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Cookbooks: Preserving Jewish Tradition, Daniel Feinberg, Alice Crosetto

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

Culinary traditions have played an integral role in the Jewish religion from its very beginning. Families have continually passed down these traditions from one generation to the next as a means to preserve Jewish culture as well as to maintain their Jewish identity. The authors propose that one of the methods of preserving and transmitting these culinary traditions, traditions clearly rooted in oral tradition, has been through the cookbook. While the written cookbook continues to be popular and marketable, traditional cookbook contents are becoming increasingly available online. In saving recipes for future generations, cookbooks preserve religious, cultural, and traditional elements …

Review Of Buildings, Landscapes, And Memory: Case Studies In Historic Preservation, D. Courtenay Mcleland

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

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Beyond ‘2010 The Year Of Cataloging Research’, Susan A. Massey

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

Based on a motion initiated by the Implementation Group on the Library of Congress Working Group Report, at ALA Midwinter 2010 the ALA and ALCTS Boards of Directors passed a resolution designating 2010 as the Year of Cataloging Research. The Report of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control addressed several goals, including “Work to develop a stronger, more rigorous culture of formal evaluation, critique and validation, and build a cumulative research agenda and evidence base. Encourage, highlight, reward and share best research practice and results.”

Here Comes Everybody (A Fishbowl Conversation), Robb Waltner, Teresa Abaid, Rita Cauce, Alice Eng

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

This session intended to introduce the “unconference” experience to the conference. Participants sat in a “fishbowl” configuration and discussed the major issues regarding electronic resources and libraries. In this way, every attendee had a chance to speak.

Both Sides Of The Story, Barbara Tuck

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

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