As the Libraries continues to explore options for making electronic resources accessible to patrons through various pages in the Libraries' web structure, questions regarding subject organization have arisen. In order to discuss these questions and establish some initial guidelines for further web development, the Subject Organization of Electronic Resources group (SOER) is formed. This group represents a joint effort between the Working Group on Bibliographic Access to Electronic Resources (WGBAER) and the Web Management Team (WMT).

SOER will be co-chaired by the chair of WGBAER and WMT. Even though it is recognized that the addition of another committee appointment represents a commitment in time and energy, interested committee members from these two committees are invited first to join as members of SOER. If necessary, libary staff from outside this group will be invited to join in order to round out the discussion. Committee members serve not only for their expertise, but also as representatives to their areas of the libraries.

The focus of SOER is to explore subject access in the following areas initially: the databases web pages, the ejournals web page, the internet sites web page, and the subject specialists web pages. Some initial issues to be discussed will be the need for and type of subject access, consistency of subject access between pages and the local catalog, and mechanisms for giving input to subject access development.