Digital Libraries '97 featured an invited panel by members of the Stanford Digital Library project to discuss their experiences with implementing services on the Stanford Infobus.
The panelists with the questions they addressed were:
| Luis Gravano | Introduction |
| Steve Cousins | Which distributed object system? |
| Steve Ketchpel | Z39.50 or DLIOP? |
| Luis Gravano | The merits of meta-searching |
| Kevin Chang | To translate or not to translate (queries) |
| Michelle Baldonado | How many UI's are necessary? |