[Lnc-business] previous notice - the policy manual project

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Hi Ms Mattson I finished my review the next day and sent - please advise if
I need to resend.

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 12:27 AM Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> At the November LNC meeting, the LNC directed me and Ms. Harlos to bring
> back to the LNC at this meeting a list of the stylistic policy manual
> changes on which we can agree.  Though the LNC did not direct Dr. Lark to
> participate in the task, I indicated at the time that I wanted his review
> also, and he was kind enough to provide feedback and catch a few more
> items.
>
> Would you like some good news?  There are more than two hundred proposed
> changes that Ms. Harlos, Dr. Lark, and I can all support or at least
> tolerate.   In the attached Word document, the first section is a listing
> of those with agreement to date.  The numbers at the start of each line are
> references to the PageNumber/LineNumber in the other attachment.
>
> The other attachment is the copy of the policy manual to which Ms. Harlos
> had added line numbers for easy reference, and she used insert/strikeout
> formats to show her proposed changes.  This is no longer the current policy
> manual, as we have made other changes in the interim, but using this
> version still allows us to all easily understand where the changes are
> being proposed.
>
> The second section in the attached Word document contains non-substantive
> items that are either my proposed alternative to Ms. Harlos’ proposal, or
> they are new items suggested by either myself or Dr. Lark.  This is an
> incredibly tedious project.  With the holidays and other items on both of
> our plates, Ms. Harlos is still reviewing this second category, and it may
> be that before the meeting that some of these will move to the first
> “agree” section.  Since these are different/new from what you’ve seen
> before, I wanted to go ahead and provide previous notice for them.
>
> The third section are also new/alternate proposals from me, however they
> are not just editorial or stylistic in nature.  They are too substantive to
> be hidden in a huge list of Oxford commas, capitalization, etc.
>
> The items marked in the PDF but not listed in the Word document are the
> things that do not have agreement.
>
> This division will hopefully allow us to handle a whole lot of changes in a
> single motion.  I’d like to take up separate motions on the two items I
> marked as substantive.
>
> -Alicia
>
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