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ACTION ITEMS

• Establish group of interested Seminar participants to work with follow-up recommendations.

• Maintain an e-mail listing of Seminar participants and others that expressed interest in the meeting but could not attend.

• Contact ALCTS to determine if they would like to sponsor a seminar similar in nature to this one.

• Establish liaisons with groups such as MARBI, CETH, NSF, TEI, IETF, the CIP program, and IFLA.

• Perform a survey of existing electronic document cataloging activities nationally and internationally.

• Work with the Cooperative Cataloging Council and the ALCTS Committee on Scholarly Communication to determine user needs in the realm of electronic documents.

II. DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDS AND CATALOGING NORMS

• Determine the role of data in the MARC format in providing intellectual access to electronic documents.

• Study whether alternatives such as Gophers and the Web are acceptable substitutes to traditional methods of "cataloging."

• Investigate the manner in which SGML should be mapped to MARC and vice versa. Electronic CIP program should develop a pilot SGML CIP.

• Determine standards that will provide locator information which is transportable and automatically updatable in bibliographic records.

• Convene librarians, vendors, publishers, and members of the Internet Engineering Task Force to discuss standards for describing and accessing online documents.

• Convene a task force to investigate library and information science education concerning the issues of information storage and retrieval using the Internet and cataloging digital documents.

• Establish a committee to promote interest in carrying out research on the use of digitized resources and to determine what research is currently in progress. Work with public service and collection development librarians to determine user needs and awareness of digital resources.