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It has been suggested that MODS include a date of access. The example given was for bibliographic citations. The Chicago Manual of Style includes an access date for an electronic resource (i.e. date it was last accessed, since Web sites change frequently) in standard bibliographic citations. This is different from dateModified, which is being added to MODS in version 3.0, in that dateModified tells you date that the resource was last changed, while date accessed would tell you when it was last viewed or accessed and makes no claims about when it was last modified. In addition to being able to accurately produce bibliographic citations, this date might be useful for any resource that is updated regularly-- Web sites, documents made available electronically, databases. AACR2 cataloging generally includes this information in a general note for Web sites. Since this is a date, a note does not seem an appropriate solution (a note can still be input regardless). The original suggestion was to add a type attribute to dateOther, but this is not how we have handled dates in MODS. If a specific type of date, a separate element is used. We wouldn't want to mix using a type attribute and a separate named element. Are there any thoughts about adding another date to MODS? Under <originInfo> it would be <dateAccessed>. It then would use the dateType definitions. Rebecca