[CBW_Exec] Something to consider before our meeting in Louisville

[Lalicker, William]

Sign me up for $10-how about a check at CCCC, Rebecca? --Bill

William B. Lalicker, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Director, Composition Program
Director, Global Development Collaborative
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Main Hall, 720 S. High Street
West Chester, PA 19383 USA
wlalicker at wcupa.edu; tel. 610.436.2268; fax 610.738.0516

From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu [mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Rebecca Mlynarczyk
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:22 AM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Cc: HopeKCC at aol.com
Subject: [CBW_Exec] Something to consider before our meeting in Louisville

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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