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WELCOME TO AJLSC...  Learn at your convenience - sign up now for courses and
workshops to maintain and improve your skills and knowledge. Suzi
Dubin has alerted us to these current ONLINE offerings - links are on
our Education page:• Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA, offers 4 continuing education courses: "Reading Instruction and Children's Books," "The Tech Savvy Booktalker," "The Technology Enhanced Library Professional," and "Sharing Poetry with Children." October 6 through Nov. 14, 2008. • InfoPeople offers library programming, digital preservation, web searching, etc. starting in August. • Linworth Publishing offers Webinars (Web seminars) in library and education practices, starting in Fall 2008. Then, too, AJL's NYMA (New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of AJL) has put online its Cataloging Workshop presentation. And, the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles schedules many professional development workshops. Finally, UCLA's Friday Forums are scheduled for August and November. See Calendar page. New! Keep connected to AJL and new
resources the easy
way... Our own Susan
Dubin, now AJL President, has started a blog - to stay in touch
with AJL members, et al. Just go to the AJL website (www.JewishLibraries.org) and
click on "Read the new AJL
Blog People of the Books.
Suzi's blogs include links to important resources and documents.
You can even subscribe so that her blog comes to you automatically via
email.The 2008 AJL
Convention is over, but you can still enjoy some of it on the convention blog.
Also, note Steve Bergson's presentation (commentary and photos of
comics) - "From Tintin to
Waltz with Bashir: Israel and Israelis in Comic Books, Comic Strips,
and Graphic Novels." 2008 Sydney
Taylor Book Awards
for younger readers, older readers, and teens, announced by AJL.
See press
release for winners - titles with annotations.
See Sydney Taylor page
on AJL website for list of winners, honor winners, and notable
books. Click
here for a special video announcement of the awards. NEW! This
extraordinary and valuable online
AJL resource is now available in a convenient print edition: The Jewish
Values Finder: A Guide to Values in Jewish Children's Literature by Linda R. Silver, Neal Schuman,
publisher. Pbk. 2008. 6 x 9, 290pp, $55.00. See description. AJL members may use a special
order form to
purchase it at a 10% discount from the publisher. All others may order it directly from the publisher - Neal Schuman Publishers.
NEW WEBSITE FEATURE -- Check Calendar
-- Previous AJLSC Events for summary of past AJLSC programs,
including links to resources
and photos. Jewish
Library Blogs (websites on which an individual or group of
users produces an ongoing narrative - definition source: Wikipedia). Two
AJL members have compiled lists of Jewish Library Blogs from AJL
members. Check them for lots of
current information about books, resources, awards, reviews, opinions,
news, etc.Check out our Education page for online classes - besides
onsite classes. Library
and/or School Conferences -- see presentations and/or handouts
on our Resources
& Links page - Also see AJL Chapters -
Workshops for print materials, Power Point presentations, and audio
presentations.Standards and
Guidelines for Strong School Libraries, with bookmarks and
active hyperlinks, is now available for free from the California School Library Association.Worth
reading! New
research study
regarding the importance of school libraries -- to share with your decision-makers -- your
administrators, teachers, boards.NEW book/media lists from AJL's Greater
Cleveland
Chapter recommended books and DVDs for children
and adults
- on the
AJL Website.New from AJL:
Google videos of the 2006 AJL Freshman Seminars on Beginning Judaica
Librarianship - appropriate for synagogue and day school
libraries - presented at the AJL Conventions. See Association of
Jewish Libraries Resources on our Resources and
Links page. Check our Education
page for current online library courses. You can learn much
from the comfort of your home and computer.NEWS! In 2006,
AJLSC was
incorporated as a California public benefit, nonprofit corporation.
Our governing body is composed of nine
Directors, serving two-year terms, who elect our Officers and Advisory
Committee members in accordance with our Bylaws.
In 2007, AJLSC was granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service and the California Franchise Tax Board. AWARDS
FOR JUDAICA BOOKS
2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
- administered by Jewish
Book Council.Winner: Lucette Lagnado, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World ($100,000 prize) Choice Awards ($7500 prize): Ilana M. Blumberg, Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books Eric L. Goldstein, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity AJL 2007
Reference and Bibliography Award winners
AJL
2008
Sydney Taylor Book Award winners
- for children's Judaica books. 2007 National
Jewish Book Awards - list of winners (authors and titles)
presented by Jewish Book Council. MyJewishBooks.com
publishes an annotated list of the 2007
winners.Notable
Books, 2008, of the American Library Association -- Fiction: Amy Bloom, Away; Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union; Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases. Nonfiction: Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story; Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life & Universe. 2007
Sophie Brody Award. "U.S. author of the most
distinguished contribution to Jewish literature for adults" by American
Library Association, Arthur Brody, and Brodart Foundation.2007 Reference & User Services Award
of the American Library Association: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 22
vol. Best Work of American Fiction in Last 25 Years - by New
York Times (May 2006) -- One of the Runner-Ups was American
Pastoral by Philip Roth. Other Philip Roth books received
multiple votes: The Counterlife, Operation Shylock,
The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America.
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