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Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

My name is Fatemeh Abdollahi, and I am the Publications Manager 
for The LINGUIST List. I am currently in my last year of my 
undergraduate studies here at Eastern Michigan University, and 
it seems like just yesterday when I was writing my first letter 
for fund drive four years ago! During this time at LINGUIST List 
(working as their youngest hire to date), I have learned so much 
about the discipline, about you as our subscribers, and about so 
many other aspects of acadamia. 

As Publications Manager for The LINGUIST List, I am in charge of 
ensuring the dissemination of materials relating to - you guessed 
it - publications in linguistics. We distribute a variety of these 
materials, such as Book Abstracts, Book Reviews (handled by our 
reviews team at The University of Wisconsin at Madison) Journal 
calls for Papers, Journal Table of Contents announcements, Software 
in Linguistics, and also maintain a database of Journals and 
publishers currently active in Linguistics. Our publications materials 
are quite extensive, with 1115 books, and 379 Journal Table of 
Contents announcements distributed within the past year alone, 
LINGUIST List serves as the premier site for nearly all announcements 
in Linguistics.

In addition to being a mailing list, LINGUIST List also serves as a 
research organization, working on several projects that are open access 
for the linguistics community at all times. I have been privileged to 
work on several of these, such as MultiTree, GOLD Ontology, and currently 
LL-Map, "a project designed to integrate language information with data 
from the physical and social sciences by means of a Geographical 
Information System (GIS)." The region of the world I have mainly 
focused on is Central-South America, viewable at llmap.org! In addition 
to my work on these grants, I have served as the manager for Publicity 
for LINGUIST List. In this role I have been responsible for making you, 
our users, aware of the many projects and features we are constantly 
completing for your use. 

LINGUIST List is an incredibly unique organization. In no other 
discipline is there a source that is a central hub for all materials 
in that discipline. We announce to you, free of charge, information 
on jobs, conferences, journal calls for papers, and a plethora of 
other topics. In addition to this we house hundreds of mailing lists, 
web resources, blogs, and more. If any of you have used LINGUIST List 
for a job search, a review submission, or even to keep track of recent 
publications of books in Linguistics, PLEASE DONATE TO LINGUIST List 
TODAY! Your donations not only help keep LINGUIST List up and running, 
but help fund the educations of us students who post your submissions, 
and develop this site for your use! LINGUIST List is a non-profit 
organization run by donations from users like you. Any amount would be 
appreciated, and will help us to keep our services to you free. 

Please donate today at: 

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Best Wishes,

Fatemeh Abdollahi

This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help 
keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year.

See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out Fund 
Drive 2011 site!

http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2011/

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