SSCC News for March 2004

SSCC Member Questionnaire
New Scanner in I/O Room
SSCC's Spring Training Schedule
Interested in Joining a SAS Users Group?

SSCC Member Questionnaire

Later this month, you will receive e-mail from students enrolled in the UW School of Business's MBA Marketing Research course asking you to fill out a web-based questionnaire. The purpose of this questionnaire is to investigate service/resource awareness and offerings of the SSCC. These students are working with SSCC staff to help us identify ways of improving resources/services in several ways:

• get a better idea of the importance of various resources/services to your work so that we can optimize our service set, de-emphasizing or discontinuing services that are no longer important and increasing services where needed.
• identify which statistical software is important to your work so we can improve support where necessary.
• identify what we can do to improve our training program.
• identify the most effective means of disseminating information so that you don't miss out on new technologies we provide to enhance your research endeavors.

We would really appreciate your taking the time to complete the survey.

New Scanner in I/O Room

We have a new scanner in the I/O room (Soc. Science 4411A) that was purchased with Capital Exercise funds. It has a document feeder, can scan double-sided pages, and can handle slides. The scanner is currently available on a first-come first-served basis, but this summer we will begin offering a new scanning service for SSCC members. More details will be provided soon.

SSCC Spring Training Schedule

We have three training classes left this semester: Spatial Data Analysis Using GeoDa (Mar. 23, 25 10:00-11:30), Formatting Your Dissertation in Word (Apr. 6 10:00-11:30), and Accessing SSCC Resources While You Travel (Apr. 7 1:00-2:30). Visit SSCC's training web pages for registration information. Remember that all SSCC training sessions require preregistration.

Interested in Joining a SAS Users Group?

Jane Smith, a SAS programmer in IRP, is interested in starting a SAS Users Group that would meet regularly to share information. In addition, people could subscribe to a listserv for asking questions. E-mail Jane for more information: jsmith@ssc.wisc.edu.

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