This committee holds a discussion forum at each Midwinter Meeting. The forum traditionally includes panels of representatives from appropriate publishers. Recent forums have been on such topics as encyclopedias, reference publishing on the web, statistical resources, product development, pricing of reference sources, and electronic sources. Representative policy statements for electronic formats from many public and academic libraries are available on the committee's web page. The complete archive of policy statements collected by the committee has been deposited in the ALA Library.
Publication is forthcoming.
The annotated bibliography on this topic is available on the committee's web page. The committee is planning a program on electronic journals for the 1999 Annual Conference. They compile an annual list of Notable Books for use by the general reader and librarians who work with adult readers. The committee also arranges the Literary Tastes Breakfasts at the ALA Annual Conferences, featuring appearances by authors of some of the year's Notable Books. Future projects will build on this report.