The following is a detailed description of the LCMND's Activities as reflected in the Circle's Proceedings. It is taken from the UM's online catalogue BISON. A complete set of the Proceedings is held at the University of Manitoba Archives

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Volume number 36 for the 1996 Meeting in Winnipeg, Marlborough Hotel, was not issued until the year 2000 due to the 1997 Red River of the North Flood disaster which affected the editor at that time, Tim Messenger in Gand Forks, particularly hard. Even the much belated volume was far from complete, which is why it must be seen in conjunction with a copy of the 1996 Programme which has been placed in the collection next to the incomplete 1996 Proceedings.

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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-)

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Kept with a complete run of issues of the LCMND 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 [covers with logos, imprint, lay-out, etc.).
The 1996 volume of the Circle's first full-text publication covering fifteen selected presentations given by members during the years 1989-1993 [inserted chronologically after the 1996 Winnipeg Program & belated fragmentary v. 36 (1996)].
The Circle's second full-text publication covering the years 1994-2000 was added to the Collection in 2002.
See also detailed Bison record for these two books.

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Vol. 3, no.1 (1961)-v. 3, no. 2 (1962) constitute the 5th and 6th conference respectively.

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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 English "word" in various printing types important in the history of printing.

With the Twentieth Anniversary issue in 1979, [v.18-19, 1978/79, yellow cover] a logo designed by Theodore [Tim] Messenger was adopted. It shows a map of North Dakota and Manitoba with an overlaid circle formed by the group's name, and has been in use, with minor variations, ever since.

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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.

Conferences were held twice yearly during 1959 and 1960 only, generating Proceedings v.1, no.1-2, and v.2, no.1-2.
v.3, nos.1-2 reflect the Circle's 5th meeting held at the UND in the spring of 1961 [misleadingly called "the Fifth ANNUAL conference"], and the 6th conference held at the UM in April 1962.

From then on, conferences were held in the fall, alternating between the UND in Grand Forks and the UM in Winnipeg until 1982 when the Canadian conference was hosted by the University of Winnipeg (UW) for the first time. -- The UW has hosted the Annual LCMND Meetings again in 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, and in 2006). -- The NDSU has hosted conferences in Fargo for the first time in 1991, 1997, 2001, and again in 2006, which marked the 50th Conference and was celebrated with a Golden Anniversary Issue of the Proceedings [ca. 170 p.]. -- The 1995 and the 2005 meetings were held at Minot State University (MSU) in Minot, N.D.

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Issues for the annual conference Proceedings from v. 4, 1963 to v. 11, 1971 still carried the misleading designation "no. 1", although no "number 2" was ever produced during these eight years, nor ever thereafter.

Each volume of the Proceedings is individually described in the UM Libraries' online catalogue BISON.

Volume 25, 1985, the so-called "Silver Anniversary Issue" because of its silver cover lists "Officers of the Linguistic Circle, 1959-1986," and has a complete index to the Circle's Proceedings reflecting all papers presented at the Twenty-Eight Conferences up to 1985.
Volume 47, 2007, marked the Circle's Fiftieth Conference with a similar "Golden Anniversary Issue", including lists of "Officers of the Linguistic Circle, 1959-2007," and the papers presented at the Circle's fifty conference meetings from 1959-2007.

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LCMND Presidents were: 1959, D. J. Georgacas, UND; 1960, G. P. Goold, UM; 1961, N. B. Levin, UND; 1962, Enid G. Marantz, UM; 1963, F. Y. St. Clair, UND; 1964, E. G. Berry, UM; 1965, W. I.Morgan, UND;[1966 meeting not held]; 1967 & 1968, R. A. Caldwell, UND; 1969, C. Meredith Jones, UM; 1970, L. Palanca, UND; 1971, J. B. Rudnyckyj, UM; 1972, R. F. Hampsten, UND; 1973, H. O. Wiebe, UM; 1974, P. J. Schwartz, UND; 1975, H. Bessason, UM; 1976, Ben L. Collins, UND; 1977, R. T. Carter, UM; 1978-1979, B. F. O. Hildebrandt, UND; 1979-1980, J. J. Gahan, UM; 1981, Mary Ellen Caldwell, UND; 1982, Carol Harvey, UW; 1983, Esther Leser, UND; 1984, A. L. [Sandy] Gordon, UM; 1985, W. I. Morgan, UND; 1986, Donna Norell, UM; 1989, T. Messenger, UND; 1990, Iain McDougall, UW; 1991,Muriel Brown, NDSU; 1992, Rory B. Egan, UM; 1993, Ken E. Hall, UND; 1994, Neil Besner, UW; 1995, Harold Smith, Minot; 1996, Gaby Divay, UM; 1997, Chandice Johnson, NDSU; 1998, Mavis Reimer, UW; 1999, William Archibald, UND; 2000, Constance Cartmill, UM; 2001, Chandice Johnson, NDSU; 2002, Jacqueline McLeod Rogers, UW; 2003, Daniel Erickson, UND; 2004, Enrique Fernandez, UM; 2005, Robert Kibler, MSU; 2006, Elizabeth Dawes, UW; 2007, Dale Sullivan & Chandice Johnson, NDSU.

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This bulk of the collection, including some rare early volumes, was donated to RBR by Professor E. Annandale in July, 1997. Former Presidents Donna Norell, Sandy Gordon, & others contributed to the originally sketchy early records. 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 completing the archival collection.
Sandy Gordon's gift was sent unbound [10x14 inches, legal paper] in May 2000, and copies of v. 1 (1959) - v. 19 (1979) could 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 the Elizabeth Dafoe Library.