Association of Jewish Libraries 2024 Conference San Diego

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Association of Jewish Libraries 2024 Conference San Diego

4:30pm PDT

AJL Board Meeting Harborview Room

5:30pm PDT

AJL Board & Council Dinner Harborview Room

6:15pm PDT

AJL Council Meeting Harborview Room

7:00pm PDT

Newcomers' Welcome Harborview RoomHeidi Rabinowitz Meet & Greet Hotel Lobby & Bayside BarGail Shirazi

8:30pm PDT

Hospitality Suite Open Harborview Room (Fifth Floor)

8:00am PDT

Registration Desk Open Prefunction Area outside Ballroom

8:30am PDT

Breakfast Bayside Ballroom

9:00am PDT

SCHED Conference App Demo Bayside BallroomLinda Roth • Yahm Levin

9:30am PDT

Session I -- OCLC Update CabrilloCynthia Whitacre • Tali Winkler Session I -- Provenance I: Communities of Practice and Next Steps San Diegan/PresidioMichelle Margolis Session I -- From Reactive to Proactive: Supporting Jewish Creators and Curators with PJ Library Point LomaPatrick Coyle • Chana Stiefel • Alli Thresher

10:00am PDT

Exhibit Hall Open Exhibit Hall

11:00am PDT

Keynote Address and Lunch: “Memory in the Archive: The Many Lives of Historical Material” Bayside BallroomTessy Schlosser Presburger • Michelle Margolis

1:00pm PDT

Exhibit Hall Open Exhibit Hall

1:15pm PDT

Session II -- Jewish Collection Building from Around the World San Diegan/PresidioElizabeth Vernon • Ellen Drucker-Albert • Tamara Kohn • Elliot H. Gertel Session II -- See, Do, Teach: Real World Ideas for Your Library Point LomaSidura Ludwig • Susan Helen Dubin • Judy Petersen • Elysa Keshen • Kathryn Hall, M.D. Session II -- Uplifting Mizrahi and Sephardic Voices CabrilloCambria Gordon • Shanah Khubiar • Annette Y Goldsmith

2:45pm PDT

Break --

3:00pm PDT

Session III -- Incunabula to Google: New Ways of Mapping Access Point LomaHaim Gottschalk • Daniel Stuhlman • Bella Hass Weinberg • Marlene Schiffman Session III -- The New York Public Library’s Jewish Resources: Expanding the Potential San Diegan/PresidioAmanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel • Lyudmila Sholokhova • Michelle McCarthy-Behler • Zachary Baker Session III -- Roundtables for Schools, Synagogues, Centers, and Public Libraries (SSCPL) Bayside BallroomRebecca Levitan

4:30pm PDT

Break --

4:44pm PDT

Session IV -- Can You See Me Now? Middle Grade Fiction for Contemporary Jewish Kids Point LomaStacy Nockowitz • Deborah Lakritz • Noa Nimrodi • Jessica Fink

4:45pm PDT

Session IV -- Library of Congress Israel and Judaica Section Update CabrilloHaim Gottschalk • Jeremiah Aaron Taub • Gail Shirazi • Abraham Asher Lewis Session IV -- Book Club Facilitators' Roundtable CabrilloLivia Thompson • Sarah Feldman • Stacey Weinberg

6:00pm PDT

Pizza Dinner Bayside Ballroom

7:30pm PDT

Movie Screening: To the Ends of the Earth: A Portrait of Jewish San Diego Point LomaIsaac Artenstein • Bill Lawrence • Joellyn Zollman, Ph. D • Denise Ross Hospitality Suite Open Harborview Room (Fifth Floor)

7:30am PDT

Breakfast Bayside Ballroom

8:00am PDT

Book Discussion: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Bayside BallroomPaula Breger (she/her)

8:30am PDT

Exhibit Hall Open Exhibit Hall Registration Desk Open Prefunction Area outside Ballroom

