III. B. CONVENTION MANAGER/ASSISTANT CONVENTION MANAGER
 
                     III. B. 1. CHARGE AND PROCEDURES
 
      The Convention Manager and Assistant Convention Manager are authorized
by the President and the Board to coordinate and oversee the planning of
national meetings of the association.  The Convention Manager oversees the
technical and onsite management of national meetings.  For meetings being
planned, the Convention Manager serves as liaison among the Program Committee
chair, the chair of the Local Arrangements Committee and its budget officer,
the publicity officer, the chair of the Education Committee (if a pre-
conference workshop is being planned), the Executive Secretary and the Board.
The Convention Manager negotiates with hotels for future meetings, signs
contracts (countersigned by the President) to secure accommodations for
meeting and sleeping rooms and makes all solicitations and arrangements
concerning exhibitors whose publications, products and services are displayed
at meetings.
 
      The Convention Manager assists the Program Committee and local
arrangements chairs in preparing the program proposal and prepares the budget
for the national meeting in consultation with the Fiscal Officer,
transmitting these to the Board and the Finance Committee respectively.  At
each annual meeting the Convention Manager reports on recent, current and
future national meetings.  The Convention Manager maintains relevant
documents and statistics, making them available as needed to the Executive
Secretary, to the Board and to planning committees, and when appropriate,
submits papers and correspondence and convention material from the
registration packets to the MLA Archives.  Intended to serve both as
historical records of conventions and as aids to future convention
committees, such documents and statistics include:
 
            1. Convention Manager's manual.
            2. Manual for MLA Program Committee and local arrangements
                  chairs, to be sent to these officers when they are newly
                  appointed, with encouragement to suggest revisions that
                  will be helpful to their successors.
            3. Financial reports submitted following the conference by each
                  convention's budget officer.
            4. Statistics of numbers of paid registrants for workshops and
                  the meeting itself, hotel sleeping rooms reserved, banquet
                  registrants and number of exhibitors, to be sent to newly
                  appointed Program
                  Committee and local arrangements chairs.
            5. Others that are deemed appropriate.
 
                  III. B. 2. HONORARIUM/REIMBURSEMENT FOR
                         TRAVEL EXPENSES/PER DIEM
 
      The Convention Manager and Assistant Convention Manager receive an
honorarium. The Convention Manager and Assistant Convention Manager are
reimbursed for those expenditures for transportation, lodging and meals
(excluding alcoholic beverages) incurred in connection with MLA convention
business which are not paid by their institutions.  Requests for
reimbursement accompanied by receipts are submitted to the Treasurer.  In the
absence of receipts for meals, a per diem food allowance at the amount set by
the Board will be paid.