The William Dean Howells Society will definitely sponsor one session, and possibly a second, on Howells at the next ALA conference in Long Beach, California, on May 30-June 2, 2002.

Please send five-hundred word abstracts or papers of no more than ten double-spaced pages to the program chair, Elsa Nettels, Department of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, by December 1, 2001.