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From: "Philippa Wright"

Dear FLTEACH colleagues

I'm a fairly new member on your lively list and have been reading your discussions over the past week or so with great interest. Perhaps I should declare straight away that this is a message from 'across the pond'. I do hope that's OK, and that the content is appropriate for the list.

I'm an English woman living in Madrid co-ordinating a European project on 'Language Resource Centres' (LRCs). The project brings together 16 partners from 13 European countries. We have been working together for nearly 2 years now and have produced a publication:

The LRC handbook: guidelines for setting up, running and expanding Language Resource Centres

It's brief (50 pages), practical and contains case studies from all of our partners. It's aimed at anyone involved in LRCs, whether it's a modest resource corner in a school classroom to a University or Community language centre. The publication can be downloaded - in any of 16 European languages - free of charge, from the LRC portal www.lrcnet.org

You are also warmly welcomed to take part in discussions on any aspect of LRCs on the electronic discussion Forum on the same site. We have 'topics' on Management, Users, Resources and Services, and Facilities - and members from many different countries. Please do feel free to contribute, to browse the messages already sent or to set up a new topic if you wish.

We (project partners) would be very interested to read your comments and hear about the situation with LRCs in the States . . . as well as to receive any feedback you can give us on the publication.

We're running a promotional on-line draw (with amazon.com vouchers and publications for your Language Centres or Departments as prizes) for all of June and July. I'll send information about that in a separate mail, if I may, so you can forward it to anyone who might be interested.

Many thanks and best wishes

Pip Wright
cc. LRC project partners
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Philippa Wright
European Projects Co-ordinator
CILT: Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research, UK
www.cilt.org.uk
Linguanet Europa
www.linguanet-europa.org
The Languages Resource Centre (LRC) project
www.lrcnet.org
Tel. (+34) 91 468 1208
SourceCILT: Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research, UK
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