Indeed, please extend my welcome to him! How was the meeting in North Carolina? No need to answer that personally; I know that materials will find their way to me. We missed you in Toronto. A mere 3600 people registered for the conference! Oi! But it was a VERY exciting time and beautifully run. Next time.....Detroit (moved from Ann Arbor) Oct. 25-28, 2001. Please join us! >Dear Board of Trustees: > >I am very happy to report that Dr. Michael Taft will be joining the >American Folklife Center staff on February 5, 2001, as a senior >Folklife Specialist. The staff and I are extremely excited with his >appointment, and we are looking forward to working with him on many of >the projects that we have up and running, especially the Save Our >Sounds preservation effort. > >Dr. Taft received his PhD in Folklore from Memorial University of >Newfoundland in 1977. He completed post-doctoral work in Folklore at >Universite Laval in Quebec, and he received his Master of Library and >Information Sciences from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1996. > >Taft has over 25 years of experience in folklife programming and >archival management. He was named the Laura Boulton Senior Research >Fellow for the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University >(1993). Among his positions, Dr. Taft served as the Archivist of the >Southern Folklife collection at the University of North Carolina at >Chapel Hill and as the founding Archivist for the Vermont Folklife >Center. Most recently he comes to us from the University of Northern >British Columbia, where he has been the University Archivist and Head >of Special Collections. > >Taft's resume includes over 50 publications in folklore and folklife, >spanning the period from 1974 to the present, and he has been a >professor and public lecturer over this same time period. > >I know that you join me in welcoming Michael Taft to the AFC staff. > >Best, > >Peggy > >Peggy A. Bulger, Director >American Folklife Center >Library of Congress >101 Independence Ave, SE >Washington, DC 20540-4610 >(202) 707-1745 >FAX (202) 707-2076 >[log in to unmask] >http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/