LCMND Proceedings, 1959- [BISON Bibl. Record]
LCMND: Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota

LCMND Proceedings

Reflecting the Circle's Conference Programs since 1959
Complete run in the UM's Periodical Collections & Archival Collection Mss 166

See Online Programs (since 1996) & Contents of all LCMND Conference Proceedings, 1959-
NOTE:
Not Commercially available. Distributed to Members only.

Electronic Issues
LCMND e-Proceedings with v. 2009
The Fiftieth LCMND Anniversary, 1959-2009

with v. 2009, the LCMND's 50th ANNIVERSARY, 1959-2009


With v. 2010, LCMND stands for:
Languages & Cultures Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota


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