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 Laurel Wolfson, MS, Promoted to Administrative Librarian Laurel Wolfson, MS has been promoted to Administrative Librarian at HUC-JIR. Wolfson will oversee and coordinate budget and finances for the four-campus Library system. She will continue all other current supervisory responsibilities as Deputy Librarian, Klau Library at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. She has worked at HUC-JIR since 1980, where she began her professional career as Library Technical Assistant. With an MS in Library and Information Science, Wolfson is currently studying for her MS in Jewish Studies. Wolfson currently serves as the President of the Association of Jewish Libraries and is a member of the American Library Association. Since 1998, Wolfson has served as Managing Editor on Studies in Bibliography, Booklore and Bibliographica Judaica. Laurel is married to Barry and has two daughters, Chana and Rachel. Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
