Taking my lead from Rebecca Jefferson, I am sending the minutes of the SSC Meeting from Charleston in June 2016.
*Minutes from AJL SSC Division meeting June 19, 2016* Kathy Bloomfield called the meeting to order 4:30 PM. Kathy announced that as Aimee was not able to attend the conference and Chaya as VP was not able to speak, she would run the meeting. *2015 Minutes:* Debbie Feder read the minutes from last year. Kathy asked for a motion to approve minutes. Heidi seconded the motion. The minutes were unanimously approved. Kathy introduced Susan Kusell as the new SSC VP. *Committee Reports:* Rachail Kurtz was not at conference. Kathy read accreditation report: announcements were placed in HaSafran several times in order to encourage applying for accreditation and renewal of accreditation. Benefits and deadlines for applying were highlighted. Rachail emailed all the libraries whose membership had expired in the past year or was about to expire to remind them to renew. 5 applications were received. They will receive their certificates at the conference. Enid Sperber was not present, her report on the Bibliography Bank was as follows: Six new bibliographies were added to the Bibliography Bank and all bibliographies over 7 years old were deleted as obsolete. Joyce Levine is stepping down as coordinator of the Wiki. She said she would be willing to train a new volunteer to take over. She spoke about how valuable the wiki is. Kathy asked Joyce what is involved in doing the wiki. Joyce replied that the wiki was well arranged for many topics. It does what librarians do which is sorting and organizing topics. Toby Harris agreed to manage the wiki. The wiki is open to the public. You do not have to be a member of AJL to access it. Aileen Grossberg reported that The Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award winner, Meira Dreizen is coming from England to accept her award for "Honey and Me". Six good entries were received this year (they weren't all holocaust or holiday books). Aileen presented the STBA to Aron Applefeld in Israel. She requested volunteers to serve on the STBC. Aileen said that the Jewish Book Council was unresponsive to requests for publicity for the STBA. There was a discussion with suggestions that maybe Amalia can officially write to the Jewish Book Council on behalf of the STBC. Diane Rauchberger reported that the STBC received and read over 120 books in 3 categories. The new chair Ellen Tillman issued an invitation for everyone to come to the sessions. Aileen Ratzabi head of the Weine user's group was not present. Her report stated that there are about a dozen diverse people who are involved in the group. They want to address the problem of how the group can have access to the current version online so that they can submit suggestions. Aileen would like to find something better than Google Docs. Joyce offered suggestions and said she would contact Aileen in order to clarify the problem and possible solutions. A secretary has not been chosen yet. *Winkler-Groner Scholarship award * Winkler-Groner award was won by Rena Citron. Rachel will present the award at lunch on Monday. *2016 Conference Discussion:* Next year's conference will be in NYC. Suggestions for sessions were requested. · It was suggested that we should revisit last year's topics which were not used. Anyone who has suggestions should email them to Jim. · Some of the suggestions mentioned: · genealogy is a popular topic. It was suggested to ask David Horowitz from Israel who is head of Heritage.com. · Ellen Tillman said she will present a program at her synagogue on how to do a genealogy. · A suggestion was made that since the conference was in NYC we should bring in as many authors as we can for the author's luncheon. · Joyce had concerns that the rooms are very small at HUC for banquet. · Ellen said that everyone should join JEDlab(?) on Facebook to share our expertise with Jewish educators because 90% of the books recommended to teach are not Jewish themed. · Ellen wanted to know if anyone was going to present at NEWCAJE · Heidi said that we should all keep on our radar if some local program is scheduled so we can represent AJL, and we can all be ambassadors. · Heidi suggested more sessions on how to advocate for your library · Amalia suggested Freshman seminar sessions · Joyce suggested calling the sessions continuing education not Freshman seminars · Amalia said that we should stress that if Synagogue or center libraries get accredited they will be able to get more funding. Amalia wished everyone a nice summer. Adjourned 5:15 PM. Respectfully submitted. Chaya Wiesman -- Kathleen M. Bloomfield Association of Jewish Libraries, President - Schools, Synagogues & Libraries Division http://forwordsbooks.com/ kids books that matter. "The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read." - Jacques Ellul
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