Over 200 higher education institutions participated in the conference. It reports on analysis done of vendor statistics reports, and on findings from surveys and site visits in participating libraries. An ARL E-Metrics Project Update meeting will be held at the ALA midwinter conference in January for project participants. The ARL Working Group on Database Vendor Statistics will also meet during the ARL midwinter conference to identify best practices for reporting vendor statistics to libraries analyzed in Phase One. Please send your feedback about this report as well as future steps ARL might take in relation to the report to Martha Kyrillidou .
Early evaluations are very positive.
For more information, contact Mary Case . Directors and senior staff in research libraries are encouraged to attend the Directors Forum and should RSVP to Mary Jackson by 8 January 2001. For additional questions on the Directors Forum, please contact Mary Jackson . Project members discussed the most recent developments in the creation of the online union list, which became live and interactive in the late summer with CRL holdings only listed. The major topics of discussion at the Nashville meeting were analysis of the existing interface, accuracy of the data and search process, and planning for member input of all holdings current and retrospective.