October in MuscatĪ formal announcement about the next IASA Conference in Muscat, Oman will be made in due course. Applications will be considered as and when the Board meets, so the next chance will be at the mid-year meeting 26-27th February and then at Annual Conference in October. Anyone planning a project which concerns the interests of IASA and which requires start-up funding or which requires financial support for work already underway is invited to apply to the Secretary General in writing (address above). Research grants are also available to assist in carrying out specific projects and these are always open for application. Please send your application to: IASA Secretary General, Albrecht Häfner, Südwestfunk, Sound Archives, D-76522 Baden-Baden, Germany.
Notification of awards will be sent to applicants during March and April. If you know that your application will not be ready in time, please notify the Secretary General of your intention to apply and forward your application as soon as possible after the above deadline. However, exceptions will be made this year for late applications due to the lateness of this Bulletin. Proposals for travel grants to attend the Muscat conference must be received by the Secretary General of IASA by 24th February 1997 in order to be considered at the mid-year Board meeting to be held 26-27th February 1997. IASA Committees may also consider bringing members from less developed countries to join the conference and share their experiences.įunding for grants is limited and they will only cover a proportion of the costs involved. Your application will be strengthened if you can demonstrate that such participation is current or planned. Individuals submitting requests are required to be currently paid-up members of IASA and willing to participate in the work of IASA. The purposes of the travel grants are to encourage active participation at the IASA annual conferences by those who have no alternative funding and to encourage continuing participation in the work of IASA. Members are invited to apply for travel grants for assistance to attend the Muscat, Oman Conference in October. Peter and I and the ARSC Treasurer, Steve Ramm, are discussing mutually beneficial approaches to collecting dues, with the aim of ensuring two things: firstly, to make life a little easier for members and secondly, to make sure that a higher percentage of membership dues ends up in IASA and ARSC coffers rather than in the banks'. With the invoices being sent out in 1997 I have been offering those North American IASA/ARSC joint members the option of mailing their cheques direct to the ARSC Executive Director in the United States: Peter Schambarger, ARSC, P.O. However, for 1997, options have been explored which will, in the first instance, make things easier for those IASA members who are also members of ARSC, and particularly those living in North America who do not have the benefit of European GIRO exchange. The global spread of membership as well as IASA's relatively small size remains a headache for the Treasurer. New Arrangements for Paying SubscriptionsĪs members may know, we are continually trying to explore easier and more efficient ways of collecting membership dues. This will be known as the IASA Directory and will be ready for distribution to all members in February. IASA's hard-pressed Editor and Treasurer have finished compiling the replacement for the 1989 Membership List. Members wishing to add information about their organisations to the IASA pages must send their contribution as ASCII files, on disc or via e-mail to: R Iestyn Hughes, Assistant Keeper National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3BU, U.K. Member institutions which have their own URLs are encouraged to send them to Iestyn, by conventional post or by e-mail, so that links may be provided from the IASA pages to their own institutions. The internet address for the new IASA homepage is Iestyn Hughes writes: "The IASA "homepage" should be launched on Monday 27 January 1997.
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