Distributions Coordinator Report

Frank Ryan, Brown University

Activities in the past year have included storage and distribution of IALL publications, including the primary distribution of monographs (Lab Design Kit, Task-Based Activities, etc. and the secondary distribution of serials (IALL Journal) to members who join or renew after the Managing Editor has completed the general mailing.

I am still working on reducing our extensive holdings of very old publications. I am presently in the process of:

• Compiling one full set of Journals for: President, Journal Editor, and Distribution Coordinator.

• Reducing holdings of Journals 10 years old or older to 10 (Keeping all copies of those for the past 10 years.)

• Contacting Library of Congress and ERIC to donate full sets of journals to each.

• This is probably someone else's duty, but it's a great idea--in the future, extra copies of Journals will be shipped to regional group leaders and affiliate reps for use at conferences. Five copies will be sent to regional leaders and the TESOL representative, and ten sent to the CALICO and ACTFL representatives.

We currently have 10 complete Lab Management Manuals and 18 complete Design Kits. We need to think very seriously about the issues of new editions and re-publication or reprinting. Certainly, my chapter on analog technology in the Design Kit is very outdated and needs to be redone completely. Perhaps other chapters in either text need updating as well. A second concern is the medium in which we will distribute these works. Given the diminishing stock and the possible need for new editions, should we be thinking about an electronic format?

In the future, hard copy monographs should be printed close to the home institution of the Distributions Coordinator to save costs of shipping cases of newly printed texts.