The minutes of the 1995 meeting were distributed, reviewed, and accepted. The 1997 issue will be somewhat slimmer in volume but will have a nice variety of articles reflecting a broad span of research on literature from a number of literary traditions.
Institutional subscriptions are up slightly.
While a number of book reviews had been commissioned, there were still some books available for any board members interested in writing reviews. Stanford University Press Longman, and Columbia University Press have demonstrated increasing coverage of comparative literature topics. Old Business Discussion of the Newsletter centered around the possibility of setting up a listserve or using email to send news to the membership. A home page on the web could also serve as a means not only of providing news to the membership but also of attracting an even broader audience, in particular, by publishing some papers on the web. We need to come up with another site.