot Gertel, University of Michigan
Aaron Lansky, President, National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst
3-c The NACO Funnel Project After Five Years
Granada C
Chair: Shoshana Seidman, University of Chicago
"Five Years of Hebraica NACO," Marcia Goldberg, Gratz College, Philadelphia
"NACO After Five Years: the Experience of Yeshiva University," Marlene Schiffman, Yeshiva University, NY
"The Hebrew NACO Funnel Project After 5 Years," Caroline Holt, UCLA
3-d Don't Do-It-Yourself! Hire a Library Consultant
Granada B
Chair: Phillip Miller, HUC-JIR, NY
"You and a Consultant: A Team," Herbert C. Zafren, HUC-JIR, Cincinnati
"Starting from Scratch: The Building of a Yeshiva High School Library," Diane Romm, Uniondale School District, NY &
Joyce Levine, Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, NY
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break/Visit Exhibits Camino Hall
Monday Program Sessions #4: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
4-a Myer & Rosaline Feinstein Foundation Lecture, sponsored by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture/Council of Archives and Research Libraries in Jewish Studies
Great Hall North
Co-Chairs: Zachary Baker, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NY & Jerome Chanes, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, NY
"Some Notable Biographers I Have Known," Dr. Jacob Kabakoff, Professor Emeritus, Lehman College, City University of New York
CEU, Part Two: 3:15 - 5:15 p.m.
Barcelona D
Lilmod U'le-Lamed: Jewish Short Stories, To Learn and To Teach
Michlean Amir, Toby Rossner, Linda Silver
Click here for CEU information and a registration form.
Monday Tours 5:30 p.m.
The Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collections, Florida Atlantic University S.E. Wimberly Library
The Jewish Education Commission of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County
Buses leave from the Camino Circle at 5:30 p.m. and return to Boca Resort & Club at 8:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1999
Orthodox Minyan 7:00 a.m. Granada A
Egalitarian Minyan 7:00 a.m.Granada C
Breakfast 7:00 - 8: 30 a.m. Great Hall South
Early morning walk 7:30 a.m.Meet at Madrid Room
Registration 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Camino Foyer
Exhibits open 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Camino Hall (final day!)
Hospitality Room 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Madrid Room
Tuesday Program Sessions #5: 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
5-a The Librarian as Teacher
Barcelona A
Chair: Susan Dubin, Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, CA
"Jewish Values as Reflected in the Literature," Rita Berman Frischer, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, CA and Hazel Karp, Greenfield Hebrew Academy, Atlanta, GA
"What's Jewish About the Rainforest?: Integrating General and Judaic Studies in the Day School," Marion Stein, Yeshiva Har Torah, NY
5-b Jewish Education in an Electronic Environment
Granada B
Chair: Barbara Leff, Library Consultant, Los Angeles, CA
"Judaic and Hebraic Software: Tools for the Jewish Library" Rachel Erlich, Temple Israel, West Bloomfield, MI & Irv Goldfein, Infomedia Judaica Ltd.
5-c Judaica at the Community College
Barcelona C
Chair: Idelle Rudman, Touro College, Brooklyn, NY
"A Look at Montgomery College," Harriet Reiter, Montgomery County Community College, Rockville, MD
"Judaic Studies at Florida's Public Community Colleges: Less & More Than Meets the Eye," Nancy Rosen, Florida-Israel Institute, Davie, FL
"Jewish Studies: The Community College Connection," Brian C. Kelley, Palm Beach Community College
5-d The Librarian as Curator: Exhibits in Libraries and Libraries in Museums
Granada D
Chair: Cheryl Jaffee, National Library of Canada
"Exhibits: An Important Component of Judaica Librarianship," Nanette Stahl, Yale Universtiy
"Building a New Library Around an Old Collection: The Example of the Library of the Jewish Museum of Vienna," Ronald Grosz, Jewish Museum Vienna Library
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break/Visit Exhibits Camino Hall
Tuesday Program Sessions #6: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
6-a Using Video As A Teaching Tool
Barcelona B
Chair: Sally Brown, Congregation Tifereth Israel, Columbus, OH
