IRSSIST Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter 1978) NEWS AND NOTES Under the revised format of the Newsletter this section will include notices on a wide variety of topics. First, of course, will be organiza- tional information dealing with IftSSIST. Other standard features will consist of upcoming conferences and meetings; reports of organizations of interest to lASSIST members; and educational and/or research opportuni- ties. The editor would welcome any additional suggestions concerning this section and will include information members would like to have available or make available to others. the absolute has not been realized. The current format allows new mem- bers of IASSIST to belong to an Ac- lASSIST NEWS tion Group immediately upon entry into the organization. This format Chairperson^ Report, February does not readily facilitate prog- 151X7 "T'gTB ress on the designated products. Sharon Henry, Canadian Secretariat, The second North American IAS- has been asRed to review the action SIST Conference took place on Feb- group format and provide some al- ruary 8-11, 1978, at the Carson ternative approaches. Individuals Inn, Itasca, Illinois. "State of interested in this activity should the art; Perspectives" was the address comments to her. theme of the conference. The mem- bers of the program committee, Tony During the business meeting in Falsetto, Public Archives of Can- Itasca a motion was made and passed ada; Sheldon Laube, C. M. Leinwond to create the position of Arcni- Associates; Richard Roistacher. vist/Recorder for lASSIST. This Oniversity of Illinois; and PatricK position would be responsible for Bova, National Opinion Research the preservation of the records of Center, are to be commended for lASSIST including all reports, pa- their efforts which made this meet- pers, and other designated docu- ing a success. Richard Roistacher, ments. An appointment to this pos- with the assistance of Barbara No- ition will be made in the near ble. University of Illinois, did an future, exceptionally fine job of nandiing the local arrangements. James Da- Perhaps of greatest immediate vis, Harvard University sociolo- organizational significance of all Eist, was the guest speaker at the the actions taken in Itasca was the anguet. creation of a Nominations and Elec- tions Committee to handle the elec- The conference was organized tion procedures for members of the around seven formal panels and ses- lASSIST Steering Committee. The sions of lASSIST Action Groups. Committee is composed of Elliott Panel topics included the follow- Avedon, University of Waterloo; ing: Documentation: Privacy versus Nancy Carmichael, U. S. Social Sci- Freedom of Information; Software ence Research Council; and Ekkehard and Analysis Techniques for Non- Mochmann, University of Cologne, rectangular Files; Alternative Or- The Committee met several times ganizational Arrangements for Data during the Itasca Conference and Access; Network Environments; Ac- through those meetings it became quisition and Preservation; and clear that some revisions to the Networking Products and Services. constitution were necessary. The The papers presented during the appropriate revisions and election panels will be made available in procedures are presented in a sepa- the form of published proceedings rate insert to this Newsletter. and a selection of the papers will Special attention was given €o geo- be featured in the lASSIST Neuslet- graphical distribution of the msm- ter, now under the editorship of bership to assure adequate repre- THomas Wm. Madron, Western Kentucky sentation. University. Seventy-five individu- als attended the meeting. A list Carolyn Geda, Chairperson of participants is available through Judith Rowe, U. S. Secre- 1979 North American lASSIST One of the developments at the ConTerence Itasca Conference was some discus- sion concerning the role of the Ac- The 1979 North American lASSIST tion Groups, which in turn is stim- Conference is scheduled for Ottawa, ulating further review. Orginally Canada, during May, 1979. As plans the action groups developed with for the meeting are developed, !:ur- "products" as the objectives, but ther information will be published - 25 - lASSIST Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter 1978) in the Newsletter. In the associations. U. S. delegates meantime, STiaron "Henry, Canadian should contact: Secretariat, can furnish material ,„,.... concerning the planning of the con- Group Travel. Dniimited, Inc. fprpnrp 1025 Connecticut Avenue, NWleLence. Washington, D. C. 20036 Telephone: (202) 659-9555 IASSIST Euro£e Canadian delegates should contact: The IASSIST Conference to be Ms. Jan Buchanan, Manager held in conjunction with the Inter- Convention Services national Sociological Association P. Lawson Travel Congress at Uppsala, Sweden, will Suite 1415-2 take place on Wednesday and Thurs- Carlton Street day, August 16-17, 1978. Action Toronto, Ontario M5B 1 K2 Group meetings are scheduled for the afternoons and the panels are A special mailing to lASSIST mem- scheduled for the evenings, bers is scheduled concerning the 8:30-11:00 p.m. conference. Three panels are scheduled and include the following: "Issues in Comparative Data and Research," El- ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS liott Avedon, Department of Recrea- tion, University of Waterloo, MISIST/Social Science Information Waterloo, Canada, Chair; "Researcn Problems Associated with Complex The following report was re- Data Bases," John DeVries, Depart- ceived from Fred Riggs, a member of ment of Sociology, Carleton Univer- lASSIST and UNISIST, describing the sity, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIS November, 1977 Pans meeting (see 5B6, Chair: and "Privary versus Newsletter, 1, 4, 41-42, for fur- Freeedom of Information," Guido EKer information concerning ONI- ' ' ' ' - -----itte- --Martinotti, Archivio dati e pro- SIST) of the Ad Hoc Committee or grammi per le scienze sociali, via Social Science Information. G. Cantoni 4, 20144 Milan, Italy, Chair. Individuals interested m The purpose of the Ad Hoc Corn- presenting a paper should contact mittee is to advise the UNESCO Di- the appropriate chairperson. Pa- vision and UNISIST on how best to pers may also be presented