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Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Jun/Jul 1997

Among the members of the symposium committee for ISDL '97 - International Symposium on Research, Development and Practice in Digital Libraries are Hidehiro Ishizuka, professor, University of Library and Information Science (ULIS), Tsukuba Science City, Japan; Masamitsu Negishi, National Center for Science Information Systems, Tokyo; Kimio Hosono, professor, Keio University, Tokyo; and Atsutake Nozoe, professor, Aichi Shukutoku University, AichiKen, Japan. Serving on the program committee for the same meeting are Edie Rasmussen, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh, and Shoichi Taniguchi, ULIS.

News from ASIS Institutional Members

New York Metro Area's Only Ph.D. in Information Studies Receives State Approval

The only doctoral program in information studies in the New York metropolitan area will be offered this fall by the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, New York. The program addresses a demand that has grown since Columbia University closed its School of Library Service in 1990.

Paul LeClerc, president and CEO of the New York Public Library, says the goals of the Palmer School's new Ph.D. program are "critical to ensuring that libraries everywhere have the expertise to guide their users through the increasingly complex and technologydriven world of information access."

Students in the new program will study either information organization and access or information studies and services.

Participation Sought for ASIS 1998 Meetings

As this issue of the Bulletin arrives in the mailboxes of ASIS members, the 1997 ASIS MidYear Meeting, Information Privacy, Security and Data Integrity, is well underway.

Each year ASIS sponsors two of the most highly regarded meetings in the information field. The Annual Meeting focuses on the breadth of activities and endeavors of the information community with technical sessions covering virtually all of the specialties of the information profession. The Mid-Year Meeting, smaller and more intense, tackles a key area of development in the industry and presents in-depth technical and practical perspectives on the implications of the development.

The 1997 Annual Meeting, for which program information will be available to all ASIS members shortly, will focus in part on Digital Collections: Implications for Users, Funders, Developers and Maintainers, but will also address other topics from research, technical and application perspectives. On the following pages, preliminary calls for participation invite membership involvement in the two 1998 ASIS meetings.