In addition to the Digital Project Demonstrations, the “From Access to Integration” conference (which the Center hosted Nov. 9-10) included:
Evening Session: A Discussion
Two prominent creative and strategic leaders in the field of digital technology and the humanities, shared their thoughts about the potential and the pitfalls of a digital humanities future. Douglas Greenberg (Executive Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University) and Günter Waibel (Director, Digitization Program Office, Smithsonian Institution). Moderator: Arthur Kiron (Curator, Judaica Collections, University of Pennsylvania Libraries)
Working Session I
Oren Kosansky (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Lewis & Clark College) presented The Rabat Genizah Project: Institutions, Communities, Agendas.
Yaron Tsur, (Head, School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University) presented The Historical Jewish Press Website.
Moderator: Anne Kenney (University Librarian, Cornell University)
Working Session II
Jonathan Dekel-Chen (Academic Chairman) & Semion Goldin (Director, the Leonid Nevzlin Center for Russian and East European Jewry, Hebrew University) presented Reconstructing a (Nearly) Lost World: Digital Documentation and Research on East European Jewry.
Jean-Claude Kuperminc (Director of the Library and Archives, Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris and President, French Commission on Jewish Archives) presented Partnerships, Autonomy, Visibility: Challenges in Building a Digital Library.
Rachel Heuberger (Head, Judaica Division at the University Library Frankfurt) presented Company Memory and More: Digitizing Frankfurt University Judaica Collection.
Moderator: Ann Kirschner, University Dean, Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York
Working Session III
Gila Flam (Music Department, National Library of Israel) presented Audiovisual Prayer: Sound and Letters as a Source of Inspiration and Learning.
Arthur Kiron (Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections, University of Pennsylvania) presented Partnering to Digitize the Holy Land: Photographs of Ottoman Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Naomi Steinberger (Director of Library Services, Jewish Theological Seminary) presented One Plus One is Greater than Two: Collaborating in the Digital World.
Moderator: Charles J. Henry (President, Council of Library and Information Resources)