This is the announcement for the annual ICPSR one-week workshop
in managing collections of and providing services for numeric
social science data. The fee for this course is $750 for
individuals from ICPSR member institutions and $1500 for those
from institutions not affiliated with ICPSR. Enrollment is
limited to 20 individuals.
Applications are due by April 19, 1996. Applications
are available online at:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/Other_Resources/Summer/app.html
and additional information about the ICPSR summer program is
available
at:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/Other_Resources/Summer/Summer.ht
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Data Basics: Providing Services for Social Science Data
August 12 - August 16, 1996
8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
(ICPSR)
Ann Arbor, Michigan
This workshop is designed for individuals whose responsibilities
include providing access to social science statistical data files
to users of these resources. The objectives of the workshop are
to introduce information management, data control, and data
librarian procedures and techniques.
This workshop examines models of service provision for machine
readable social science data. An increasingly large collection
of statistical data in the social sciences is now available in
machine readable format. These non-bibliographic resources often
contain the raw information from which aggregate or summary
statistics are generated for inclusion in traditional print
sources. Some statistical information is no longer being
distributed in print format and instead, is only available in
machine readable format. Government data in many countries
frequently fall into this category.
This workshop addresses models for providing support and service
for these materials and also introduces some basic skills for
working with data and related print materials.
The workshop consists of five daily themes. On the initial day,
models of data service are examined and participants are
introduced to key professional issues about data from both a
library and social science data archive perspective. The second
day focuses on searching and locating social science data and
includes a computing assignment using Internet sources to locate
data. The third day addresses issues surrounding the acquisition
of data and includes a computing exercise in ordering and
retrieving data over the network. The fourth day involves
management issues including: access, bibliographic control,
cataloging, and verifying data orders. The fifth day reviews
data reference services and includes a computing exercise in
manipulating data.
In addition to computing exercises, modest homework assignments
reinforce daily themes. Some background with MS/Windows, the
desktop for MacIntosh, or Unix will be helpful, but is not
mandatory.
Presenters:
Diane Geraci
Data Services Librarian/Anthropology Bibliographer State
University of New York at Binghamton
dgeraci@library.lib.binghamton.edu
Charles Humphrey
Data Library Coordinator, University Library University of
Alberta
CHUMPHRE@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA
Jim Jacobs
Data Services Librarian
University of California, San Diego
JAJACOBS@UCSD.EDU