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- 4 -. . .Network Notebook, cont'd .policies are wholly independent and it has its own Editorial Board (most of whom are INSNA members) .THERE ARE SPECIAL, QUITE CHEAP SUBSCRIPTION RATES FOR INSNA MEMBERS . A SUBSCRIPTION FORM ISLOCATED AT THE REAR OF THIS NEWSLETTER .Elsevier-Sequoia is the Publisher and has promised continuing support . It is our hope that theCONNECTIONS Newsletter and the new journal will perform supportive, complementary functions . TheNewsletter will continue to provide "hot news" and current, informal information about research andtheory .March Toronto ConferenceINSNA is co-sponsoring a "New Directions in Structural Conference" at the University ofToronto, March 16-18 . A tentative program is located elsewhere in this Newsletter, and a registrationform is at the rear . Among the participants are Maurice Godelier, Charles Tilly and Harrison White .The conference will be organized to allow for a maximum amount of informal discussion . All invited tocome .Uppsala Network ClusteringThe World Congress of Sociology is meeting at Uppsala, Sweden, August 14-19, 1977 . One sessionhas been allocated by the organizing International Sociological Association to Social Network analysis .This is clearly inadequate, but through the kind auspices of our Swedish members, Xke Daun and BengtRundblad, Professor Anita Jacobson Widding has kindly allowed us to use a seminar room at the Universityof Uppsala's "Department of Ethnology, especially non-European Studies" (Etnologi, sarskiltutomeuropeisk) . Thus we now have the possibility of organizing a good many quality sessions, bothbroad and narrow in scope . (For purposes of impressing Deans, let's call this the "World Congress ofNetwork Analysis") .As these facilities have only just recently been made available, our planning is at an earlystage . Joel Levine (Math/Social Sciences Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H . 03755, USA ;603-646-3213) is the overall Program Coordinator : contact him if you want to organize any sort ofsession or if you want to give a paper . As it is quite late to be starting on such an enterprise, weurge prospective conferees to move expeditiously . (And to forestall a host of letters--No! We do nothave any travel funds available . Canadian citizens may have some luck with the Ministry of ExternalAffairs .)Late News! : Bengt Rundblad has just agreed to work with Joel Levine as Co-Coordinator . Thoseinterested in organizing papers and sessions who would like to coordinate with Bengt can reach him at :Department of Sociology, University of Gothenberg, Karl Johansgatan 27, S-41459, Gothenberg, Sweden .Tel : (031)-1248-50 .Networks of Computers,Organizations and People--A Request for Help"We are starting several studies of computer use in organizations and are studying socialnetworks of users--intraorganizationally and extra-organizationally . We are interested in receivinginformation about other studies which compare properties of such networks ."Rob Kling, Dept . of Information and Computer Science, Univ . of California, Irvine, CA, USA92717(continued on page 38)