A Tribute to Dr. Marcia (Weiss) Posner (1931–2023)

In 2023, when the panel for the 40th anniversary of Judaica Librarianship (JL) was being formed for the AJL Conference, I was asked to contact my former co-editor, Marcia Posner (1985-1989).I had spoken with her a few years earlier, but in the spring of 2023, I got no answer when I called her home number, her work number, or even when I tried calling her daughter, Amy.I was then asked to speak about Marcia at the beginning of that conference session.I had not been acquainted with Marcia before I started to work with her on JL, and so I was unfamiliar with her many activities relating to the AJL division of synagogue, school, and center libraries (SSC; currently SSCPL, including public libraries) as well as Jewish children's literature.Coincidentally, two weeks before the JL panel, my sister Mala Glanz found her introduction of Marcia, given at a program of the AMIT Shoshana Chapter of West Hempstead [New York] during Jewish Book Month in November 1990.Some of the facets of Marcia's career were thus presented at the panel on Judaica Librarianship: