I'm coming late to this discussion and have not read all of the previous posts, so please excuse me if I'm repeating ideas already presented or am speaking out of turn. But my general opinion is that AJL should engage a professional to help us rethink our purpose, organization, and activities - to create a new strategic plan for our association. It may be that we are not putting our best efforts where they are truly needed in this day and age, that we may need to engage a professional to help us project our image and to lobby for libraries. We all have great talent and many ideas, but are we using them to the best advantage of our profession? Many non-profit organizations engage in such strategic rethinking and I think it's time for us to do so as well, to ensure the future of Judaica librarianship.
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