29.1450, A Letter from Featured Staff Clare Harshey

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1450. Tue Apr 03 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1450, A Letter from Featured Staff Clare Harshey

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Editor for this issue: Clare Harshey <clare at linguistlist.org>
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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:30:05
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: A Letter from Featured Staff Clare Harshey

 
Dear LINGUIST Listers,

My name is Clare, and if you've contacted us recently about a job, support,
internship or book review, we've probably met through email! Those are the
areas I manage for the LINGUIST List as one of our Student Editors. I'm
writing you today to tell you about who I am, what I do, and why I believe the
LINGUIST List deserves your support!

I've worked at the LINGUIST List for almost two years, but I first started as
an summer intern in 2016. Being selected for that opportunity was one of the
most exciting experiences of my life, and I spent the summer working on our
Yiddish Speech Corpus, learning a lot of new software and new methodologies.
At the end of the summer I was able to take on new responsibilities,
eventually leading to my position as an editor today.

During the two years I've been here, I've worked toward an MS in Computational
Linguistics (with any luck, I'll be graduating a month from now!). The
LINGUIST List provided support throughout my degree, as it has throughout the
years for many student employees. Not only have I benefited from this
financial support, but I've also grown professionally here, being in a unique
position to contact a wide range of linguists and language enthusiasts around
the world!

One thing that might surprise a visitor to the LINGUIST List is just how small
our office is! Aside from our moderators, there are only a handful of students
who run the day-to-day operations of the list. We have four editors, and
together we edit and publish about 6,000 issues per year. We also have three
programmers, who together maintain our website, database, and develop our new
website. We are all graduate students with ambitious schedules, but we are all
in the office every day of the week, fielding new submissions, reader
questions, technical problems, and anything else that may pop up. We even
handle quite a bit of work at night, on weekends and on most holidays!

On any given day in the office, I will post any new jobs, support or
internship announcements, communicating with their submitters about any
content-related concerns. I want to make sure that every issue goes out with
all the accurate information a reader would need. I will also edit reviews
submissions and communicate with our reviews team about the many ins and outs
of the reviews process: book requests, ordering reviews copies from the
publishers, finding missing reviews copies, and much more! Most days, we also
have one or more meetings in the office to discuss problems that have come up
and progress toward new goals. The editors often work closely with our
programmers to address technical problems, and we are all very familiar with
each others' work, so we can be flexible and continue to post as usual in any
circumstance.

We often get comments from colleagues in other fields about how useful the
LINGUIST List is, and how they wish their field had a similar resource. The
truth is, our operation IS very unique, with an extremely small team making
high quality information available, for everyone, for free! We're all
linguists, too, so we're passionate about what we do. But we could not do it
without the support of our readers. 

When you support the LINGUIST List, you're supporting the students who are
able to get their degree by working here. But not just that--you're supporting
open access to valuable information; you're supporting the careers of young
linguists who need resources like ours to find their first job or their first
conference; you're supporting the future of an institution that has been, in
turn, supporting linguists for almost 30 years. 

Thanks for reading, and thanks again for your generosity through the years. I
am sincerely grateful, and so are my colleagues! If you haven't already,
please visit us at http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/ and consider showing
your support today.

Sincerely,

Clare Harshey







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