Reports of Conferences, Institutes, and Seminars.

Reports are from a program planned by the Southern California Technical Processes Group (SCTPG) on "Managing the Electronic Monster; The Impact on the Library User" and a program at the University at Buffalo (UB) on the crisis in the scholarly communication system, "Publishing the Future: Scholarly Communication in an Information Age." The Southern California Technical Processes Group (SCTPG) chose "Managing the Electronic Monster; The Impact on the Library User" as an interesting title for the program reported on by Manuel Urrizola. Equating electronic resources with a monster certainly resonates with this column editor, who used the metaphor of battling the Hydra in a presentation at a past Florida Library Association conference. An impressive list of local California speakers addressed such issues as the single versus separate record approach, aggregator-neutral records, acquisitions and licensing of electronic resources, and public service concerns. Former Serials Review editor Cindy Hepfer played a key role in planning the content for the University at Buffalo (UB) program on scholarly communication entitled "Publishing the Future." The purpose of the program was to raise awareness in the UB community, especially among faculty, administrators, and students, to the growing crisis in scholarly communication and to look at some future developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]