ACL ARCHIVES (Richard Sproat)
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2000 Report on the ACL Archives

Late in 1999, at the request of various officers of the ACL, I agreed
to become the archivist for the ACL. The feeling was that there were
various and sundry documents relating to the ACL organization and
procedures which were worth preserving, but which had not been
collected into one place, and were therefore hard to find. My first
job was therefore to collect such material. Some of this was provided
to me directly, and the rest I collected from one ACL officer's
archived e-mail correspondence related to the Association. The next
task was to set up the website, which I did in December of 1999. The
archives may now be accessed at http://www.aclweb.org/archive/.

The purpose of the Archives is to store any material relating to the
ACL deemed worthy of preservation. This includes, but is not limited
to, offical documents (e.g. constitutions, foundation documents),
officer reports, guidelines (e.g. program committee guidelines, local
organizer's guidelines) and lists of past and present officers of the
ACL.

The current top-level page contains the following entries:

- ACL Official Documents (3 items) 

- ACL Society Guidelines and Reports (16 items)

- Current and Past Officers of the ACL (4 lists)

- Some Notes on ACL History (1 report)

- ACL Exec Private Area (4 items)

Note that the Private Area is password protected.

The Archives will only remain useful if people contribute archival
material to keep it up to date. Such material can be submitted to me
directly at archivist@aclweb.org.


Richard Sproat
ACL Archivist
archivist@aclweb.org