Join us for the 2007 TAA Conference at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo in downtown Buffalo, NY, June 22-23

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Book Raffle
IIL Publishing, New York will raffle four books at the 2007 TAA Conference
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Coming to Buffalo? Put these two books on your reading list
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Trip to Niagara Falls by Geronimo Stilton (Scholastic)
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Mentoring Sessions
Several veteran authors have agreed to serve as mentors at the conference. Attendees will be able to sign up at the conference registration desk for 15-minute sessions with a mentor. A list of mentors will be available soon.

Roundtable Discussions Luncheon
Saturday, June 23
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Choose from 10 different moderated roundtable discussions related to textbook and academic authoring.
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Dinner at The Anchor Bar
Thursday, June 21, 6 p.m.
The restaurant where Buffalo-style wings were invented
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Buffalo, NY Waterfront Tour
Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Take a guided tour of the Buffalo waterfront
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Karpeles Manuscript Musuem and Library Tour
Friday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
View Walt Disney illustrations and documents, among others
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Social Networking Event: A Chartered 3-hour Dinner Cruise Aboard the Grand Lady
Friday, June 22, 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Four-hour Guided Tour to Niagara Falls (American side)
Saturday, June 23, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tour full.
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Free one-on-one sessions with an authoring attorney or literary agent
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Editing a collective volume of papers from a conference
Presenter: Richard Hull, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo, and editor of several book series, including Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association

Saturday, June 23
8:15 - 9:15 a.m.
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Academic may serve their own interests and provide significant professional support to professional associations and conferences by editing and publishing proceedings from meetings. This presentation seeks to encourage this activity by covering the steps of the process of assembling such volumes, locating publishers, and preparing the volume for publication. It will identify some of the obstacles and pitfalls and offer suggestions for avoiding them. Other topics to be covered include: obtaining permissions, avoiding copyright violation, editing language to the publisher's style sheet, dealing with obstreperous and chronically late contributors, indexing, and proofreading. Finally, some realism regarding the likelihood of significant royalties will be communicated.

The purpose of this presentation is to stimulate participants to consider becoming editors of collective volumes for their departments and professional organizations. Drawing on his experiences editing and producing some dozen collective volumes, Hull will pose each step in the process as a set of problems to participants in order to stimulate collective problem solving. Participants will be invited to utilize TAA's listserve to continue discussion of the issues raised in the session and arising in their editing projects.

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