Author: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North
Dakota.
Title: Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle
of Manitoba and North Dakota (LCMND), 1959- : Archival Collection
MssSc 133]
Online Access: LCMND
Website (since 2000):
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/linguistic_circle/
Published: [Grand Forks, N.D. : Linguistic Circle
of Manitoba and North Dakota], 1959-
Subjects: Linguistics Congresses.
Literature Congresses.
Note: Vols. 6-7 (1965 & 1967), v. 16-17 (1976&1977),
and v. 18-19 (1978&1979), issued together.
Free to members. -- Not commercially available.
No Conference was held in 1966; double-issue v.VI & VII covers
the meetings of 1965 and 1967. -- No v. 36 for the 1996
Meeting in Winnipeg, Marlborough Hotel, was not issued until
1998, due to the 1997 Red River of the North Flood disaster which
affected editor Tim Messenger in Gand Forks particularly hard.
New Editor Chandice Johnson managed to collect only 11 of 36 abstracts,
making the 1996 LCMND Proccedings
(=v.36, of the 39th Conference) the thinnest in the entire collection.
A copy of the 1996 Program
has been placed in the collection along with v. 36; it was also
printed in the Volume itself.
Early issues published in Winnipeg, 1959-1977/1978 (v.1, no.1-v.16/17);
in Grand Forks, 1978-1995 (v.18-38); and in Fargo, 1996- (v.39-).
Contents: Kept with the issues of the LCMND's
Proceedings:
Folders containing lists of donated issues by Professor
Annandale, summer 1997, and copied from the 1985 Silver Anniversary
Issue; some copies of title- or cover-pages documenting the physical
changes of the publication [logos, imprint, lay-out, etc.); the
1996 & 2002 volumes of "Papers Presented to the Linguistic
Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota", printing full-text versions
of papers given at LCMND meetings. See also detailed Bison record
for these two books.
Note: Vol. 3, no.1 (1961)-v. 3, no. 2 (1962) constitute the 5th
and 6th conference respectively. -- The first 3 issues [v.I, no.1-2,
1959 & v.II, no.1, 1960] feature as cover design a circular
logo using "word" [in the centre] in various languages
(Verbum to the North, Logos to the East in Greek letters, Slovo
to the South in Russian capitals, and Wort to the West in Gothic
typeset).
With v. 2, no. 2 ( Nov. 1960) "word," "Wort,"
"verbum" "logos" and "slovo" are
arranged in an oblong rectangle placed in the left margin.
This cover was used for thirteen issues until v. 14, 1974.
Volumes 15, 1975 and the double-issue v. 16/17, 1976/77, show
prominently the English "word" in various types important
in the history of printing.
With the Twentieth Anniversary issue of v.18-19, 1978/79 [yellow
cover] a map logo designed by Theodore [Tim] Messenger
was adopted. It shows maps of North Dakota and Manitoba with an
overlaid circle formed by the group's name, and has been in use
[with very few exceptions] ever since.
Annotation:
The Linguistic Circle (LCMND) started out in 1959 as an initiative
by University of Manitoba and University of North Dakota professors.
It was intended to provide a cross-border forum for scholarly
exchange, and has been highly successful in realizing its aim
by organizing yearly conferences for some forty years in Winnipeg,
Grand Forks, Fargo, and Minot (1995). Apart from the founding
universities UM and UND, further administrative and financial
support was later provided by the University of Winnipeg, North
Dakota State University, and Minot State University who joined
the Circle as Institutional Members in 1980, 1985, and 1988 respectively.
Local Note: This bulk of collection was donated to RBR by many
LCMND members, including some rare early rare early volumes Professor
E. Annandale submitted in July, 1997. -- In May 1999, the Classics
Department of the University of Manitoba sent an unbroken run
from v. 1, no. 1, 1959 to v. 15, 1975 for the archival collection.
-- In May 2000, Sandy Gordon sent his unbound [10x14 inches, legal
paper] copies of v. 1 (1959) - v. 19 (1979) to be added.
The LCMND Proceedings also exist in bound volumes which are shelved
with other serials in in the Dewey collections on the third floor
of Dafoe Library [400 L647 Ci]. Some issues can be found in
St. Paul's Library [P 11 L7]. --
The LCMND's published yearly "Proceedings" reflect the
contents of its annual conferences by means of printed Abstracts
varying in length from one to three pages. There are also two
volumes of "Full-Text Proceedings" (1996 & 2002),
and, since 2003, an online, full-text journal entitled: "LCMND
e-Journal." --
Since 2000, the Circle has a website located at: http://www.umanitoba
Serial Summary:
Archives & Special Collection -- Mss Sc 166 (1959-2008)
Kept in 1 Box |