University of Waterloo
                     Electronic Data Service Task Group
                   Minutes for Meeting of July 5, 1995

Present:  Albert Kemp (Secretary)	Absent:  Bill Oldfield
	  Doug Morton (Chair)                    Debbie Tytko
	  Sue Moskal                                
	  Richard Pinnell
          Shabiran Rahman
	  Carol Vogt

CC:       Bruce MacNeil, Mike Ridley, Charles Woods

1.  Minutes of Previous Meeting - Approved.

2.  Add'l Agenda - 7. Health Promotion Survey

3.  CANSIM/EPAS - 
    Nothing to report.

4.  Census, GSS, & VAW - 
    Carol Vogt distributed a chart outlining those SAS & SPSS files 
    that can now be used to extract data from the GSS files.  All SAS 
    control files work except Cycle 3, but Carol has identified the 
    problems and will continue testing.  3 out of 8 SPSS control files 
    are working and Carol will continue testing these as well.

5.  Room 222 - 
    Sue Moskal stated that we will need additional storage cabinets for 
    the office in room 222.  

    All ICPSR holdings currently kept in room 222 will be sent off for 
    cataloguing.

    Several weeks ago, the CD-ROM unit from the EDS computer system
    was used as an emergency replacement in the library's CD-ROM network
    tower.  A new CD-ROM for EDS has been ordered.  Albert Kemp will
    follow this up and keep the group informed.

    A date for announcing the official opening of the UW-EDS was discussed.
    Since there was a prior announcement in February, the group decided
    on an Open House, to be held sometime in September.  As a goal, the
    group will work towards having all 3 primary services (CANSIM, Census,
    and GSS) available by September.

6.  CANICPSR - 
    Sue Moskal mentioned a new Gopher resource available at U of T.
    Among other things, it provides a list of all participating CANICPSR
    institutions.

7.  Health Promotion Survey - 
    Shabiran Rahman indicated that D. Tytko, of the Acquisitions-Serials
    dept., will be contacting Albert Kemp about loading the data, codebook,
    and control files onto Library.  It is presumed that this data can
    be made available quickly, without too much work.


Next Meeting: July 19, 1995, 1:30 pm, Porter 428.