Hello everyone, This is a short message, but I didn't want it to get mixed up in all the detail in my other one. As usual, we will be holding a short auction of book on the history of computing. Last year we raised a total of $840 at the lunch meeting, between cash donations and the proceeds of the auction. Many of the books were donated by MIT Press, but around half came from ordinary SIG members. Together with our income from other sources this has funded our operations for the year, allowing us to make four awards of $200 each as supplemental graduate student travel funding, to subsidize the cost of this year's lunch for graduate students, to buy coffee for the workshop on Sunday, and to print the poster SHOT has asked us to provide for the "Meet the SIGs session." This is a fun event, which lets us build some community spirit, expand our libraries affordably, and help the development of the field. So please, if you have accumulated spare copies of any relevant books (review copies, desk copies, author's copies, accidental double purchases) then squeeze them into your bulging bags and bring them along to the SIGCIS lunch meeting on Friday. Deductions to SHOT (i.e. books you give us) are tax deductible for US residents to the amount allowed by law. Tom