[CBW_Exec] Something to consider before our meeting in Louisville

[Rebecca Mlynarczyk]

Dear Board Members,

Thank you all for your good wishes on the e-publication of *Basic
Writing*by George Otte and me. It's exciting to see the work of many
years available
at last. We are so pleased that the book is available free to anyone who
wants to read part or all of it.

Meanwhile, I'm writing to ask you to consider another longstanding project
related to basic writing. For several years, we've been trying to make all
the past issues of  the *Journal of Basic Writing* available online, open
access, but we need a small amount of money to hire a tech person to get
this to actually happen. At the moment, here's where we stand: Mike
Palmquist of the WAC Clearinghouse has enthusiastically agreed to host the
archive on their site. A librarian at our college has carefully scanned most
of these issue into searchable PDFs. But we need to hire a tech person here
in NYC to work with the Clearinghouse to get this archive up and running. I
think our wonderful editorial assistant Corey Frost would be able to do this
in the spring or summer for about $1,000. I don't know what the financial
situation of CBW is at the moment, but even a partial contribution to this
end (which would of course be acknowledged on the website) would be a great
help.

If I recall correctly, Greg is the treasurer, and I'm not sure that Greg
will be able to attend the meeting. But Greg, if you could find a way to let
us know the status of the treasury, that would be helpful.

A historical footnote: now that we have changed printers, there are no more
stored copies of previous issues, so if we don't manage to host these issues
online, some of them will really be lost; there will be no way for
composition scholars to access them in the future.

I know how busy you are all, getting ready to leave for Louisville. But
Shannon thought it would be good to touch base with you before the exec
board meeting. Any comments or suggestions would be welcome, and then
perhaps we won't have to spend as much time discussing this at the meeting.

All the best,

Rebecca

Rebecca
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