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Volume 28, No.3, February-March 2009 Association of Jewish Libraries N E W S L E T T E R February/March 2009 Volume XXVIII, No. 3 Plan To Attend the AJL Annual Convention in Chicago CHERYL BANKS It’s time to make your plans to attend the 44th annual convention on “Stolen Books: The Third Reich’s Exchange Center and the of the Association of Jewish Libraries in Chicago, July 5 – July 8. Prussian State Library in the years 1933 through 1945.” Thanks to The Chicago Convention Committee has been working very hard AJL member Philip Miller, who spotted an article in Welt Online to make sure that this convention is the best ever. We encourage about the Nazi appropriation of Jewish books, we contacted the you to come to Chicago, watch the fireworks, visit all of the sights, Berlin State Library and Mrs. Schneider-Kempf offered to speak and attend all of the convention sessions. Bring your family and at our convention. make it a summer vacation! As a prologue to Mrs. Schneider-Kempf’s presentation, on Sunday evening, July 5, Professor Peter Hayes will deliver the keynote address. Dr. Hayes is professor of history and German and the Theodore Z. Weiss-Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1980. He is the author or editor of eight books including the prize-winning titles Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era (Cambridge University Press, 1987; new edition, 2000) and Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World (Northwestern University Press, 1991), the recently published From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich (Cambridge/Beck) and the forthcoming Profits and Persecution: German Big Business and the Holocaust (Cambridge/ Beck) as well as of numerous articles and reviews. In 1997-98, he was the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Professor Hayes lectures on corporate complicity in the Holocaust, German big business and the Holocaust, and future views of the Holocaust. All meetings and meals will be held at the Sheraton Chicago We have scheduled over 40 sessions and expect many Hotel and Towers. The hotel is right downtown, on the Chicago exhibitors. Tuesday’s River, two blocks from Lake Michigan. It is easily accessible by luncheon will feature a public transportation from both airports, Midway and O’Hare, gathering of local Chi- and from Union Station (for Amtrak.) Many tourist sights are cago authors. Our di- an easy walk from the hotel—the Art Institute, Grant Park, verse program includes Millennium Park, Spertus Institute, Navy Pier, the Loop, the sessions on cataloging, Newberry Library, Washington Cultural Center, and the Mag- digital resources, Israe- nificent Mile. li film, terrorism and The national organization and local convention committee are the Internet, Jewish well aware of the economic situation in the country, and particu- Chicago, manuscripts larly, in nonprofit organizations. We are being careful to keep and conservation, Yid- our costs as low as possible, and the national organization has dish and Israeli theater, determined that a large amount of money will be budgeted for and Sephardic folklore. convention travel stipends. We want to encourage you to apply for Some sessions will be a stipend, after checking about financial support available from of special interest to your local chapter, so that you can strengthen and broaden your SSC librarians, others professional knowledge and network with your colleagues. There to academic librarians, is no need for anyone not to attend the convention for financial and a vast array of sessions will be invitingly “pareve.” reasons. (See president’s message on the next page.) This year, the city of Chicago will celebrate the centennial of One of the highlights of our convention will be a special the The Plan of Chicago (the Burnham Plan), which was one of the plenary session featuring Barbara Schneider-Kempf, the direc- tor general of the Berlin State Library in Germany, speaking Continued on p. 31 Association of Jewish Libraries Doris Orenstein P.O. Box 1118 President’s Message Teaneck, NJ 07666 SUSAN DU B IN Memorial Fund 212-725-5359, [email protected] YELENA LU C KERT Being president of this organization is like being the ringmas- The AJL Newsletter (Irene Levin- ter in a 500 ring circus. There are so many good things to report! The Doris Orenstein Memorial Wixman z”l, founding editor) is published quarterly by the Even though this is an especially difficult time for libraries and Fund helps our members at- Association of Jewish Libraries librarians, our organization is strong. Because we have been tend their first AJL convention. to inform members about associa- tion activities and issues related conservative in our spending over the years, we are blessed with Funds are usually generated