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November and December is usually downtime at the Secretariat...
November and December is usually downtime at the Secretariat, the calm before the storm, as preparations for the conference begin in full swing after the New Year.   And now, as we approach mid-February and head into Carnival season here in New Orleans, we are about to begin the registration process for the conference in Trinidad.  This year, for the first time, online registration is made possible via Paypal on the conference web site, in addition to traditional forms of payment.  Many thanks to Carol Avila and Melissa Gasparotto for setting this up.  Elmelinda and Lynn have been very busy planning a great event, and we are all looking forward to June in Trinidad.
Personal and institutional membership renewals for the current year continue to trickle in.  Carol and I have continued to examine the issue of lapsed memberships, especially for institutional members, and we will have a report in a couple of weeks.
                Aside from collecting dues and gearing up for the June conference, the Secretariat mailed out posters to various library schools in the U.S. and Canada on behalf of the Scholarship Committee chaired by Peter Johnson.   The program has been highly successful.  The committee already selected two awardees in the fall.  The new information we mailed out announced another round of fellowships in the spring, and applications have been arriving steadily.
                I'm also very happy to report that some of our backlogged publications are finally out and in the mail.  The SALALM 53 Papers, Encounter, Engagement and Exchange:  How Native Populations of the Americas Transformed the World, from the meeting held in New Orleans in the spring of 2003, came out last week.  Also, in December we sent out volume 57 of the Bibliography Series, Bibliography of Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographies. Annual Report, 2004/2005-2005/2006 by Gayle Williams.  Congratulations to John Wright and Gayle for their publications, but also to our Chair of Editorial Committee, Orchid Mazurkiewicz, for shepherding these projects through.

Hortensia Calvo
Executive Secretary

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