The Twenty-Sixth (26) Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) will be held on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois on June 7-10, 2000. This year's conference Data in the Digital Library: Charting the Future of Social, Spatial and Government Data emphasizes the strengthening relationships between archives and libraries in managing, preserving and providing access to "digital collections". IASSIST conferences bring together data professionals, data producers, and data analysts from around the world who are engaged in the creation, acquisition, processing, maintenance, distribution, preservation, and use of numeric social science data for research and instruction. N E W S

Conference presentations are online. Follow this link to see what is available. Thanks to all who participated in this year's conference. See you in Amsterdam in May 2001.