Hope everyone had a kosher and simcha-filled Pesach. Back to work for us here on the link round up. Here are this week’s bookmarkable links. Read More »

  The Jewish Book Carnival is a monthly event where bloggers who blog about Jewish books can meet, read, and comment on each others’ posts. The posts are hosted on one of the participant’s sites on the 15th of each month. Read More »

As the 2011 AJL Convention approaches, AJL will be publishing the remaining podcast episodes from the 2010 Convention at an accelerated rate! Watch Hasafran, Facebook, and Twitter for notices of new episodes. You can listen to any podcast episode at jewishlibraries.org/podcast . Read More »

  Shabbat Shalom Safranim! Here is the AJL weekly list of bookmarkable links.   In the spirit of the upcoming convention in Montreal, check out their Jewish Public Library Archives . They’re also on Flickr, accessible here: http: //www.flickr.com/photos/jpl archives/ . Read More »

Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee member Barbara Krasner has created an expert-packed workshop to guide Jewish children’s writers in new directions with guest faculty and AJL member Linda Silver, author of Best Jewish Books for Children and Teens , to help. Read More »

Shavua Tov Safranim! Here is this week’s bookmarkable links: Judaica Libraries Unite The New York Public Library, New York University, and Columbia University, which all have extensive Judaica collections are collaborating to offer scholars/members of any one of the three institutions to access to all three collections, Read more here . Read More »

Shalom Safranim! Hope everyone had a great Purim. Here is this week’s bookmarkable links: Gearing up for Pesach Harvard University Press recently published a facsimile version of the Library of Congress’s beautiful Washingoton Haggadah, written and illustrated by Yoel ben Shimon during the 15th century. Read More »

Thanks to Linda K. Wertheimer for hosting this month’s Jewish Book Carnival over at Jewish Muse! She has gathered interesting posts about Purim, faith, reading recommendations, and by luck, multiple reviews of David Grossman’s To the End of the Land. Read More »

Shavua Tov Safranim! Here is this week’s list of Bookmarkable links. Remember that all of the links from recent posts on the Weekly Link Roundup can also now be searched at Delicious.com  by searching for “ajl links”. Read More »

PRESS RELEASE For more information, contact: Daniel Scheide dscheide@fau.edu 2011 Judaica Reference and Bibliography Awards Announced by Association of Jewish Libraries For immediate release The Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections Read More »

10: 00AM to 3: 00PM – SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2011 Featured Speakers: Sid Jacobson was editor in chief at Harvey Comics, where he created Richie Rich, and was the executive editor at Marvel Comics. Read More »

Good Shabbos everyone! Here are this week’s suggested links to bookmark: Israeli online library catalogs (OPACs) : The MALMAD – Israel Center for Digital Information Services publishes and maintains an extensive, if not exhaustive, list of library web catalogs from Israel’s universities. Read More »

The Association of Jewish Librarians is delighted to announce the winners of the 2011 Life Membership and Fanny Goldstein Merit Awards, to be presented at the AJL Annual Convention in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in June 2011. Read More »

Shavua tov safranim! Here are this week’s book-markable links: Israeli online library catalogs (OPACs) : The MALMAD – Israel Center for Digital Information Services publishes and maintains an extensive, if not exhaustive, list of library web catalogs from Israel’s universities. Read More »

Since the early days of our organization, the AJL Newsletter has been printed on paper and distributed by mail. With the dawning of this new technological age (and the need for efficiency, cost savings, and environmental sensitivity), we are now moving to digital distribution. Read More »

Shavua tov Safranim! Here are this week’s Judaica and library-related links of interest: JWA Film Series Guide : “JWA’s new film discussion program provides groups with tools to explore cultural attitudes about American Jewish women through screening and discussion of five popular movies produced over the last fifty years. Read More »

Facebook members can easily keep up with AJL’s doings by visiting the AJL Facebook page at facebook.com/jewishlibraries and clicking the Like button. If you already “like” AJL on Facebook, you should be receiving our status updates in your Facebook news feed (on your “wall”). Read More »

Ready-set-go! Get out your passports and cash in your air miles because it’s time to book your travel and hotel reservations for June 19 -22, 2011 in Montreal! All AJL Convention 2011 registration and preliminary program information isnow available online. Early bird registration deadline is April 10. Read More »

Welcome to the February 2011 edition of the Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly event where bloggers who blog about Jewish books can meet, read and comment on each others’ posts. This month, the Carnival is hosted by The Boston Bibliophile and you can find the post here . Read More »

Hello Safranim, here are this week’s Judaica links of interest. I’ll be trying to post the link roundups earlier in the week in order to give you more time to explore them. From here on out, I’ll also be archiving all of these links under the tag “ajl links” in Delicious . If you want to see them, just go to the http://www.delicious. Read More »