NERALLD March 1997 Newsletter

Spring Meeting Friday April 4, 1997

The NERALLD Spring meeting will be Friday April 4, 1997 at the Geddes Language Center at Boston University. The topic for this conference will be Lab Management, and will feature presentations from a number of NERALLD members on a variety of aspects of managing a facility. Bruce Parkhurst (BU) will display Geddes' materials catalog and circulation system, Ruth Trometer (MIT) will present her system for equipment inventory, attendance, materials catalog, staff duties and daily calendar, Steve Smolnik (Connecticut College) will demonstrate the circulation system, internal e-mailer, and student job book in use in his lab, Inge Brown (Dartmouth) will demonstrate Dartmouth's system of tracking student attendance, Charles Long (Choate Rosemary Hall) will present his circulation system, and Chris Alberg (Boston College) will display the system used at Wellesley for recording and documenting various types of media services requests.

Register by contacting Bruce Parkhurst directly at this address, or by email, by March 24:
NERALLD c/o PARKHURST
Geddes Language Center
Boston University
725 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

brucep@bu.edu

Be sure to also indicate your menu preference for lunch. You may include a check for $8 with your registration or you may bring it with you on the 4th. We also accept cash.

AGENDA
GLC staff at the Checkout Window on the 5th floor will know exactly where the NERALLD group is at any given moment. If you arrive late, or get lost, contact GLC at the window or at 353-2640.

8:30 - 9:00 Meet and Greet. Juice, caffeine and carbs
9:00 - 10:00 Geddes Language
Tour and database demo - GLC staff
10:00 - 11:00 TOPIC session - lab management
11:00 - 11:45 Box lunch, at GLC or outdoors
12:00 - 1:00 Ctr. for English Language & Orientation Programs
Tour of digital lab - John de Szendeffy
1:15 - 2:00 Business Meeting
2:00 - 3:30 TOPIC session - lab management


LUNCH
Sliced Roast Beef and Boursin Cheese, on a Croissant
Country Potato Salad
or
Grilled Chicken Breast Sandwich, on a Kaiser Roll
Thai Vegetable Salad

Vegetarian? Contact Bruce for explanation of your options


Please specify your choice BEEF or CHICKEN,
and what you'd like to drink: Soda, VeryFine Juice, or Milk
**Note from the host!! Space for this April's meeting is limited to 35 people. I would be delighted and surprised if so many people wanted to come! If we reach peak, dues-paying members will be given priority. Get your reservations in early!

OOPS!
Our apologies for the schedule conflict with the 1997 Northeast Conference in New York City which will be taking place April 3-6. For more information on that event, check out the web page at
http://agoralang.com/agora/orgs/Northeast/

NERALLD Business Meeting Agenda 4/4/97:
- Participate in the creation of a music video
- Upcoming FLEAT III conference news
- Summer Advisory Group announcement
- Progress on NERALLD Operational Guidelines
- Member announcements (bring your own!)
- New business


NEWS FROM IALL

Come to the FLEAT III conference! (a.k.a. IALL '97)

FLEAT (Foreign Language Education and Technology) is a joint conference of the International Association of Learning Laboratories (IALL) and the Language Learning Association of Japan (LLA).

Mark your calendars for August 12 - 16. The FLEAT III site is the University of Victoria, in Victoria (Vancouver Island), British Columbia, Canada. The theme for this year's conference is Languages, Resources, and Cultures.

If you've never been to the Pacific Northwest, you are in for a major treat, among other things the Butchart Gardens, Craigdarroch Castle, and Pacific Rim National Park. If you are combing conference attendance with a family vacation, then there couldn't be a better site for this conference.

