(1985). Levine's Atlas of Corporate Interlocks. Connections ... - INSNA

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BACK ISSUES
Only the following back issues of CONNECTIONS are still available . $4 .00 each . Send checks to INSNA .
Vol . # $ Year Features
8 1 1985 Sonquist on databases ; Barrera on support ; Klovdahl's PROBNET
7 1 1984 Current Directory--members' names, addresses, interests
6 3 1983 Scherer's 'terse' summary of network findings
6 2 1983 Research roundup issue
6 1 1981 Abstract bonanza issue (over 100!)
5 1 1982 Harrison White on 'interfaces'
2 3 1979 Early Membership Directory--a collector's item!
2 1 1979 Peil on Africa ; J .C . Mitchell & Lin Freeman ; Bernard & Kilworth on 'small worlds'
HOW WE PREPARECONNECTIONS
At present CONNECTIONS is typed, not word processed, on an IBM Selectric (Prestige Elite, 12 pitch) .
It is typed on oversized paper, with the body of the text on each page measuring 9" x 12" . We reduced each
page 25% as we photo-offset it onto standard 8/" x 11" paper . This saves greatly on printing and postage
costs . We estimate that each CONNECTIONS page is the equivalent of three standard double-spaced typed pages .
Papers, Research Reports, Computer Stuff : We either solicit them or they come in on their own . All are
informally refereed, but we enthusiastically avoid the fuss of a full-fledged refereeing system . We need
more of this material, especially papers critiquing the field, proposing interesting ideas, providing new
techniques . We would especially like to publish short reports of hot new findings . All authors retain total
control over their material for future use . Wellman copyrights each issue purely to provide blanket legal
protection against someone else using it without the author's permission .
Thesis Summaries : We publish just about all that are sent in, but not enough are . Please have your
students do this routinely upon completion . We will even taken good Master's summaries . No proposals please .
Abstracts : This is the most time-consuming part of CONNECTIONS to prepare . We first search the back
issues of CURRENT CONTENTS for likely titles . We then photocopy the abstracts at the University of Toronto
library, adding on relevant bibliographic material . (Most of this work has recently been done by Alicia
VanDerMeer .) At each stage, there is a filtering process . We also find other abstracts through computerized
database searches, but such databases tend to be out-of-date and very incomplete . All this material is typed .
We also find other abstracts through attending conferences and by mail from members . (Please send us
everything you do .) WE NEED YOUR HELP HERE . When you are sitting bored at a conference, please mark the
likely abstracts in your program and mail them to us . Conference papers provide advance info on what's hot,
and they are the toughest abstracts to find .
Books : We scan journals, publishers' mailings, e tc . t o find likely books . If we can get the books,
we usually excerpt the preface and list the table of contents . Otherwise, we use the publishers' blurb,
removing all the hype . IF YOU WRITE A BOOK, PLEASE HAVE YOUR PUBLISHER SEND A COPY TO C ONNECTIONS . I T
WILL PROBABLY BE ONE OF YOUR BEST SOURCES OF EXPOSURE .
By the way, the one place we sell sets of mailing labels is to publishers . So far, Academic, Butterworths
and Sage have bought them to publicize INSNA members' books . We also make a few bucks too . Suggest it to
your publisher for your next book, s .v .p .
Our Biggest Lack : Controversy, and other input from INSNA members . A very meek and mild-mannered bunch .
Write soon, and write often!
THE BOTTOM LINE
As of January 1, 1986 we have 278 members, holding steady for the past few years (but down from our 325
peak . After paying for printing and posting this issue, we should have a cash reserve of about C$4,500
(US$3,200) . Several nice features are already in hand for 1986 .