Judith Rowe

Senior Data Services Specialist (retired)
Firestone Library, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08540 USA

Judith spent several years at the Social Science Reference Center at the Princeton University Library. She continues to serve on the Bureau of the Census Taskforce which is reviewing the data products from the 2000 census. Prior to that she served in serveral capacities at Computers and Information Technology, also at Princeton University. Her professional activities and her publications are numerous. She was a founding member and president of both the Association for Public Data Users (APDU) and the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), chair of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) and Board member of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)as well as a member of the Bureau of the Census Professional Advisory Committee and the Depository Library Council for the Government Printing Office. In addition she was involved in the development of the cataloging rules for machine-readable data files and the policies for including computerized materials to the U.S. Depository Library Program. She is currently the American representative on the board of the International Association for Official Statistics and continues her involvement in issues pertaining to 'data delivary' and user access. She has been actively involved with ICIMSS since its inception.

She can be reached at JUDITH@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU.

Greetings!

I first met Maria at an IASSIST meeting in Scotland. I was honored when she invited me to speak at the seminar on "The role and function of a modern academic library" held at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun in September of 1995. It was at that meeting that the idea of what has become ICIMSS was first discussed. Little did anyone realize that in one year Maria Sliwinska, with the support of the Rector of the University, would have initiated an international center for upgrading the skills of eastern European librarians. With the support of numerous funding agencies, including initially, the Mellon Foundations, but more recently a variety of European organizations, ICIMSS grows and flourishes. It is an honor to be associated with this unique effort.

Judith