For more information, check out:
http://ikra.call.uvic.ca/LangCen/FLEAT/fleat1.html or e-mail FLEATIII@CALL.UVIC.CA


IALL Board News (edited minutes from the January 22 meeting)

The IALL Management Manual still awaits the copyright module, scheduled to be ready by March. The introduction, table of contents, and introductory paragraph to each module, written by Robin Lawrason (Temple University), can be accessed via the IALL homepage:
http://eleazar.dartmouth.edu/IALL

LOCALLY GARAGED WELCOME WAGON
Our very own Ed Dente (Tufts University) has agreed to serve as IALL's New Membership Manager. Checks and applications for new memberships will go to Ed Dente, who will initiate contact with new members, welcoming them to IALL. Congratulations, Ed!

VIDEO TOURS TAPE
"Video Tours" are a popular feature of every IALL conference. Guidelines for preparing and submitting a videotaped tour of your lab facilities are to have been posted on LLTI in mid-February.

MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS BENEFITS
The IALL membership year consists of 12 months and three Journal issues, not to mention the member's registration fee for the IALL conference.
more IALL news...

IALL MEMBERSHIP SUMMARY, 1996
Total membership: 377 voting, 21 commercial, 110 Library, 9 students.

IALL SOFTWARE DATABASE
In January , the database was moved to a new format to facilitate searching and on-line editing. You can find it at:
http://eleazar.dartmouth.edu/fldb

MEMORIAL SERVICES
There will be individual memorial services for Robert Henderson and Marie Sheppard at the beginning of the FLEAT III conference. Anyone interested in participating, please contact
Jackie Tanner: jmtanner@colby.edu or
LeeAnn Stone: lstone@uci.edu

IALL '99
A request for proposed sites for the 1999 is underway. Ursula Williams has agreed to coordinate and facilitate the search for a new conference site. The new host will make a brief presentation at FLEAT III.


How to drive to NERALLD...
(REGISTRATION INCLUDES A PARKING PERMIT)
Directions to the Boston University Charles River Campus:

From the North
Take I-93 or Route 1 South to Boston. Exit onto Storrow Drive (Exit 26). Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore exit. Follow local directions below.

From the Southeast
Take I-93 Route 3 (Southeast Expressway) North to Boston. Exit onto Storrow Drive (Exit 26). Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore exit. Follow local directions below.

From the South or West
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) East to Exit 18, Brighton/Cambridge. Exit left. Follow signs to Cambridge to the second set of lights. Turn right at the lights; this is Soldiers Field Road/Storrow Drive. Exit Storrow Drive at the Kenmore exit. Follow local directions below.

By Public Transportation
Boston University is easily accessible by public transportation. The "B" branch of the MBTA Green Line passes through the campus along Commonwealth Avenue. Get off at the above-ground stop called "Boston University East."Follow directions for entering the building in second paragraph, below.

Local Directions
From the Kenmore Square/Commonwealth Avenue exit of Storrow Drive: At the first set of traffic lights, turn right onto Beacon Street. At this point, the road forks; the right fork is Bay State Road. Take Bay State Road and follow it for several blocks until you see a castle-like building on the right (appropriately named The Castle), and a large stone marker on the median, engraved with the university name. Go forward and give your parking pass to the attendant, and turn left into the lot. You are directly behind the building which houses the language lab. Look for a down ramp to nter the building, into the basement. Follow the signs to the elevator. The Geddes Language Center is on the 5th floor.

If the lot behind the building is full, exit the lot the way you entered. Turn right at The Castle (you have little other choice). At the traffic light, turn left onto Comm., then immediately take your first right. Turn right again into the garage under the triple-tower dorm high-rise, and park. Keep left; give your permit to the attendant. Park and exit. Once outside the garage, cross Comm Ave, and enter 685 Comm. via the large exterior stairway with three sets of bronze double doors, into the lobby of the Tsai Performance Center. Take one of the lobby elevators to the Geddes Language Center on the 5th floor.

If you arrive on campus without your permit, stop at any blue police call box on campus, press "on" and dial 3-2640. Explain your plight. We will help in any way we can.

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Posted March 7, 1997 by Michael Nieckoski