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CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
Global Access, Local Support: 
Social Science Computing in the Age of the World Wide Web 
 
The International Association for Social Science Information Service 
and Technology (IASSIST) and the Social Science Computing Association 
(SSCA) announce their joint 1998 Conference, to be held May 19-22 on 
the Yale University campus in New Haven CT. 
 
CONFERENCE THEMES: The joint program committee welcomes proposals for 
papers, poster sessions, demonstrations and workshops. Themes that may be 
woven into the conference include, but are not limited to: 
 
*expanded roles of data libraries and archives; 
*new avenues for academic teaching; 
*quantitative data in the age of the Internet; 
*non-traditional data analysis, presentation, and support; 
*end user training and ongoing support; 
*technical aspects of data management and Web delivery; 
*metadata standards, resource discovery; 
*social implications of global networking; 
*economic and legal implications in international perspective. 
 
PROPOSALS ARE DUE DECEMBER 15, 1998.  Proposals may be submitted 
electronically via email or the  Conference WWW site: 
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/iasscss. 
Notification of proposal acceptance will be made by February 13, 1998. 
 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 
IASSIST home page: http://datalib.library.ualberta.ca/iassist 
SSCA home page: http://ag.arizona.edu/ssca/ 
 
 
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