LC’s Israel and Judaica (IJ) Section Update AJL Conference, Woodland Hills, California Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Haim Gottschalk (
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[email protected] Association of Jewish Libraries Proceedings June 2019 Welcome to the Israel and Judaica Section Update. My name is Aaron Taub, and I am joined by my colleagues Haim Gottschalk, Gail Shirazi, and Galina Teverovsky. Roger Kohn and Yisrael Meyerowitz could not attend the conference and contributed numerous slides and a video segment to this presentation. 1 Israel and Judaica Section Update Agenda • LC General News • In Memoriam • Cataloging Matters • Staff Matters • New Policy on Terminal Periods • Strategic Plan • Other LC Developments • IJ Acquisitions Highlights • PrePub Book Link • Rare Hebrew Children’s Materials • Paul Kor Donation • Policy and Standards Division (PSD) Decisions • Yiddish Posters • Multiples in LCSH • And So Much More! • Jewish hymns • Holocaust deniers • Appendix • • New Subject Headings (e.g. Cataloging Matters Jedwabne) • Hebrew Maps • Jewish-Arab relations (Full • Jewish-Arab Relations (Abstract) Version) • BIBFRAME Update • Determining the Conventional • NAR Queries Name of an Event • Jewish and Israeli Law SubjectAssociation Cataloging of Jewish Libraries Proceedings June 2019 As always, we have a full agenda so we ask that you save your questions and comments until the end. We’ll begin with some general news, and then move into PSD decisions, then cataloging issues and projects, and we’ll end with IJ acquisitions highlights. In the interest of time, the topics in the appendix will not be read today during our presentation but will be included in the proceedings.