Current Officers
Jan Marston President
Sara Wilson President-Elect
Sharon Sellars Treasurer
Ute S. Lahaie Secretary
Newsletter Editor
Ute Lahaie (Proceedings Editor)
Number of newsletters published last year: Proceedings
Meetings held in the past year:
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Location |
Louisiana State University |
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Theme |
Uniting Language, Culture, and Technology in the New Millenium |
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Date(s) |
4/7/00 and 4/8/00 |
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Attendance |
84 |
Describe the health of your organization.
We have a growing, healthy organization. Because we cover so much territory, we have more potential of growing virtually than we do to offer more than one annual meeting. Most long-term members already subscribe to LLTI, so we haven't developed another discussion list. One major effort is our annual spring meeting, which has now grown to two full days of presentations and workshops (see our web page, now at http://fllc.smu.edu/socall). Last year's conference featured a printed proceedings, and the proceedings for SOCALL 2000 are in the works.
Issues to address:
Since the next IALL meeting is in our region, our Board wanted the SLM to explore allowing us to have a concurrent conference, with a few sessions set aside for the SOCALL members (as IALL does with CALICO and other organizations). We have a number of members who would not be able to attend both a spring SOCALL meeting and the IALL conference, but they are long-term members and we wouldn't want to abandon them by simply canceling the SOCALL meeting. We want to act in solidarity with Claire and support her efforts for the IALL conference, and we would like to maintain the growth and momentum of our regional organization at the same time. We think we can direct some of the energies of the regional organization to make IALL at Rice the best ever. In order for this to work, however, we need a way for our regional members to attend without paying such a high conference fee. We might be able to pay some part of the IALL conference fees with SOCALL money, but we need to think about this together.