11.749, All: The Year 2000 LINGUIST Fund Drive (fwd)

[David Robertson]

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LhaXayEm, shiks; the following message comes from our generous hosts at
the LINGUIST list.  If you would like to make a donation, please read on.
Many thanks,

Dave Robertson



Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 04:52:31 -0000
From: The LINGUIST Network <linguist at linguistlist.org>
	
Spring is in the air, and our annual LINGUIST Fund Drive is now
officially under way. As a non-profit academic list, LINGUIST
depends on your help to support the seven student editors and two
student programmers who work to deliver the services you've
become accustomed to--and also to develop the new services you
suggest.
	
With almost 13,000 subscribers worldwide, LINGUIST is probably
the most widely read linguistic publication in the world.  During
March, 2000, we sent out  87,000 email messages a day.  And the
main web site (exclusive of the 4 mirror sites) receives over
300,000 hits per week. The LINGUIST site now has over 2,000
pages of data, and most of these pages contain hundreds of links
to other linguistic and linguistics-related websites.
	
As a subscriber, you enjoy the convenience of having
announcements of New Books and Journals, Jobs, Conferences,
and Calls for Papers sent to your own email account.  We also
provide you with  Book Reviews, The Notice Board, and access to
linguistics Discussions. When you need information for research,
you can ask 13,000 of your colleagues for help through the Queries
issues. You can also search the Dissertation Abstracts Directory,
the Directory of Undergraduate and Graduate Linguistics Programs,
and the Directory of Linguists.  You can refer your students and
non-linguist friends to Ask-A-Linguist for answers to their language-
related questions.  And now you can also search 65 other linguistic
and linguistics-related mailing lists from our site.
	
We hope you feel that these services have already contributed
significantly to your teaching and research. But we have also been
hard at work this year implementing innovations and improvements,
most notably the improvement of the topic-sensitive search engine
and of the Dissertation Abstracts search engine.  In addition, we
have added The Jobs Information page and, to promote a sense of
community, The LINGUIST cookbook, in memory of Jim
McCawley.  We have also expanded the book announcement
service  and The Multi-List Archiving Project at
http://linguistlist.org/list-archives.html .
	
Many of these developments are a result of suggestions from you,
our subscribers. We asked for your input and you graciously
responded. And now we ask for your support. If you agree that
LINGUIST is as useful to the profession as we like to think, please
respond with a donation. It is only through your support that we can
pay our student editors and programmers; and the students are
what keep us in operation.
	
Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University support
us generously with machine maintenance, office space and
equipment, Internet connections, administrative help, and 2 student
assistantships.  But we have 9 students to fund; and we need
$35,000 in all to fund them.  We have already collected $12,000
thanks to the generosity of the persons and institutions listed at
the end of this message.  But we must raise the remaining amount
during this week's fund drive.
	
Last year 232 subscribers gave us a total of $14,680.  This year,
we hope to persuade many more of our 13,000 subscribers to
contribute, and to collect $20,000.  We also hope to do it in a
week, so that we do not need to disturb you again and again
throughout the year with calls for donations.
	
You can donate by credit card at
http://linguistlist.org/donation.html
or you can send a check made out to "The Linguist Editorial
Support Fund" to:

	The LINGUIST Editorial Support Fund
	c/o Helen Aristar-Dry
	Dept. of English Language and Linguistic
	Eastern Michigan University
	Ypsilanti, MI 48197

Or you can simply hit "Reply" to this message, make a pledge by
email, and send your check later.

In return for a donation of $30 or more, we would like to send you a
snazzy, dark blue LINGUIST T-shirt or sweatshirt. These were a big
hit at the Linguistic Society of America convention, and many of
you asked us where you could get one.  So click
http://linguistlist.org/funddrive.html for styles and prices, as well as
photos of our fashion-conscious staff modeling this oh-so-elegant
casual attire!  And, if you want a T-shirt, be sure to include your
size, style preference, and a snail-mail address with your check or
email pledge.

Before closing we would like to express our sincere gratitude to those
who have already sent in a 2000 donation, as well as to those who
stopped by our "office" at the LSA convention and made a
donation. Their names are listed on our website at
http://linguistlist.org/contributors.html .
	
It was truly heartening to meet you and hear your encouraging words
about LINGUIST.


Thank you in advance for your 2000 donation.

The LINGUIST Staff:  Anthony, Andrew, Helen, John, Karen, Scott,
Jody, Lydia, Naomi, James, Qian, Sudhi, Ljuba
	


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