publisher's booth

[Heidi Johnson]

Good points!  I'd forgotten that y'all tried this one year.  I guess
it's true
in general: location is everything!

Mary wasn't trying to push us one way or the other - she just thought
this
might be easier for us. And it would be easier, but not as effective!

But let's thrash out this booth thing in Detroit. I think the only
sticky point
is (a) finding out how much the furniture, etc. will cost and where we
get it,
and (b) figuring out how outside institutions can pay AILLA back. (And
I'll
ask our grants guru about that tomorrow morning.)

Heidi



On Monday, July 5, 2004, at 09:52 AM, Steven Bird wrote:

> Heidi (et al),
>
> I'm concerned that office hours in a conference room will hide us away
> in an out-of-the-way location again, as happened last time we ran OLAC
> "office hours".  My response to the LSA would be that we tried this
> already and it didn't work.
>
> I think that the exhibitor's room would give our projects much better
> exposure.  In common with the publishers that make up the majority of
> exhibitors, we're concerned with the dissemination of the research
> results of the community (though language documentation instead of
> monographs, and online distribution instead of hardcopy).
>
> -Steven
>
>
Heidi Johnson, PhD					ailla at ailla.org
Project Manager					www.ailla.utexas.org
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Dept. of Anthropology, EPS 1.130
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University of Texas at Austin
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