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linguistlist.org>Dear Linguists, By now many of you may have explored the new area of the LINGUIST site called "People & Organizations" and found that it not only facilitates collegial interchange of many sorts, but also offers you a wealth of information about your colleagues and their professional endeavors. Whether you want to find housing in Sheffield (NoticeBoard: http://linguistlist.org/~notice/msg00010.html), the address of the Argentine Linguistics Society, or projects devoted to sign language, the "People and Organizations" index page (http://saussure.linguistlist.org/people/) is the place to start. In addition to NoticeBoard, Ask-A-Linguist, and of course the LINGUIST Cookbook, it organizes links to 120 linguistics associations and 175 research sites, professional information on over 5000 linguists, and the email addresses of 15,500 linguists, in 103 countries of the world. However, what we are most proud of - and what we hope you will find most useful - is the fact that all the information in "People & qOrganizations" is INTEGRATED, both with other information on our site (such as publications information) and with information on languages and linguistic subfields. So, for example, if you go to our Directory of Linguists (http://linguistlist.org/personal/) and click first on 'C' then on "Carnie, Andrew," you'll see that our fellow moderator (who will be surprised to encounter himself in this example) happens to work on Celtic. Celtic is clickable on Andrew's directory page; selecting it will take you to a tree showing the Celtic language family with each of the branches clickable as well. And if you click all the way to the ends of the branches you will access - thanks to the generosity of the Ethnologue, who gave us their database - descriptions of all the languages in the Celtic group, from Gammon to Irish Traveler's Cant. Now, if you return to Andrew's page in the LINGUIST directory, you will find that it is linked to all the books he has announced on LINGUIST, all the academic papers he has put into our database, the reviews he has written, and even the abstract of his dissertation, since it is one of the 571 dissertation abstracts now in our collection. So one type of integration LINGUIST offers is integration of information about linguists, their publications, and their language interests - all available from the relevant LINGUIST Directory pages. There is another kind of integration, however, which allows you to retrieve information about people, organizations, projects, and publications via a language or subfield search. If you want to find ALL the linguists that work on Celtic languages (or Maori, for that matter, or Itza, or Kannada, or Japanese ...) all you need to do is return to the Personal Directory index page and select "Browse by Subject Language." If you want to find all the books and journals and dissertation abstracts on Maori, go to the Publications index page (http://saussure.linguistlist.org/pubs/), scroll to the bottom, and search by subject language. (We've announced 2 books on Maori, and if you go to these book announcements, you will find that they in turn are linked to their reviews and the linguists who reviewed them.) Similar searches can be performed for linguistic associations and research sites: are you aware of the project websites devoted to Maasai, Ladin, and Dutch Sign Language? Or the societies devoted to Catalan, Pampangan, Motu Hiri, and Western Farsi? Our new site integration makes it easy to find any project or institution devoted to a language; in this way, we hope to facilitate your language-oriented research. We also hope to facilitate your keeping up with the projects, societies, people, and publications related to your linguistic subfield. For example, if you want to find the publications we list on forensic linguistics (9 books and 1 review), this information is available via the subfield search on the publications index page. If you want to find linguists specializing in forensic linguistics, you can search for these from the Personal Directory index page. At present there are only 3 forensic linguists listed (as opposed to about 300 syntacticians); but new entries are currently being added to our Directory at the rate of about 10 a day. If you have not yet added your own professional information, please do so by going to the People & Organizations index page and clicking on "log in." We ask you to establish a log-in so that you can update your own information securely. And, as has been the case since LINGUIST's inception, access to everything on our site is completely free. 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linguistlist.org>Dear subscribers, We thought you'd like to hear from some of the students your funds are supporting. So this year each fund drive issue will include a brief paragraph from one of our editors telling you, their sponsors, about their work with LINGUIST. And now, a few words from Naomi Ogasawara... I am proud to know that we at LINGUIST List have been making a great contribution to the linguistic community through our services. That makes me feel that I am connected with thousands of linguists all over the world, and that I am a part of the community. Before working for LINGUIST List, I had never touched a computer--no computer experience at all. Now I am involved in creating our new websites! I still have tons of things to learn, but I am surprised how much I have improved my computer skills. I am really grateful to LINGUIST List for giving me the great opportunity to study linguistics and also to learn computer skills. Another good thing is the people. I really enjoy working with the wonderful crew. When the day comes for me to leave LINGUIST List, I am sure I will cry a lot. Naomi Ogasawara To make a donation to LINGUIST, go to: http://linguistlist.org/donate.html To see and read more about Naomi, go to: http://linguistlist.org/people/naomi.htmlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue