Miscellaneous

• Following a request from Brill Publishers regarding the Brill 'Adopt a Library Project', the IAHR Executive Committee, asked to recommend libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa, recommended that the books in question be shipped to libraries in Nigeria and Zimbabwe. 
• Proceedings from Tokyo 2005 as well as from Durban 2000 are in press and free pdf versions will also be hosted on the IAHR website later in the year.
• The IAHR Executive Committee has discussed proposals to sponsor a new IAHR Book Series, and we figure that we are able to have more news on that in the not too distant future. (Brill Publishers still publish the Numen Book Series and the SoR; the IAHR, however, no longer is associated with the two publication series).
• Though previously announced, please note that the new agreement with Brill Publishers on Numen means that each annual volume now consists of five issues. We consider this an improvement, and we encourage our members around the world to consider submitting articles to Numen.
• Professor Gregory D. Alles has been appointed managing editor of Numen. Prof. Alles will succeed Professor Gustavo Benavides whose term as managing editor expires at the end of 2010. However, to provide for as smooth a period of transition as possible, Brill Publishers, in agreement with the IAHR Executive Committee, has decided that Prof. Alles begins the work already as of January 2010. In 2010, then, there will be three managing editors of Numen: Profs. Gregory D. Alles, Gustavo Benavides and  Olav Hammer. Prof. Alles is professor of Religious Studies at McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College), Westminster, Maryland, USA. He has published widely in English and German. Prof. Alles is a past president of the North American Association for the Study of Religion, and he has been a member of many an editorial board. The IAHR Executive Committee welcomes Prof. Alles and look forward to working together with him.
• Professor Ingvild Sælid Gilhus has been appointed Reviews Editor of Numen. Prof. Gilhus will succeed Professor Maya Burger whose term expires January 2010. Prof Gilhus is currently serving the IAHR as Deputy General Secretary, and in the previous term she served on the IAHR Executive Committee as a member-at-large. Professor Gilhus is professor in the history of religions at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Prof. Gilhus has published widely in Norwegian as well as English and in wide variety of subject areas within the study of religions. The IAHR Executive Committee has been extremely pleased with working with Prof. Burger, and we thank her for her excellent and hard work. The IAHR Executive Committee welcomes Prof. Gilhis and we look forward to working with Prof. Gilhus also in her new capacity of Numen Reviews Editor.
• Up to now, the rule was that a minimum of 12 free copies of any Adjunct or spin-off publications from IAHR sponsored conferences should be made available to the Executive Committee. At its meeting in Messina, September 2009, the Executive Committee decided to change this rule. As of now 3 free copies of any Adjunct or spin-off publications from IAHR sponsored conferences should be made available to the Executive Committee. We kindly ask editors and publishers to remember and respect this rule.  Please ship the copies to IAHR Publications Officer, Prof. Brian Bocking. As for other rules regarding the publication of IAHR Congress Proceedings, Adjunct Proceedings and other spin-off publications, please cf. the guidelines to be found at http://www.iahr.dk/congress.html
• It has been decided to try to establish an 'IAHR Young Scholars Network', and Vice-President, Prof. Gerrie ter Haar will contact the national member societies in that regard.
• Meanwhile, please help us make the IAHR Women Scholars Network known among your members, see http://www.iahr.dk/wsn/
• In a few weeks time, the IAHR Membership Secretary will address the officers of the member societies requesting you to assist him in updating the IAHR membership data base. The information he needs is the size of the membership, as well as any possible updates in regard to officers. The information on membership and officers is important for many reasons. It is (see previous information in this e-Bulletin Supplement regarding criteria for awarding grants) important in regard to the distribution of grants to  participants to the 2010 IAHR Congress in Toronto, it is important with respect to participation in the General Assembly of the Congress, and it is, of course, important in respect to participation of the (normally two) delegates of each member association to the International Committee Meeting.  
• Last but not least: Please also help us update the general information we have on each member society. In continuation of what was said above regarding your input as to how we can better serve our member associations by way of contents and links at the IAHR website, we also want to revise and update the information we have on each society. So, please take a look at the IAHR website and send us an updated brief 'abstract' stating the year of the founding of the society, major events (conferences) in its history, major publications, name of journal, yearbook or the like (if any such is published), the address of your website (if you have one), information about annual or biannual meetings (if you have such), and any other information or news that you find important to share with the IAHR. So, please have a look at the information on your society and officers at
  http://www.iahr.dk/associations.html
• A print IAHR Bulletin nr. 39, Toronto Edition, is planned for distribution before or during the IAHR XXth Quinquennial World Congress, August 15-21, in Toronto, Canada. Please do not hesitate to register for this event, and please help us make sure that all the IAHR members know that the way to Toronto can easily be found at  http://www.iahr.dk/