Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Specialist, Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) Michael Lesk, Executive Director, Computer Science Research, Bellcore Ricky Erway, Associate Coordinator, American Memory, Library of Congress Pamela Q.J. Andre, Associate Director, Automation, and Judith A. Zidar, Coordinator, National Agricultural Text Digitizing Program (NATDP), National Agricultural Library (NAL) 12:30- 1:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Session V. Approaches to Preparing Electronic Texts. Discussion of approaches to structuring text for the computer; pros and cons of text coding, description of methods in practice, and comparison of text-coding methods. Moderator: Susan Hockey, Director, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), Rutgers and Princeton Universities David Woodley Packard C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, Editor, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), University of Illinois-Chicago Eric M. Calaluca, Vice President, Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. 3:30- 4:00 PM Break 4:00 PM Session VI. Copyright Issues. Marybeth Peters, Policy Planning Adviser to the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress 5:00 PM Session VII. Conclusion. General discussion. What topics were omitted or given short shrift that anyone would like to talk about now? Is there a "group" here? What should the group do next, if anything? What should the Library of Congress do next, if anything? Moderator: Prosser Gifford, Director for Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress 6:00 PM Adjourn *** *** *** ****** *** *** *** Appendix II: ABSTRACTS SESSION I Avra MICHELSON Forecasting the Use of Electronic Texts by Social Sciences and Humanities Scholars This presentation explores the ways in which electronic texts are likely to be used by the non-scientific scholarly community. Many of the remarks are drawn from a report the speaker coauthored with Jeff Rothenberg, a computer scientist at The RAND Corporation.