English Department News

           

November 17, 1999

         

Volume 2, No. 8




November 17

 

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, HC 9030D, 1:10 p.m.

November 17

 

Professorial Faculty meeting, HC 3104, 3:10 p.m.

November 22-26

 

Thanksgiving Holiday

December 1

 

Graduate Studies Committee meeting, HC 9030D, 1:10 p.m.

December 2

 

Classes End

December 3

 

Dead Day

December 3

 

Instructional Technology Workshop, HC 3116, 10:00 a.m. to noon

December 4-9

 

Final Exams for Quarter

December 11

 

Graduation

January 4, 2000

 

Classes begin for Winter Quarter

January 24, 2000

 

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Roger Penrose, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

February 7, 2000

 

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Margaret Wertheim, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

February 14, 2000

 

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Richard Leakey, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

April 24, 2000

 

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, Helen Thomas, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.

May 18, 2000

 

Littleton-Franklin Lectures, William Phillips, Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, 4:00 p.m.


Library Offers New Service

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) is now available via the web through the Auburn University Libraries.  The new service has the same coverage as the old CD-ROM (1973-present) and can accommodate four simultaneous users.  It can be accessed both on-campus and off-campus through the libraries' Indexes and Databases Page
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/indexesbytitle.html  or through the following URL http://aubiecat.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/llba.cgi?pg=ip.
Please contact Robert McDonald at the AU Libraries if you have any questions.

Final Issue

The November 17th issue of The English Channel is the final one for fall quarter.   Publication will resume on Wednesday, January 12, 2000 (if all the Y2K bugs have been eradicated). Thanks again for your contributions.


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