Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries at MIT, has been elected to the Governing Council of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the world’s largest archive of digital social science data. Council members guide and oversee the activities of ICPSR. Ms. Wolpert will serve a four-year term from 2008-2012.

MIT’s membership in ICPSR is provided by the Libraries’ Social Science Data Services program. For more information on the services ICPSR provides for data access and training in quantitative methods, see the MIT Libraries’ page on ICPSR.

Please join us in congratulating Ms. Wolpert on this important post!

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