Workshop leaders Zeter and Thunell have observed the difficulty with which some library patrons identify and locate journals. They used this session to explore questions about how libraries today offer access to serials and how information about serials is presented to the public. They noted some characteristics of typical student researchers and discussed the cause of increased user demand for serials. They demonstrated the two electronic serials "pathways" used at Michigan State University (MSU), Erasmus and MAGIC, and described their respective advantages and disadvantages. Zeter and Thunell ended with recommendations for serials searching improvements and suggestions of issues for future study.

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This paper gives suggestions for how remote access electronic resources could be described in bibliographic records and provides examples of such descriptive practices. These practices are developed from principles expressed in the International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources and promote a broadening of the concept of physical description as expressed in Chapter 9 of the Anglo‐American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition. The paper encourages catalogers to reach beyond their comfort zone to create timely and patron‐friendly bibliographic records for electronic resources.