New England Chapter of The Association of Jewish Libraries

Following up on the meeting of the NEAJL at the Gann Academy, here are links pointing to books for children, teens, and adults which were discussed:
http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/awards/stba/index.htm
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9336.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/18/arts/design/20110418-museum.html
http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/authors/goldstein/
http://www.tlwkidsbooks.com/index.php?page_id=121
http://www.doriewitt.com/
http://zeek.forward.com/articles/117179/

Jewish Libraries and Learning

The past week has found me richly rewarded through Jewish organizations.  On my day off for working on Saturday, chose to visit the YIVO Institute of Jewish Learning in New York City http://www.yivo.org/about/index.php.  The library and building at 15 W. 16th Street houses collections and staff from five institutions under the umbrella name: The Center for Jewish Learning http://www.cjh.org/p/2.  Within the building are The American Jewish Historical Society, The American Sephardi Federation, The Leo Baeck Institute, The Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. "The YIVO Library holds over 385,000 volumes in 12 major languages, and the Archives contains more than 24,000,000 pieces, including manuscripts, documents, photographs, sound recordings, art works, films, posters, sheet music, and other artifacts..."

Later in the week I attended a New England Chapter meeting of Association of American Jewish Libraries at the Gann Academy in Waltham, MA where JONATHAN B. KRASNER, author of THE BENDERLY BOYS: AMERICAN JEWISH EDUCATION, lectured on three women who made significant contributions to Jewish books for children and acculturation into American society.  The three women were:   SADIE ROSE WEILERSTEIN and her book THE ADVENTURES OF K'TON TON http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/weilerstein-sadie-rose; MAMIE GOLDSMITH GAMERON http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gamoran-mamie; and illustrator TEMIMA GEZARI http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gezari-temima.

Tomorrow my book group will  discuss 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: A WORK OF FICTION by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein which the library does own in its fiction collection. A timely selection about the debate between proponents of faith and of reason.