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 ethcs needed to deal with technologies and
their uses.  Individuals feel uncertain or disempoweredand my 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