by to Judaica libraries. Receipt of the a healthy bank account. donations from our members. newsletter is one of the benefits of The board and council have decided to increase convention Please think of this fund as you membership. Annual dues are $50 for individuals or institutions. subsidies from $10,000 to $30,000, to encourage attendance at the remember loved ones or com- Chicago Convention, July 5-8, 2009. AJL will underwrite conven- mend others’ achievements or Please send requests for member- tion costs in order to keep the registration fee at last year’s rate simply want to do a mitzvah. ship and dues information to: of $450. The board has also approved $500 for a joint AJL/ALA Laurie Haas P.O. Box 3816 program in Chicago. Recent donations received: Columbus, OH 43210 The Board and Council wrote a letter in support of principles • In memory of Bernard Phone: (614) 864-0299 X133 of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany/ Witt, Carol Witt’s hus- [email protected] World Jewish Restitution Organization. (The letter is printed on band, by the AJL Capital Send adult books for review to: page 51.) We established an advocacy award to honor those who Area Chapter Daniel Scheide S.E. Wimberly Library support their institution’s library. A committee of five— Ronda • In memory of Margot Florida Atlantic University Rose, Liza Stabler, Laurel Wolfson, Leah Moskovitz, and Maureen Berman, by Norma E. 777 Glades Road Boca Raton , FL 33431-6424 Reister—will determine how the award will be made. Regenold 561-297-0519 Constitutional changes were introduced to allow for a desig- Please consider giving to [email protected] nated representative as well as a president to represent chapters this good cause. Send a check Adult Review Editor on the council, and to change the timeframe for write-ins in to: Doris Ornstein Memo- Merrily F. Hart national elections. Details on the proposed changes appear on rial Fund, c/o Yelena Luckert, 5090 Oak Tree Court Ann Arbor, MI 48108 p. 52, and will be voted on at the general membership meeting McKeldin Library, University [email protected] in Chicago. of Maryland, College Park, MD Children and YA Review Editors The accreditation period has been increased from three to 20742. If you have any ques- Linda Silver & Anne Dublin five years, with an interim check to make sure the library’s tions, please call 301-879-7035 [email protected] situation has not changed. A logo for accredited institutions is or send e-mail to yluckert@ [email protected] being designed. umd.edu. General Editor A committee was set up to investigate offering coursework for AJL members can now ap- Libby White 20 Lamplighter Court Judaic librarian certification through the University of Maryland. ply for travel grantss from Baltimore, MD 21208 Thanks to the work of Edith Lubetski and Abraham Rosenberg, the Doris Orenstein Memo- 410-580-1812 [email protected] ten AJL members will present papers at the World Jewish Con- rial Fund. Applicants should gress to be held in Israel in August submit a letter of 500 words or Copy Editing and Page Layout Additional members are needed for the Mentoring, Public fewer, telling why they would Nancy Sack [email protected] Relations, Bibliography Bank and National Convention com- like to attend the convention. mittees. Please volunteer to serve on a committee that piques Letters should include how Advertising Rates your interest. long candidates have been 1 1 Full page $150 7 /2 x 9 /2 The Valuing Libraries Committee was charged with exam- employed in a Judaic library, 5 1 Half-page (vert) 80 3 /8 x 9 /2 1 3 ining our mission and goals and making recommendations for what part of the cost their Half-page (horiz) 80 7 /2 x 4 /4 5 3 Quarter-page 50 3 /8 x 4 /4 ways to move our organization forward. Committee members institutions would pay, their will be reporting on their progress at the convention. We are educational backgrounds, and All ads must be prepaid. Please submit all inquiries, finished copy, negotiating to expand the number of publishers in our new facts about AJL chapters in and checks to: discount program. I am in discussion with Baker and Taylor, H. their area. The letter should be Karen Ulric Solomon Schechter Day School W. Wilson, and Proquest. We have already set up discounts with submitted to the Convention 1418 Pleasant Valley Way Pitspopany, Kar-Ben, and Mackin. If anyone has suggestions for Travel Stipend Committee, c/o West Orange, NJ 07052 973-669-8000 x253 others or contacts, please let me know. Yelena Luckert, at the address [email protected] I am looking forward to greeting you in Chicago! above. For more information and for the application form, AJL Newsletter please go to www.jewishlibrar- February/March 2009 ies.org/ajlweb/scholarships/ Volume XXVIII, No.
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