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This article discusses the impending update to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR) and its potential impact on libraries and other metadata communities.

This article reviews the E-Prints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS) open access archive. E-LIS is part of the Research in Computing, Library and Information Science (RCLIS) project, an international effort to organize and disseminate scholarly papers in librarianship and related fields. E-LIS uses open source applications, and joins a growing number of OAI-compliant services dedicated to providing free access to scholarly information.

I have a feeling that electronic journals may be the 'microforms' of the waning years of the century, and predict that their impact will rise from the invisible to the miniscule in the next five years and that they will still be a relatively unimportant factor in 2001."-Michael Gorman ABSTRACT This article describes administrative metadata, and its use in managing electronic resources. The focus of the article is an interview with Tim Jewell, Head of Collection Management Services at the

This article reviews the recent report, "Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California." It discusses some of the report's recommendations in light of similar initiatives underway. The article includes comments from John Riemer, Chair of the Bibliographic Services Task Force, the group responsible for the report. The article concludes by affirming many of the suggestions detailed in the report.