These papers, presented at ALCTS' July 2000 Preconference on Metadata for Web Resources by a virtual who's who of the digital world, provide a timely overview of the challenges and difficulties of bringing order to a most unruly medium. Topics range from carefully considered viewpoints to possible standards to actual how-to's.

Contributions by: Rebecca Guenther, Regina Reynolds, Jean Hirons, Sheila S. Intner, Matthew Beacom, Brian E. C. Schottlaender, Jennifer A. Young, Norm Medeiros, Lynn Marko, Eric Miller, Diane Hillmann, Carlen Ruschoff, Laura Bayard, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, William Fietzer, Diane Boehr, Stanley Blum, William Garrison, Brad Eden, Murtha Baca, Elizabeth U. Mangan, Constance Mayer, Wendy Treadwell, Beth Picknally Camden, Michael Gorman, Clifford A. Lynch, Kris Kiesling