Authentication and authorization are still needed to be addressed, but they raise the issue of privacy. In the near future the proportion of electronic to print-based materials in smaller institutions may be higher when compared to the same proportions of research libraries. Electronic services will provide the opportunity to collect usage data. We should be digitizing special collections since they represent real opportunities for learning, but describing them is the more expensive aspect of this process. There is a demand for special collections.
Geospacial data is another transitional information source.
These things fall outside our processing methods. In short, all these issues are not necessarily centered around particular department but they are all issues that need to be addressed. Current Approaches David C. Van Hoy, MIT - Van Hoy began by talking about uniform titles, and demonstrated its need with an example title called Focus. He then described some basic principles of uniform titles. He then shared some information about electronic serials, specifically the debate between separate record versus single record cataloging of them.