"Viewing Israeli Society: A Taste of the Life and History of a Maturing Nation Through Its Films," Michlean Amir, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Rockville, MD
"Perspectives of the Holocaust through Video," Laurie Herman, Coalition for Jewish Learning, Milwaukee, WI
6-b Sensitive Issues in Children's Education
Granada B
Chair: Heidi Estrin, Congregation B'nai Israel, Boca Raton, FL
"The Kindest Stories: Looking at Bibliotherapy," Lee Sprince & Myrna Steinberg, Broward County Libraries, FL
"Dealing with Religious Diversity," Margie Zeskind & Sheila Silverberg, CAJE, co-authors of I Went to My Cousin's Crispening
6-c How I Came To Write This Book
Granada C
Chair: Fred Isaac, Temple Sinai, Oakland, CA
"Two Cents and a Milk Bottle," Lee Chai'ah Batterman
"Grandpa's Gamble," Rich Michelson
"The Singing Mountain," Sonia Levitin
6-d ATLA/Judaic Collections in Non-Jewish Settings
Barcelona C
Chair: Annette Botnick, Rabbinical Assembly
"An Overview of Barry University Library's Judaica Collection," Philip O'Neill, Barry University, Miami
"Judaica Materials at a New Seminary Library," John Budrew, South Florida Center for Theological Studies, Miami
"AJL and the American Theological Library Association: the Search for a Common Path," Daniel Rettberg, Emory University, Atlanta
"An Example of Dual Membership in ATLA & AJL," Arthur Quinn, St. Vincents's Seminary, Boynton Beach, FL
6-e Southern Exposure: Encounters with Dixie Landslayt
Barcelona D
Chair: Rick Burke, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA
"Speaking Yiddish in Y'all Country," Stella Suberman
"The Israelization of Miami, Reform Judaism and American Jewry," Henry Green, University of Miami, Coral Gables
"The Last Resort: Photographs of the Old World Jews of South Beach," Gary Monroe, Daytona Beach Community College
Lunch 12:00 Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Great Hall South
Presentation of R&S awards
Chair: David Hirsch, UCLA
The Bibliography Award will be presented by Peggy Pearlstein who will accept on behalf of Isaac Goldberg for Solomon ibn Gabirol: a bibliography of his poems in translation (Washington, D.C: Word Works, 1998)
The Reference Award will be presented by Robert Singerman to Zachary Baker on behalf of Fruma Mohrer and Marek Webb for Guide to the YIVO Archives (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
Presentation of SSC Awards
Chair: Paula Sandfelder, Information & Software Associates, Dunwoody, GA
The Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award goes to
June E. Nislick of Wykoff, NJ for Zayda Was a Cowboy
Presentation of Short Story Award
Tuesday Program Sessions #7: 1:45 - 3:15 p.m.
7-a Jewish Children's Literature: What's Hot? What's Not?*
Seville Room
Chair: Kathleen Clotfelter, Donna Klein Jewish Academy, Boca Raton, FL
*session will run until 4:00
The Sydney Taylor Award Committee:
Ellen Cole, Chair Sydney Taylor Award Committee, Isaiah Levine Library, Los Angeles, CA
Etta D. Gold, Temple Beth Am, Miami, FL
Sandy Gottesman, Temple Beth Tikvah, Green Acres, FL
Naomi Morse, White Oak Community Library, Silver Spring, MD
Linda Silver, Ratner Media & Technology Center, Cleveland, OH
Libby White, Beth Israel Congregation, Owings Mills, MD
Special Guest: Jo Taylor Marshall, daughter of the late Sydney Taylor of blessed memory
The Sydney Taylor Award Winners:
The Sydney Taylor Award for Younger Readers goes to:
Nine Spoons by Marci Stillerman, illustrated
by Pesach Gerber. (HaChai Publishers, 1998)
Honor Books in the Younger Readers category are:
On The Wings Of Eagles by Jeffrey Schrier (Milbrook Press, 1998)
You Never Know: A Legend Of The Lamed Vovniks by Francine Prose, illustrated by Mark Podwal (Greenwillow, 1998)
Queen Esther Saves Her People by Rita Golden Gelman, illustreated by Frane Lessac (Scholastic, 1998)
The Magic Of Kol Nidre by Bruce Siegel, illustrated by Shelley Haas (Kar-Ben Copies, 1998)
The Sydney Taylor Award for Older Readers goes to:
Stones In Water by Donna Jo Napoli (Dutton, 1997)
Honor Books in the Older Readers category are:
No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel (Greenwillow, 1998)
Treasure In The Tiny Blue Tin by Dede Fox Ducharme (Texas Christian University Press, 1998)
The Singing Mountain by Sonia Levitin (Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998)
7-b Indexing and Reference Works
Barcelona A
Chair: Aviva Astrinsky, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania
