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PAGE 26 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE July 18, 1986
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by Shloime Perel
A planned new cataloging ser
vice for synagogue, school and
community center Judaica librar
ies in Southern California was re
vealed at the 21st annual conven
tion of the Association of Jewish
Libraries (AJL), held in Montreal.
One hundred and fifty delegates
from across the United States and
Canada attended.
The announcement, made in a
session on “Computer Networking
in Small Libraries: Is it Feasible,
Reasonable or Practical—An Ex
ploratory Session,” reflects the
trend—very visible at the conven
tion—to upgrade Jewish library
work at all levels.
Additionally, in what was clearly
a major concern, the convention
decided to press for the separate
category for Holocaust denial lit
erature and for its distinct separa
tion from the subject heading
“Holocaust.”
“The whole organization is dy
namic and we’re moving forward
in many, many areas,” Bella Hass
Weinberg, co-editor of the AJL’s
“Judaica Librarianship,”said. “The
whole profession is becoming more
competent. There are big issues. In
all the major areas—cataloging,
rare books, acquisitions, preserva
tions—we’re more active.”
The convention bustled with en
thusiasm, friendship and discussion.
“We are keepers of the heritage, to
keep it and spread it, to train others
to do this,” said outgoing president
Hazel Karp, head librarian of the
Hebrew Academy of Atlanta. “We
function through the annual con
vention and keep taking on more
and more.”
The AJL convention provides
the only occasion for Jewish librar
ians from North American to come
together. “It breaks down isola
tion,” said president-elect Edith
Lubetsky of Yeshiva University.
“Here we have the opportunity of
sharing new ideas. Just finding out
that your problems aren’t only
your own is a help. A lot of people
here are sharing ideas and concerns.
The convention has a lot of rele
vance for my own library work,
said Lubetsky. “We learn about new
trends and set new trends. We’re a
voluntary organization, and we’re
building. Some of the things that
people have dreamt about for a
long time are coming about now.”
The AJL was founded in 1965
through the merger of two organi
zations: The Jewish Librarians
Association founded in 1946 for
academic and archival institutions
and the Jewish Library Associa
tion, founded in 1962 for Jewish
communal libraries of all types.
The AJL currently has 690 mem
bers, with 47 outside the U.S.
The association sees itself as
having a distinct mission in the
Jewish world and perhaps in the
world in general. “Why would you
join the lowest paying profession
in the U.S. if you didn’t believe in
it?” asked Hazel Karp. “It’s a cal
ling, really. There’s a sense of total
dedication. There are people here
who are volunteers or who work
for minimal salaries. Today, the
librarians are the keepers of the
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We see ourselves as the people who
preserve Jewish books.”
“We have these workshop ses
sions,” said Mrs. Karp, “because
we’re concerned with things other
people aren’t concerned about. We
have Jewish archivists who are
maintaining the history of the Jews
in America. YIVO has played a
great role. We are people based in
time, not in space. That’s why
records are so important. From the
tiniest library on, we’re all involved
in the same kind of thing.”
The convention-held sessions
included computer networking;
values in Jewish children’s litera
ture; issues in cataloging; the trans
mission of Jewish culture and values
through arts and crafts; archival
organization; controversial mate
rials in Jewish collections; “Read
ers Theater,” or interpretive dram
atization while reading from a text.
Issues regarding cataloging
formed an important part of the
convention. Working for changes
in the cataloging of Judaica and
related materials constitutes a
primary area of AJL influence on
the organization of knowledge. It
is also a highly contentious area
relating to philosophical, ethical
and political issues.
Hazel Karp emphasizes that
“cataloging has to do with ways of
seeing the world, with how we
categorize the world. The way sub
ject headings are phrased is very
important.
“‘Holocaust’ was not a subject
heading 10 years ago,” she said. “It
was previously placed under‘World
War II.’ In the Library of Congress
(L.C.) system, now, ‘Holocaust’
refers only to Jews. This is an
example of how we can have an
impact.”
Cataloging issues were also ex
tensively discussed in a session on
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