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1. mla-2001am	MLA 2001 annual meeting
2. mla-2000secprog	2000 section programming
3. mla-2001secprog	2001 section programming
4. mla-academytaskforce	Academy of Health Information Professionals TF
5. mla-bmlaeditors	Bulletin Editorial Board
6. mla-board	MLA Board
7. mla-bookpanel	Books Panel
8. mla-bylaw	Bylaws Committee
9. mla-cec	Continuing Education Committee
10. mla-cechair	Continuing Education Chairs
11. mla-centcom	Centennial Coordinating Committee
12. mla-chapter	Chapter business
13. mla-chapterchair	Chapter chairs
14. mla-chptreasurer	Chapter treasurers
15. mla-exadcm	Exchange Advisory Committee
16. mla-govtf	Governance Task Force
17. mla-grants	Grants
18. mla-grc	Governmental Relations Committee
19. mla-gscom	Grants and Scholarship Committee
20. mla-leaders	Members list
21. mla-legis-tf	Legislative Task Force
22. mla-memcomm	Member Committee
23. mla-nettaskforce	MLANET Task Force
24. mla-nomcom	Nominating Committee
25. mla-npc2001	2001 National Program Committee
26. mla-npc2002	2002 National Program Committee
27. mla-oralh	Oral History Committee
28. mla-pdtf	Professional Development Task Force
29. mla-piirc	Publishing and Information Industries Relations Cmte.
30. mla-pubscomm	Publications Committee
31. mla-recruit	Chapter recruitment program
32. mla-researchtf	Research Policy Implementation Task Force
33. mla-rtmla	Roundtable
34. mla-saco-win	Smith Abbot and Co. users group
35. mla-satellite	Distance education satellite program
36. mla-section	Section business
37. mla-sectionchair	Section chairs
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Last updated on: March 21, 2001.