We have returned with some great links on Jewish books, libraries and librarianship.

The Melbourne Writers’ Fest produced this video on 10 Facts You Won’t Read in a Book About Books.

From Schocken Books, Ruth Gruber Inspires New Movie.

From the ACRLog blog: Is There a Rescue Plan at Your Library?

From Information Wants to be Free: What’s the Deal, JSTOR?

From the Jerusalem Post: French Teacher Suspended for Teaching ‘Too Much’ Holocaust

From the Jewish Literary Review: Elie Wiesel’s The Sonderberg Case.

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Here’s our weekly roundup of posts from across the internet and the blogosphere on books, Jewish books, libraries and more.

Librarians as___________: Shapeshifting at the Periphery, about  the changing roles of librarians in the information age, from In the Library with the Lead Pipe.

Adding Irena Klepfisz to the Canon, from Jewesses with Attitude.

Strike a Pose…Yale UP, from the Jewish Book Council blog.

Rosh Hashanah Books from the Jewish Literary Review.

Open Access and the Library’s Missing Mission, at Inside Higher Ed.

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We have a bunch of great links to share this week!

Book Recommendation Services, about online readers’ advisory sources, from the great Stephen’s Lighthouse blog. What are your favorite online resources for RA?

Connecting Kids to Character, from OnLion.

Social Media: Fad or Friend? from the AJL’s Greater Cleveland Chapter blog. This is such an important topic for all libraries and librarians.

News Update from ALA’s Washington Office: ‘Topic du Jour? Access’ (aka A Busy Time in DC), from ResourceShelf.

ebrary Adds 400 Titles to Public Library Complete, from Points of Reference.

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Here’s this week’s collection of links on Jewish books, reading, libraries and more.

Red, White and Kosher, from the Schocken Books blog.

In case you missed it at the convention, here’s a link to the 2010 AJL Convention: AJL and Social Media presentation.

From the Jewish Book Council, PBS’ Religion and Ethics Weekly featuring Debra Band and Pamela Greenberg.

From the Jerusalem Post, Taglit celebrates 10 years, a quarter million participants.

Anthony Julius and anti-Semitism in England, from the Jewish Literary Review.

Got something to share? Send me an email at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week.

Let’s see what’s new in the world of Jewish books, blogs, libraries and more this week.

From the Jewish Book Council blog, Allegra Goodman on Writing “Jewish” Fiction.

From ResourceShelf, JSTOR Involved as Israel Prepares to Open First Digital Archive of Hebrew Academic Journals.

From the Jewish Publication Society, Making the Cut.

Erika Dreifus of My Machberet talks up the new YIVO Online Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.

As always if you have feedback or suggestions please either comment below or email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org and have a great Fourth of July weekend.

Maybe it’s the early summer air, or ALA on the horizon, but there’s lots going on on the web in the way of Jewish books, libraries and the like this week.

ResourceShelf directs our attention to a New Report from ACRL: Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians and to a panel from Toronto about the future of publishing and ebooks.

The Yiddish Book Center published a book club guide for Friendly Fire: A Duet, by A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Stuart Schoffman.

Erika Dreifus’s book blog My Machberet published a guest post by Barbara Krasner entitled Writing Jewish-themed Children’s Books: A Conference Dispatch including a mention of AJL librarian Lisa Silverman.

OCLC announced Three Gateway milestone records entered in May, one by the Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books.

Jewish Delis: The History of the Nosh comes to us from the Jewish Publication Society’s blog.

The Jewish Quarterly announced the winner of the 2010 Wingate Prize, the so-called “Jewish Booker,” to My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness, by Adina Hoffman.

The New Yorker did a Q&A with Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love and more, in its 20 under 40 series.

Tablet published Reflections on a Book Paradise, about the sale of the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., and why it’s a Jewish story.

As always I welcome feedback and suggestions for next week’s roundup at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week and if you’re on your way to ALA, enjoy!

Here are some great links about Jewish books, libraries and more that have hit the web this week.

Two great posts from the Jewish Publication Society blog- a summer reading roundup and a post on Online Jewish Ethics Resources.

Safranim’s blog has launched. It’s in Hebrew and covers Jewish libraries and books.

Yesterday Tabletmag.com posted A Very Jewish Bloomsday: everything you need to know for today.

ResourceShelf posted a great article for ebook patrons on sending full text ebooks directly to a Kindle.

An article on Translated Poetry by Avron Sutkever in Hayden’s Ferry Review was posted by Erika at the My Machberet book blog.

Great Authors on the Big Jewcy appears at the Jewish Book Council blog.

Q&A with Miryam Kabakov: Editor of Anthology on Orthodox Lesbians is at the Jewish Womens’ Archive Jewesses with Attitude blog.

Inter-Religious Dialogue posted their review of the new online YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.

Have feedback? A link  you’d like to share? Please email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week!

Here are this week’s links on Jewish books, reading, writing and libraries.

From the Jewish Publication Society blog: Dr. Marsha Bryan Edelman, author of Discovering Jewish Music, on music’s role in Jewish history (Part 2).

From Tablet: Keeper of the Flame; Few writers have had champions as fierce as Chaim Grade’s widow, Inna Grade, who died earlier this month.

From Schocken Books: Writerscast.com interview with author David Lehman.

The Whole Megillah, “The Writer’s Resource for Jewish-Themed Childrens’ Books,” a new blog for kiddie lit folks.

Book review of Aharon Appelfeld’s Blooms of Darkness, at the Jew Wishes book blog.

Got a link about Jewish books you’d like me to see?  Email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week!

Here are this week’s links on Jewish books, reading, writing and libraries.

Cathy Balshone-Becze talks about What Public Libraries Can Do for Special Libraries: Presenting an Overview of Services in Massachusetts. This region-specific but very interesting presentation was made at last year’s New England Association of Jewish Libraries conference and has ongoing relevance for Judaica librarians.

From the New York Times, an Arts Review column on Medieval Remnants of the Jews in Spain.

Anne Frank’s Diary- complete, original- is on display for the first time. From the Christian Science Monitor.

For laughs: Scenes from the post-print apocalypse. From the New York Times.

From the Jewish Publication Society blog: Lost, But Not Forgotten.

From the Jerusalem Post: Jerusalem Limmud FSU event to highlight Nobel prize theme: Jewish learning festival for Russian speakers follows successful events in Ukraine, Moscow.

Check out the Jewish Book Council’s upcoming Twitter Book Club: Jennifer Gilmore’s Something Red: A Novel, on June 2.

Got a link about Jewish books you’d like me to see?  Email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week!

Here are this week’s links on Jewish books, reading, writing and libraries.

From AP: Short story writer Deborah Eisenberg wins MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant.

From the New York Times: Israeli Museum Unveils Rare Renaissance

The Jewish Book Council blog announces the Canadian Jewish Book Awards.

Tablet reports Amid Dying Languages, Yiddish Lives On.

From the New York Times: Adding More Jewish Voices to the Discussion

Got a link about Jewish books you’d like me to see?  Email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week!

Here are this week’s links on Jewish books, reading, writing and libraries.

For Yom Ha’atzmaut, The Jewish Publication Society did a terrific link roundup of their own, on Israeli literature.

Nothing can equal Pi, from the National Post, on reaction to Yann Martel’s Holocaust allegory, Beatrice and Virgil. Have you read it yet? What did you think?

Live and “Virtual” Literary Events to Share, from the My Machberet book blog.

Jerusalem 1995-1996: Eating Standing Up, at the Jewish Book Council blog.

Got a link about Jewish books you’d like me to see?  Email me at mcloutier at jewishlibraries.org. Have a great week!