"Indexing Current Jewish Periodicals," Morton J. Merowitz, University at Buffalo, SUNY
"The Structures of Early Hebrew Reference Books: Canonical, Alphabetical, Classified," Bella Hass Weinberg, St. Johns University, NY
7-c From the Mouth of the Turia to the Wadis:
Unique Jewish Communities of the Mediteranean
Granada B
Chair: Robert Singerman, University of Florida
"The Last Jews of Libya," Vivienne Roumani-Denn, UC Berkeley
"Non-orthodox Jewish Movements in Contemporary Spain," Alba Toscano, Sinagoga La Javura, Spain
7-d Rare Books/Unique Images: Judaica Collections of South Florida
Granada D
Chair: Leonard Gold, Dorot Cheif Librarian, Jewish Division, NYPL, retired
"Rare Books/Unique Images at Florida Atlantic University," Arthur H. Jaffe, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
"Rare Judaica from the Collections of Broward County Library's Bienes Center for the Literary Arts," James Findlay, Bienes Center, Broward County Library
"Hebrew Book Art in the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry," Paul Hamburg, University of Miami, Coral Gables
3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break/Visit Exhibits Camino Hall
Tuesday Program Sessions #8: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
8-a Bibliographic Resources on Jewish Women
Granada D
Chair: Phyllis Holman Weisbard, University of Wisconsin
"Creating a U.S. Women's History Guide to the Collections at the Library of Congress: The Jewish Angle," Peggy Pearlstein, Library of Congress
"The Jewish Women's Archive: An Archive for the 21st Century," Gail T. Reimer, Jewish Women's Archive
8-b Issues from the Period of the Shoah
Barcelona A
Chair: David Gilner, President of the Association of Jewish Libraries; HUC-Cincinatti
"Second Generation Voices: Representing the Shoah in the Writings and Films of Sons and Daughters of Survivors," Alan Berger, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
"FDR: Friend or Enemy of the Jews?" Rita Botwinick, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
"The Uniqueness of the Shoah in the Jewish Thought of Fackenheim, Berkovits, Rubenstein, Buber, and Arendt," David Levy, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
8-c Current Technical Issues in the Library
Granada B
Chair: Bonnie Marshak, Nova Southeastern University
"Unicode Support in Integrated Library Systems," Ari Palttala, VTLS Inc.
"Collection Development into the 21st Century," Lia Hemphill, Nova Southeastern University
8-d Gifted Hands: Jewish Artisans, Ornaments and Beads
Barcelona D
Chair: Elsie Leviton, Temple Israel, Palm Beach, FL
"Using Gifted Hands as a Discussion Guide," Lois Rose Rose, Los Angeles, CA
"Creativity and the Jews," Samuel Kurinsky, New York, NY
CEU, Part Three: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Granada A
Lilmod U'le-Lamed: Jewish Short Stories, To Learn and To Teach
Michlean Amir, Toby Rossner, Linda Silver
Click here for CEU information and a registration form.
Special Interest and Committee Meetings 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
RLIN Users Meeting, Chair: Rick Burke Granada C
Day School Libraries Barcelona A
Synagogue Libraries Barcelona C
Center Libraries Barcelona B
Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award Committee Granada B
National Convention Committee Granada A
The Five Colleges Granada D
Reception and Book Signing 6:00 p.m. Great Hall North
Entertainment provided by the Junior and Senior Choirs from the Hebrew Academy in Margate, FL
Banquet 7:00 p.m. Great Hall South
Entertainment provided by Howard Stein
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1999
Orthodox Minyan 7:00 a.m. Granada A
Egalitarian Minyan 7:00 a.m.Granada C
Breakfast 7:00 - 8: 30 a.m. Great Hall South
Early morning walk 7:30 a.m.Meet at Madrid Room
R&S Division Meeting 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Granada B-C
Chair: Rick Burke, R&S President
SSC Division Meeting 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Barcelona B-C-D
Chair: Cheryl Banks, SSC President
Break 10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
General Membership Meeting 10:30 - 12:00 Noon
Great Hall North
Chair: David Gilner, AJL President
Lunch 12:00 Noon Great Hall South
Tour 1:00 - 4:00p.m. Meet at Madrid Room
Boca Raton Private Collections in Judaica
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