György Rózsa: Information: from claims to needs (Joint edition published by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Kultura Hungarian Foreign Trading Company. Budapest, 1988)
II. International relations in the field of scientific information
109 series. 1 0 The committee has several working groups, e.g. for automation, for economic bibliographies, for political science bibliography and abstracting journal editors, etc. FID C/ 3 Committee The C/3 Committee of the international Federation for documentation was founded in 1959 by documentation experts from East and West European countries, in order to modernize the social science chapters of the Universal Decimal Classification. 1 1 Basically reformed, UDC Class 3 now reflects the present-day bourgeois and Marxist social science concepts. The committee's activities today embrace disciplines other than just UDC Class 3: e.g. history and management science. 1 2 FID Committee for Social Sciences (FID/SD) The committee was founded in 1978 with the purpose to provide a forum for social science experts, as well as to advise leading organs of the FID on matters of social science information development at the national and international level. The committee publishes a newsletter entitled FID/SD Chronicle. 1 3 IFLA Social Science Libraries Section The Social Science Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions provides social science, particularly economics, libraries with a forum for the promotion and exchange of relevant information resources in general, and bibliographic services in particular. The section publishes social science information directories and a Newsletter. 1* IASSIST The International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, was founded in 1976 in order to encourage the establishment and maintenance of social science data bases and to foster international dissemination and exchange of information connected in particular with relevant machine-readable data. The IASSIST works in close co-operation with other international social science bodies, notably the International Sociological Association. IASSIST publications include the IASSIST Newsletter and IASSIST Conference Proceedings. 1 5 IFDO The International Federation of Data Organizations for the Social Sciences was established in 1977 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. IFDO closely co-operates with ECSSID, and it was among the sponsoring organizations of the Second International Conference on Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Madrid, June 1980. 1 6 IFDO activities include: data processing (especially in terms of privacy protection), standardization of data, data personnel training.
