Our local committee met with Past-Pres.Suzi Dubin at the Marriott Chateau Champlain at the end of October, to discuss convention plans and to tour the hotel. This beautiful hotel is centrally located in downtown Montreal, on the metro line, and within walking distance to shopping, restaurants, museums, and tourist sites such as Vieux Montreal and the Old Port area. The views from the hotel rooms are magnificent, with Mount Royal on one side, and the St.Laurence River on the other.
http://www.montrealchateauchamplain.com/index.htm Our programming committee has created an off-site event on Monday afternoon at the Jewish Community Campus in Snowdown, a short ride from downtown by bus or metro, where there will be presentations going on all afternoon, as well as tours of the Jewish Public Library, Holocaust Center and much more. This will be followed by a reception hosted by the Jewish Public Library. Tickets for the Yiddish Festival Theater event that evening will be offered as part of the registration for convention, and we are hoping many of you will attend. We have quite a number of presentations planned around the Montreal/Canadian Jewish community in terms of library and archival collections, to be given by local AJL members, but we are still looking for proposals, and I am incuding the CFP, once again, in this message. See you all at AJL Convention in Montreal, June 19-22, 2011. Association of Jewish Libraries Call for Papers 2011 The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) will hold the 46th Annual Convention at the Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal, Quebec June 19-22, 2011. Librarians, archivists, scholars, educators, authors and others will meet to share their interest in Judaica librarianship and related topics. AJL is soliciting proposals for papers and presentations on aspects of Judaica librarianship as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, schools, synagogues and related institutions. Past topics have included literature and other resources, collection management, programming, reader advisory services, special and rare collections, cataloging and classification, digital and electronic resources, technology and local Jewish history. A special focus this year will be the cultural and linguistic diversity of the Montreal Jewish community. Submissions should include the following: Presenter's name, address, affiliation , telephone and email contacts. Brief biography. Title of proposed presentation. Summary of proposal. Specific technology or equipment requirements, if any. All submissions must be received by November 30, 2010. Please submit proposals by email to: [email protected] or by mail to: Marsha Lustigman, Bialik Library, 6500 Kildare Rd., Cote St. Luc, QC, Canada, H4W 3B8 Proposals will be reviewed by the Program Planning Committee, which is composed of national and local AJL members. Notification will be made in January, 2011. Marsha Lustigman Librarian, Bialik High School 6500 Kildare Rd. Montreal H4W 3B8 514-481-2736 www.bialikmtl.ca --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
