Perspectives AHA to Publish Membership Directory At its January meeting, the AHA Council approved a proposal to publish an AHA membership directory as part of the Directory of History Departments and Organizations . Townsend estimated that this would have the added benefit of significantly expanding the Directory s coverage of the profession, adding information on about 7,000 historians who had previously been excluded. Nonmembers listed in the Directory will have only their institutional affiliation and e-mail addresses listed, as in the past. The data for the membership directory will be pulled out of the membership database on May 15, to allow enough time for basic proofreading of the data. A sample version of each member s directory listing will be provided when the member logs in to the member services area of the web site.
Members can also ask to be included in the online directory.
The Directory has enjoyed a significant boost in sales over the past year, thanks to the new Member Services Program, which allows members to subscribe to additional AHA publications. However, according to Townsend, the costs and sales of the next edition will need to be assessed later in the fall to determine whether this will be done on an annual basis.