Please call Joe DeRose at 1-404-727-7972.

You can confirm the AAR's hours of operation under "Office Hours" on the Contact Us page.

The AAR rents (for a certain number of uses) its membership list for use in mailing catalogs, flyers, announcements, etc. which are of a professional interest to the profession. We exclude from those rentals, of course, addresses for members who have opted out.

We are very specific with the terminology we use in saying that we "rent" the list (meaning that we retain all rights and control over the use of the list) rather than "sell" it.

No. The AAR never makes member e-mail addresses available to advertisers, and actively guards against misuse of members' personal information.

Members may opt out of having their addresses rented to advertisers by contacting us at 1-404-727-3049 or membership@aarweb.org. This information is also provided in the AAR Privacy Policy.

Complete the Label Rental Request.  Our policies and pricing can be found on that page.

At the top of the Interest Area List, it is explained that these counts are for all member types in all geographic areas; if you are requesting (for example) only "regular members in the U.S.," then you are choosing to receive only a portion of the total members with that interest area.

Also, if you select more than one interest area, the lists are deduplicated. Thus, a person may have (for example) an interest in Anthropology (D01) and Archaeology (D02), and thus appear in the base count for both lists, but she or he will only appear once in the final label set. It is for this reason that you cannot simply add together the interest area counts to predict the total numbers.

Our sytem will provide an instant count and cost for most selections, so it is not necessary for you to do the mathematics. Use this functionality to ascertain the count and cost based on parameters you select.

On the label rental request page, we ask advertisers to allow us two business days to process payments.

The AAR Executive Office, which processes label rental requests, is a small staff. As such, we are significantly impacted by staff members being out of the office. When the absence is a planned leave (such as vacation or jury duty), we try to make note of it at the top of the submission page.

But in the event of unplanned leave (such as illness or bereavement), we are unable to provide advance warning. Additionally, a rare circumstance such as equipment failure or an evacuation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of which we are in the vicinity, can impact our work flow. All of these situations are uncommon – but we make note of them because, in light of our structure and size, they substantially affect our processing abilities when they occur.

With that all said, we make every effort to process submissions and payments by the next business day. And, therefore, we are comfortable telling advertisers that – under most circumstances – we are able to process submissions and payments within two business days (giving ourselves a buffer in the event of a minor delay).

If the timing issue is critical, however, we encourage you to call Joe DeRose (404-727-7972) or the main AAR information line (404-727-3049) to be certain that no delay is anticipated.

Because AAR memberships run for the calendar year, the number of members in the AAR increases substantially over the course of the year. We require payment within thirty days to ensure that the number of names provided approximates the membership count that was returned at the time of the list request.

You should request a new list. If you make payment on the original list after thirty days, the payment may be refunded to you or applied to a new rental request.

Because we allow members to opt out of having their names rented, we want to be able to assure them that solicitations will stop within a two-month time frame of their opting out of this program.

Contact Joe DeRose at 1-404-727-7972 to work out a solution.

If you use a previous list, it may include the names of members who have recently opted out of having their names rented.

Payment options are outlined on the Payments page. Please note that the top of this page is a utility for online payment, but that the page continues with information on other ways of making payent.

This information is provided on the Payments page.

If you paid online, the confirmation page was your receipt. That page included instructions to print it for your records. If you paid by check, the cancelled check is your receipt.

You can reprint the pro-forma invoice by entering your order ID on the Advertising Printouts page and then selecting "Pro Forma Invoice."

If this is not sufficient, you can contact our accountant, Ina Ferrell, at 1-404-727-2331 or iferrell@aarweb.org with your order ID, and ask that she prepare a receipt.

Unlike in some learned societies, AAR program units do not have memberships beyond the chairs and the steering committee.

We can help you target mailing to people with specific interests. Please note the Interest Area List options on the Label Rentals page.

No. The AAR has assured members that demographic information we collect will be used only internally.

No.

Call Joe DeRose at 1-404-727-7972 to see if your order ID can be found by institution name.

The simple answer is that the long ID was required by a credit card processor we used in the early days of online payment.

While we no longer use the card processor with that requirement, we have retained the long order ID because it gives us useful information at a glance.

For example, consider the order ID LBL20050301R12345A25000:

1. The first three characters (LBL) indicate that it is an label rental ID.
2. The next eight characters (20050301) are the date (four digits for the year, two for the month, two for the date).
3. The next six characters (R12345) are the letter R followed by a five-digit identifier (which is a combination of a random number and a number derived mathematically from the other characters in the order ID, which helps safeguard against typographical errors).
4. The final characters (A25000) are the letter A followed by the amount in U.S. cents (i.e., dollars and cents, without the decimal point).

Thus, at a glance, AAR employees can look at this order ID and know that it was a label rental request submitted on March 1, 2005 in the amount of $250.00.

In conversation, we are often able to refer simply to the "R Number" – the letter R and the five digits that follow it in the middle of the order ID. This number is not unique – but in a telephone conversation there is generally enough other information to help us be certain we are looking at the correct submission.

In e-mail correspondence, we simply ask that the entire order ID be copied and pasted, to ensure accuracy.