at ac— link the interests of the social tion group meetings. Abstracts for science community with those of the Action Group papers shouia be sub- natural science and engineering mitted to the appropriate Action communites for whom UNISIST was Group Coordinator or Regional Sec- orijinaly designed. Two North retariat, Americans were invited to attend this meeting: Professor Jerome The European lASSIST conference Clubb, executive director of the is being held in conjunction with Inter-university Consortium for Po- the meeting of the International litical and Social Research (Ann Sociological Assocation and in or- Arbor) and executive secretary of der to attend the World Congress of the Social Science History Associa- Sociology the registra- tion; and Ms. Sharon Henry, execu- tion/reservation form found else- tive director of the Candaian where in this Newsletter must be Clearinghouse for Social Science completed and includ'e advance pay- Data and Secretary for the Canadian ment of registration fees. The fee chapter of IASSIST. before April 30, 1978, is $65 (U.S.) for ISA members and $80 for non-members. Fees cover access to all Congress sessions and exhibits. Regional Database the printed Congress Program, the CartograpEy printed book or abstracts of Con- gress papers, and a list of partic- A number of European research ipants. workers active in the analysis of regional problems met in Bergen- All accommodations in Uppsala Norway, November 7-3, 1977, with will be reserved for ISA partici- the representatives of data serv- pants. Therefore, in order to se- ices and centers of cartography to cure reservations, the accomoda- discuss the possibility for joint tions section of the reservation European action to link databases form must be completed. A copy of and facilities for computer map- this form shouia also be sent to ping. The meeting was organized by your regional lASSIST Secretariat. the Norwegian Social Science data ISA is not organizing any charters Services, financed by the Norwegian to Uppsala but is leaving this to Research Council and sponsored by the national sociological - 27 - I^SSIST Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter 1978) the Social Sciences Committee of research. The training session is the European Science Foundation. directed toward graduate students and junior faculty. Those inter- There was broad agreement on ested in attending should apply be- goals and objectives thought impor- fore Hay 1, 1978 to: rant by the group and the attendees agreed to seek support for the or- Bjorn Henrichsen ganization of two pilot projects Executive Director during 1978-79. Papers on the pi- NSD lot projects will be circulated be- Chr istiesgate 15-19 fore the next meeting of the Group, N-5014 BERGEN-UNIV. possibly in the summer of 1978. Bergen, Norway EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH SSRC (Britain) Visitinq Fellowship,~ OPPOITTU'RITIE^ UHzll Micro Data Collectio n Methods in The Survey Archive invites ap- Economics plications to its Visiting Fellow- ship program for 1978-79, from so- An introductory course in li- cial scientists interested in brary management of numerical ma- undertaking either substantive or chine readable data files designed methodological research based on to meet the interests and present the Archive's holdings. While di- and future needs of librarians, in- rect monetary compensation is iim- formation specialists, and social ited, computer resources and office scientists, will be held Hay space are provided by the fellow- 30-June 16, 1978, at the University ship. Applications, with a dead- of Wisconsin-Madison. line of March 31, 1978, and a cur- riculum vitae should he addressed Course objectives are to in- to: crease awareness and knowledge of machine readable data through expo- The Director sure to protessionals working with SSRC Survey Archive large data bases, data base manage- University of Essex ment, social science research, and Wivenhoe Park data library and archive organiza- Colchester, Essex tion and management; to instruct in the latest techniques tor dealing with this medium; and to provide practical experience within a real ICPSR Summer Program data library and computer environ- ment. The 1978 Inter-university Con- sortium for Political and Social Advance registration is required Research has announced its summer and should be completed prior to program. At least three sessions April 15, 1978. Additional inform- should be of special interest to ation and application forms may be lASSIST members: acquired from: 1. Workshop on Management, Alice Bobbin or Al Schubert Library Control and Use Data S Computation Center of Computer Readable In- UU52 Social Sciance Building formation. UW-Hadison Hadison, WI 53706 2. Small Computer System Phone: (608) 262-7962 Hardware and Software. 3. Database Management for Complex Social and His- Norweqian Social S cienc e Data torical Data. Services In addition, there will be two spe- The Norwegian Social Science cial workshops dealing with crimi- Data Services will organize a nai justice data, one of which will training course to test a set of be directed toward data processing teaching materials based on survey and data management problems in the data. The course will be held from field. For further information June 18 through the 24th, 1978. contact: The course will be based on a cross-national data package devel- Summer Program oped within the program of the In- ICPSR ternational Social Science Council, P. 0. Box 1248 as well as a set of Norwegian sur- Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 vey data prepared within the na- Telephone: (313) 764-2570 tional program of electoral - 28 - lASSIST Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter 1978) POSITION ANNOUNCEHENIS Programmer/Analyst The Roper Center at Yale Univer- sity has acnounced an opening for a computer programmer/analyst. A De- gree is preferred but not required. The position requires a person with several years or experience. A re- sume along with a letter of intent should be sent as soon as possible to: Donald R. DeLuca P. 0. Box 1732, Yale Station Yale University New Haven, Connecticut 06520 An equal opportunity employer. ^^ „!21!S,. 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