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Electronic resources have been a growing portion of library collections. , Concurrent with their growth in numbers has been the need for libraries to manage their access, including through the library catalog. Libraries have addressed the need to represent e-resources in their catalogs by modifying and transforming cataloging rules originally designed to handle physical items, and by developing new workflows and guidelines. Since 2000, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and its predecessor, the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO), have created three working groups to address cataloging practice and catalog access to e-resources for member libraries participating in the shared union catalog (currently the I-Share union catalog). The third of these, the Cataloging Electronic Resources/Electronic Resources Display in the OPAC Task Force (2009) (hereafter 2009 Task Force), was to build upon and update work done by the previous iterations of the Task Force and update recommendations created in 2004. The 2009 Task Force, of which the authors of this paper were members, was given the following charge:  Document needed changes to the 2004 Report and provide additional recommendations as appropriate.  Identify current best practices and additional issues related to the cataloging of, access to, and display of electronic resources in I-Share's consortial environment.  Identify related issues concerning access to electronic resources that are outside of this charge and make recommendations to the I-Share User's Group for additional action. 1 In 2003 the second Task Force surveyed library consortia from around the United States as they determined how to revise the existing recommendations. 2 Rather than perform another national survey, Consortial Cataloging Guidelines for E-Resources 2 the 2009 Task Force chose to focus its efforts in a more inward direction and designed a survey to collect information about how I-Share members handle e-resources cataloging issues, their awareness of and compliance with the existing consortial recommendations, and challenges faced in e-resources cataloging practices. These 2010 survey results provide a snapshot of a group of libraries' cataloging practices. The survey, which covers all types of e-resources, and the recommendations that were developed from it, provides a rarely found example of an attempt to identify and to address major issues surrounding e-resources cataloging, regardless of format or record source. Libraries participating in the survey cover a wide variety of academic libraries, including libraries at large research institutions, small private liberal arts schools, community colleges, and libraries at specialized research institutions. This paper reports on the results of that survey and the recommendations developed by the 2009 Task Force. It will be of interest to other libraries and consortia considering their own cataloging practices in this environment of continued growth in electronic access and new methods of ...