Access to the collection is unrestricted.
The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Joe Perzel in 2000.
Association for Systems Management Records (CBI 146), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
The Association for Systems Management (ASM), Twin Cities Chapter, was established as the Systems and Procedures Association of American, Twin Cities Chapter, in 1948, and incorporated in 1951. In the 1990s, the ASM merged with the Twin Cities Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (previously the Computing Association of Minnesota) to form the Minnesota Information Professionals Society (MnIPS).
The Twin Cities Chapter of the ASM was established to promote a broader understanding of the systems function as a component of effective management and to support the data processing community in the Twin Cities area. The chapter held monthly meetings, published a newsletter eight times each year, conducted educational seminars, and was involved in the organization of the Minnesota Joint Computer Conference (MJCC), among other activities.
The collection contains minutes from monthly ASM directors’ meetings, 1977-1994; newsletters, 1974-1994; membership materials; and a small amount of committee records and materials relating to the MJCC.
The materials in this collection are arranged into the following
groups:
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
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