[ha-Safran] ALA Beta Phi Mu Award seeks nominations

2018-01-02 Thread Emily Bergman
The American Library Association and the jury for the Beta Phi Mu encourages you to submit nominations for someone who deserves to be known for their work in education for librarianship. The award consists of $1,000 and a 24k gold framed citation of achievement. This annual award is for a library

[ha-Safran] AJL Jewish Book Carnival: reminder for those who run blogs or other book-focused outlets

2018-01-02 Thread Erika Dreifus
Shalom, chaverim: Most of you are surely already familiar with the AJL's "Jewish Book Carnival" program, detailed on the website at http://jewishlibraries.org/ content.php?page=Jewish_Book_Carnival_HQ. Briefly, this monthly online happening brings together recent news, reviews, and interviews from

[ha-Safran] a good start for the year

2018-01-02 Thread Weisman, Yaffa
For those of you who haven't heard the (dual) good news yet: Sheryl Stahl is the new Director of the Frances-Henry Library of HUC-JIR in Los Angeles as of today (1) and, (2) I have retired from that position at the end of 2017. Congratulations to both of us... I will still be teaching at USC on be

Re: [ha-Safran] a good start for the year

2018-01-02 Thread Amalia Warshenbrot
Thank you to Yaffa for her contribution to AJL as president, presenter and for her financial contributions. Mazal tov, Sheryl. I know that you will be an inspiration to others. Amalia, AJL President. Sent from my iPad > On Jan 2, 2018, at 1:37 PM, Weisman, Yaffa wrote: > > --_000_BY1PR13MB

Re: [ha-Safran] a good start for the year

2018-01-02 Thread Kathleen Bloomfield
Mazel Tov to both of you! Kathy B, On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Weisman, Yaffa wrote: > For those of you who haven’t heard the (dual) good news yet: > > Sheryl Stahl is the new Director of the Frances-Henry Library of HUC-JIR > in Los Angeles as of today (1) and, > > (2) I have retired from