Business Meeting
New York City, NY
Friday, October 30, 2009

1.         Welcome and Introductions                                                   10 minutes
2.         Acceptance of Agenda                                                             2 minutes
3.         Appointment of secretary to take minutes for
            Business Meeting                                                                      3 minutes
4.         Division Mission                                                                     20 minutes

The mission of the ATA Literary Division is to uphold excellence and ethical standards within the profession, to advocate fair and just treatment of literary translators by authors, agents and publishers, to promote recognition of work and professionalism of literary translators, to encourage cooperation among other literary translation organizations, and to support literary translators as a community.
           

• Sessions at the Annual Conference – 8-9 sessions slated for presentations on literary translation.
• Newsletter –Michele Aynesworth continues to be editor of  Source which is now an online edition. There are three published and on the LD website.  Michele has a two-year term 2007-2009, so the new administrator will need to put out a request for applications. Past editors may apply for the position, which includes a small stipend upon completion of each edition. Submission guidelines are on the website.
• LD annual journal of literary translation, Beacons X, is online and hard copies can still be purchased directly through ATA. This past year there were three applications to be guest editor of Beacons XI, but unfortunately none of the candidates qualified to take on this task. This will be a priority for the new LD Administrator.  
• Myriam Young continues as the volunteer LD Webmaster. If you want anything posted, especially in the category of publications or conferences, please send them directly to Myriam through the LD website.

5.         Special event for ATA’s 50th Annual Conference was a play translated by long-     standing LD member Phyllis Zatlin and directed by Dr. Rius Woertendyke from Pace University. A special thanks goes to Dr. Woertendyke and those at Pace who helped in this production.

6.         Installation of New Officers                                            5 minutes
            LD Administrator Ms. Emilia Balke
            LD Assistant Administrator Mr. Rashid Hasan

7.         Q & A for new administrators                                                15 minutes

8.         Old Business                                                                             5 minutes

9.         New Business for 2010                                                             5 minutes

Adjournment and Networking