NEWSLETTER
June 2004
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NEWSLETTER June 2004 |
Hola, PubSIG friends,
I know I promised that the May newsletter would be my last as PubSIG chair, but there are a few more loose ends to tie up before Meg Ashman gets the gavel. Thanks for your forbearance!
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In this issue
- Year-end report
- Last-minute Tahoe reminders
- Thanks
- Words about words
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Year-end report
Each spring, the ACE board asks for a report from each SIG detailing the goals, activities and accomplishments for the year. For 2003-04, our SIG set several goals:
1. Encourage members to use and contribute
to the PubSIG Web site.
2. Increase the PubSIG members' sharing
of experiences and expertise.
3. Offer excellent professional development
opportunities for all members.
4. Increase the value of the C&A
program to SIG members.
5. Make the PubSIG more useful to members
year-round.
6. Help new members feel welcome and
understand the benefits of PubSIG membership.
We've made good progress in reaching nearly all of them. And since the report was submitted, we've added two more accomplishments: Helen White was elected PubSIG vice chair-elect, and welcome letters were sent to new PubSIG members.
Attached for your enjoyment (!) is the report that I submitted to the board last month on our group's activities this year.
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Last-minute Tahoe reminders
Below are some things to keep in mind for those of you who are attending the ACE conference next week:
Business meeting: We look forward to seeing you at the PubSIG business meeting, set for 4-5:15 p.m. Monday. We'll discuss our accomplishments from last year, make plans on how ACE and the SIG can serve you better next year, and generally get to know our colleagues from across the country (and planet) better.
Idea swap: Please be thinking of your contribution to "Trading Aces
and Disgraces," a share session in which each of us briefly (2-3 minutes)
discusses an experience, resource, product and/or professional tool that
might be helpful or instructive to fellow SIG members. We're hoping that
this advice/expertise/experience discussion will be a truly useful and
interesting part of the business meeting.
Nosh and network: For a more unstructured get-acquainted opportunity,
all interested PubSIG members are invited to join us for supper during
the "dinner on your own" time later that Monday evening. Just meet us in
the hotel lobby after the ACE Development Auction that night. We'll decide
on dinner destination(s) then.
Connect on foot: Also keep in mind that several of us are planning to participate in the Heavenly Gondola Walking/Hiking tour Wednesday afternoon, and any PubSIG members who would like to join us and walk with fellow members are welcome. We can sort ourselves out just before or on the way to the tour.
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Thanks
Merci, gracias and thanks to Kathy Garvey of CA, LaRae Donnellen of FL, Meg Ashman of VT, Jim Coats of CA, Helen White of TX, Evie Engel of OR and Glenda Freeman of AL for agreeing to gather information about publishing-related sessions at the ACE conference for our fellow members who can't come. As a small token of my appreciation, I just did the wave individually in my office for all of you. I'm sure the other members will do the same at their convenience. Thanks be to y'all from all your colleagues!
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Words about words
Never will I forget my naive astonishment at discovering that there existed another person who loved words in much the same sputtering and agonised way that I did, who fought them and cursed them and cried over them and stood back, dazzled and agog in admiration of them. After all those years isolated in my hometown, shut up in my bedroom reading books, I had thought I was the only person in the world so afflicted.
* Donna Tartt, American novelist, essayist, and critic,
The Guardian, July 20, 2002
Have a great week, everyone!
Diane Bowen
PubSIG chair
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