v AJLSC Members who are featured in the "news"  v

Drucker, Malka, Rabbi.  Winner of several New Mexico Book Awards for 2009:  Finalist, Religious Book, for Women and Judaism. Praeger, 2009; and Winner, Juvenile Book, and Finalist, Religious Book, for Portraits of Jewish American Heroes.  Dutton's Children's Books, 2008.  Also, Booklist Online named her Portraits of Jewish American Heroes as one of the Top Ten Religion Books for Youth 2008.

Lisa Silverman was in Copenhagen to speak at the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) conference, earlier 2009.  She presented a talk on "Illustrated Books About the Holocaust for Children" on September 3, 2008.  Lisa is Director of the Sinai Temple Blumenthal Library, Los Angeles.

"Adaire J. Klein: Keeper of Memories, Nurturer of Souls" in the Dec. 28, 2007 - Jan. 3, 2008, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles cover story titled, "Mensches: Our Third Annual Salute to Big-Hearted Angelenos."   Adaire is Director of the Library and Archival Services at the Simon Wiesenthal Center-Museum of Tolerance.

v AJLSC Members who won AJL awards v

Ellen G. Cole, Librarian at the Eugene Levine Memorial Library, Temple Isaiah, Los Angeles, CA won the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award for 2007, at the AJL Convention in Phoenix, AZ, in June 2007.  The Fanny Goldstein Merit Award, named for the librarian, social activist, and founder of National Jewish Book Month, is bestowed in recognition of loyal and ongoing contributions to the Association and to the profession of Jewish librarianship.  See Ellen's heartfelt Acceptance Speech.

Other AJLSC members to win the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award are:  Susan Dubin (2001), Adaire J. Klein (1994), and Barbara Y. Leff (1992).
   
Winners of the AJL Life Membership Award are:  Rita C. Frischer (2000) and Barbara Y. Leff (1994). 

v AJLSC Members who are authors v

Yasgur, Abigail, and Joseph Lipner, illustrated by Barbara Mendes.  Max Said Yes!  The Woodstock Story.    Change the Universe Press, 2009. 
(See website for details).

v AJLSC Members who serve on AJL Council, 2008-2010 v

David Hirsch -

Rachel Glasser - AJL Corresponding Secretary
    Librarian, Yavneh Academy, Paramus, NJ 

Sheryl Stahl - AJL Treasurer

Rita Frischer - Seattle Convention Committtee
    

Ronda Rose - AJL Immediate Past-President
    Library Director, Temple Emanuel Kosofsky Library, Beverly Hills, CA

v  Local AJLSC Libraries awarded AJL Accreditation Certificates v   [see photos]

    Advanced Level Judaica Library Accreditation:

2007 -- Weber Library, Adat Ari El, Valley Village, CA -- Lesley Alexander-Roxas, Day School Librarian; and Grace Friedman, Religious School Librarian.

2008 -- YULA Girls High School -- Rayna Clark, Head Librarian. 

v AJLSC Members who serve in related library fields v    

Rick Burke - Executive Director, Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC).

Susan Dubin - Member, Board of Directors, Children's Literature Council of Southern California.

Grace Friedman - President, Friends of the Fairfax Branch, Los Angeles Public Library.

Judy Katz - President, American Federation of State, County, Municipal Employees, Retired, of Southern California  (AFSCME).

Barbara Leff - President, Friends of the Encino-Tarzana Branch, Los Angeles Public Library.

Michael Masliah - Panel member of 2007 Anthony Boucher Memorial Mystery Convention in Anchorage, Alaska; and "Fan Guest of Honor" at the March 6-9, 2008 Left Coast Crime Murder Convention in Denver.

Cathy Ryne - President, Children's Literature Council of Southern California.

Lisa Silverman, Children's Editor, Jewish Book World, of the Jewish Book Council; and presented a talk on "Illustrated Books about the Holocaust for Children" at the 2008 International Board of Books for Young People conference in Copenhagen.   

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