Fellow Museum-L members, please excuse the slip of the wrist that resulted in
the prior incomplete message...the full text of the message follows.

Thank you for your patience.

Terry Grose Beamsley
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

The Arts and Humanities Special Interest Group of the American Society for
Information Science (SIG-AH) is interested in your ideas regarding possible
panel presentations and/or contributed paper sessions for the 1997 ASIS
midyear and annual meetings.

The theme for the midyear meeting, to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, June 2
- 4, is "Information Privacy, Integrity, and Data Security".  The statement
of thematic interests for the meeting contains the following information:

   "The infrastructure for data security, electronic communication and
information privacy is built on an uncertain foundation...
    The fast pace of development for computing and networking technology has
surpassed the social norms and ethics needed to deal with technologies and
their uses.  Individuals feel uncertain or disempowered and may be unwilling
to participate; organizations are pressured to implement technological
solutions but without a clear sense of the problem; social institutions are
stressed by demands to incorporate technologies into their services, yet
without an adequate infrastructure to support this expansion...
    Who owns data?  How can we verify accuracy of data, and verify that data
are obtained from an authenticated source?...What sorts of values for
privacy, data sharing, and ethical responsibility will we need?"

The theme of the 1997 ASIS annual meetings, to be held in Washington DC,
November 1 - 6, is "Digital Collections: Implications for Users, Funders,
Developers, and Maintainers."

SIG-AH is planning several sessions for midyear, one of which will deal with
the boundaries between public record and personal privacy, issues in which
museums are intrinsically interested due to their dual nature as public
institutions that are at the same time expected to respect donor privacy.  If
you have other ideas or would like further information on the ASIS midyear or
annual meetings, or if you have questions about ASIS or SIG-AH, please
contact me offline.

Terry Grose Beamsley
Co-Team Leader, Collections Information Resources
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
and Incoming Chair, SIG-AH, American Society for Information Science
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