ABSTRACT
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has been mounting SGML full-text databases on-line since 1992, and actively building a user community around this Internet resource. Conceiving of what we do as firmly a library operation, we have sought to integrate the electronic text databases into the training, cataloging, preservation, and collection development areas of our library. Central to our selection criteria is the desire for software-and platform-independent texts—if it’s not SGML, it’s ephemeral— and central to our cataloging endeavors is an SGML bibliographic record such as the Text Encoding Initiative header. [Article copies available from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-342-9678. E-mail address: gerinfo@haworth.com]
