“A Jewish Librarian in Germany" by Phyllis Holman Weisbard
Last year the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Continuing Education sponsored a trip to Germany for graduate students in SLIS, who took the trip for credit, and other interested people. As librarians they were of course interested in the various libraries and archives they visited. Another attraction was the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type ca 1439 and its museum. One of the travelers was Phyllis Holman Weisbard, spent her free time investigating the remarkable rebirth of Jewish life in modern, reunified Germany. On Monday, February 6 she will talk about what she discovered in her role as “A Jewish Librarian in Germany.”
Phyllis Holman Weisbard, M.A., M.Ed. has been University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies Librarian since 1991. In 1999 she achieved the rank of “Distinguished,” reserved for academic staff whose work has national and international impact. She and her staff produce three journals designed to keep scholars and activists informed of new resources on women and gender: Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources, Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents, and New Books on Women, Gender, & Feminism. Phyllis also maintains a well-respected gateway to web-based information on women and gender at http://womenst.library.wisc.edu , is a frequent contributor to publications and a presenter on women and gender studies resource topics at state, national, and international conferences. She compiled an annotated bibliography on the scholarship on American women’s history that was published in Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997), updated for Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (free online at http://jwa.org/encyclopedia) and updated thereafter through her website.
