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Affazrs of the Assoczation
The Handbook staff continues to make substantial progress in the re-
vision of the Handbook of Texas; the work accomplished so far this year
is depicted in the table below, as is our overall status at this point in the
project. To date we have identified more than 25,000 of the projected
26,000 topics we anticipate including in the revised Handbook, includ-
ing almost 8,ooo completely new entries. More than 20,000 of these
topics have been assigned to authors, and we have received approxi-
mately 16,8oo00 of the manuscripts thus far. The staff has checked al-
most 14,000 of the manuscripts for factual accuracy, and more than
13,000 of the manuscripts have been edited.
9/1/90- Total to Percent
3/31/91 Date Complete
Topics identified 429 25,025 96
Articles assigned 1,319 20,435 79
Articles received 1,598 16,823 65
Articles checked 2,189 13,997 54
Articles edited 2,567 13,279 51
While substantial work remains to be done, managing editor Doug
Barnett reports that the project is in good shape to meet our planned
1995 publication date. The plan calls for completing the writing and
editing of all manuscripts by mid-1993 in order to allow adequate time
for tasks such as indexing and proofreading. The primary obstacles to
reaching the mid-1993 target lie in making the remaining assignments
and in receiving the manuscripts from the authors, as almost 6,ooo top-
ics remain to be assigned and more than 9,00o manuscripts are still to
be received. We will manage this work load in several ways. First, of the
6,00o projected topics that remain to be assigned, more than 3,000 are
topics related to physical geography and community and county his-
tory that will be largely handled by staff writers; similarly, a substantial
portion of the outstanding assignments represent staff assignments
that we can be relatively certain of receiving. At current staffing levels,
we anticipate having all of the county history and geography topics
written by fall 1992.
For those topics that fall outside the assignment responsibilities of
staff writers, our first task is to complete the identification of all topics
and establish priorities for those remaining to be assigned. Mike Camp-
bell began a subject-by-subject review of each of the topical areas to be
covered in the Handbook during his appointment last fall. Our goal is to
prepare a final list of topics in each subject area and to identify the most
essential entries in each area. This list includes the major overview ar-
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