Toward Discrimination-free Language [workshop announcement]

Leaders: William Wetherall, Jocelyn Ford

Proofreading from A to Z [workshop announcement]

Leaders: Susie Schmidt, Suzy Trumbull, Becky Davis

Panel on Nonbiased Communication (FB) [seminar report]

Panelists: Susan Chira, New York Times; Jim Smith, Associated Press; Kazue Suzuki, Asahi News Service; Suzy Trumbull (moderator)

The Times on Women [New York Times guidelines on words relating to women]

In with the Wind [errors/oddities]

Winter Festivities [report: annual New Year party]

Fourth SWET Special Book Sale [book publishers special discounts]

Hardware Data Exchange (MS) [call for user experience submissions]

1988 Directory [issuance announcement]

Library of Books on Books [Maruzen Nihonbashi resources]

Over Their Shoulders [translation comparisons: religion and politics]

Translators: Janet Ashby, Susan Murata, David Swain

A Tad, A Smidgen, a... Skosh? [English words coined from Japanese]

Bibliotheca Nipponica [Tokyo-area libraries]

British Council Library; EC Information/Documentation Section

Ask the Publishing Hexpert [end-of-line word division; need for permission to reproduce]

The Guest Mavin [book reviews]

The World of Translation: Papers from Conference on Literary Translation (GH)

1988 Writer's Market (GW)

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (FMU)

Book Nook (MS) [description: public book storage warehouse]

Just Say No! [Directory mail list misuse; return-to-sender kanji]

Credit Where It's Due [contributors to this issue]

The Discriminating Eye (MP) [bias-free language]

Time Warp [errors/oddities]