ANNUAL REPORT for SIGIR, July 1998 - June 1999

A new set of officers was elected and installed at the SIGIR'99 Conference in August. The new officers are: Susan Dumais, Chair; Susan Gauch, Vice-Chair; Liz Liddy, Secretary~ and Jamie Callan, Treasurer. In our continuing effort to make SIGIR a truly international organization, Peter Schaeuble (ETH Zurich) and Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO) were appointed regional representatives to the SIGIR Executive Committee. Many thanks to the outgoing officers, Nick Belkin, Chair; Howard Turtle, Vice-Chair; Elke Mittendorf, Secretary and Susan Gauch, Treasurer, who have all worked hard to make SIGIR a successful organization.