9:00am PDT

Session V -- Genealogy Resources for Libraries CabrilloWynne Weiss • Roberta Berman • Denise Ross • Schelly Talalay Dardashti • Jane Rothstein Session V -- Stamped on History: Identification, Discovery and Dissemination of Nazi-era Looted Books San Diegan/PresidioLou Hartman • Elaine Mael • Rachel Greenblatt • Ari Kleinman • David Fasman Session V -- Recommended Recent & Forthcoming Jewish Children’s and Young Adult Books Point LomaHeidi Rabinowitz • Talya Sokoll • Rebecca Levitan • Arlene Ratzabi

10:30am PDT

Break --

10:45am PDT

Division Meeting -- Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections (RAS) San Diegan/PresidioJeremiah Aaron Taub Division Meeting -- Schools, Synagogues, Centers, and Public Libraries (SSCPL) Point LomaRebecca Levitan

11:30am PDT

AJL General Membership Meeting and Installation of the 2024–2026 Board Point LomaMichelle Margolis

12:30pm PDT

Lunch and the Presentation of the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Bayside BallroomRachel Leket-Mor • Gail Shirazi

1:30pm PDT

Break --

2:00pm PDT

Session VI -- One of a Kind: The Life of Sydney Taylor Point LomaRichard Michelson • Jo Taylor Marshall • Laura Schutzman Session VI -- Collecting "A Web of Narratives and Dispersion" CabrilloYahm Levin • Gabriel Mordoch • Sharon Horowitz Session VI -- Introducing the Database of Recorded Jewish Music San Diegan/PresidioJeff Janeczko • Mark Kligman • Danielle Stein • Daniel Scheide

3:00pm PDT

Meet the 2024 Sydney Taylor Award Winners Point LomaAviva Rosenberg • Elana K. Arnold • Tziporah Cohen • Richard Ho • Joshua S. Levy • Mari Lowe • Susan Lynn Meyer • Deke Moulton • Noa Nimrodi • Aden Polydoros • Lynn Scurfield • Neal Shusterman • Elissa Brent Weissman

3:45pm PDT

Session VII -- Holocaust and Jewish Collections and Educational Resources CabrilloKinga Bloch • Lital Beer • David Schlitt • Lenore Bell Session VII -- The Dangers and Possibilities of Technology, AI, and Digital Media San Diegan/PresidioMax Daniel • Leo Lazar • Olga Potap • Eitan Kensky

6:00pm PDT

Book Signing with AJL Award Winners & Presenters Prefunction Area outside BallroomRivka Yerushalmi

6:30pm PDT

Awards Banquet Bayside BallroomRebecca Levitan • Jeremiah Aaron Taub

9:00pm PDT

Hospitality Suite Open Harborview Room (Fifth Floor) Student and Young Professionals Happy Hour Bayside BarLenore Bell • Sean Boyle Happy Hour -- Jewish Kidlit Mavens Facebook Group Bayside Bar

7:30am PDT

Breakfast & Meet Your AJL Chapter Bayside BallroomHeidi Rabinowitz

8:30am PDT

Session VIII -- Recommended Reads from the AJL Jewish Fiction Award Committee Point LomaSarah Feldman • Rena Citrin • Dina Herbert • Paula Breger (she/her) Registration Desk Open Prefunction Area outside Ballroom

9:00am PDT

Session VIII -- The National Library of Israel Update San Diegan/PresidioChaim Meir Neria • Lital Beer Session VIII -- We Contain Multitudes: Intersectionality in Jewish Books CabrilloEmily Barth Isler • Chris Baron • Arthur A. Levine • Emi Watanabe Cohen • Behrman House/Apples and Honey Press

10:30am PDT

Break --

10:45am PDT

Session IX -- Echoes Across Time: Researching the History of Collections San Diegan/PresidioDiane Mizrachi, Ph.D. • Yoram Bitton • Nadav Sharon • Arthur Kiron Session IX -- Uniting Together: Using Universal Jewish Themes, Values and Mitzvot Across the Calendar Point LomaLiza Wiemer • Michal Babay • Lisa Gerin • Lauren Kerstein • Charlotte Offsay • Ellen Leventhal • Martha Simpson

12:30pm PDT

Lunch & Feinstein Lecture: “The Distortion of Knowledge on Wikipedia” Bayside BallroomShira Klein • Sean Boyle

2:30pm PDT

Optional Tour Meet in Hotel Lobby