Fall 1994 Meeting of the Coalition Task Force

Agenda

FALL 1994 MEETING OF THE TASK FORCE
November 29-30, 1994

Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel
1500 Epcot Resorts Boulevard
Lake Buena Vista, Florida 32830-2653
Phone: 407-934-4290
Fax: 407-934-4880

Highlights

Theme

• Managing the Networked Organization.

Purposes

• To promote discussion of key management issues arising from networks and networked information resources and services in contemporary organizations.

• To promote understanding of networking technologies, and to encourage participation in their future development and application.

• To promote understanding of the national and international policy environment for networking and networked information resources and services.

• To provide an environment in which people associated with the Coalition and its Task Force can share experiences, visions, and plans.

• To provide an opportunity for people associated with the Coalition and its Task Force to discuss network and networked information policy issues and initiatives.

• To provide an opportunity for representatives of members of the Coalition Task Force, leaders of the Coalition working groups, members of the Coalition Steering Committee, and the Coalition CEOs to identify needs, to formulate priorities, and to evaluate results.

• To provide a special opportunity to interact with the CAUSE program and membership.

Plenary Sessions

• Management issues that institutions and organizations are framing and addressing in their efforts to seize the opportunities and to face the challenges of networked information resources and services.

• Key developments affecting the development of networks and networked information resources and services in the United States and the United Kingdom.

• Internet security and privacy strategies, technologies, and issues.

• How technology pushes and is pulled by the changes affecting all aspects of society.

• Update on Coalition priorities, projects, and strategies.

Project Briefings, Working Group Meetings, and Synergy Sessions

• Small group briefings and discussions on/of projects, ideas, and issues related to Coalition themes and priorities in order to provide a forum for sharing information and for exploring perspectives.

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Schedule for Tuesday, November 29, 1994

8:00 am -- Registration and Refreshments [Southern Hemisphere IV/V and Foyer]
A light breakfast will be available.

9:00 am -- Welcome and Overview [Southern Hemisphere III]
Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, will call the Meeting to order and make opening remarks and announcements.

9:15 am -- Plenary Session [Southern Hemisphere III]
Jerry D. Campbell, University Librarian, Duke University, and President, Association of Research Libraries, Jack McCredie, Vice Provost for Information Systems and Technology, University of California, at Berkeley, Carla Stoffle, Dean of Libraries, University of Arizona, and Ann Stunden, Director, Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University, will explore key management issues arising from the development and use of networked information resources and services, giving special attention to issues and strategies that characterize and promote effective working relationships between information technologists and librarians and to ways that the Coalition might facilitate progress in this area.

10:30 am -- Break [Southern Hemisphere III/V and Foyer]

11:00 am -- Project Briefings and Synergy Sessions

Small group briefings and discussions on/of projects, ideas, and issues related to Coalition themes and priorities in order to provide a forum for sharing information and for exploring perspectives.

Key Issues Affecting the Management of the Networked Organization [Oceanic 1]
Jerry D. Campbell, University Librarian, Duke University, and President, Association of Research Libraries

Jack McCredie, Vice Provost for Information Systems and Technology, University of California, at Berkeley

Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

Carla Stoffle, Dean of Libraries, University of Arizona

Ann Stunden, Director, Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University

This session will provide an opportunity for in-depth discussion of the ideas and suggestions presented during the opening plenary session, and for spirited exchange with the panelists who participated in that session. Of particular interest in this discussion will be prospective agenda items for the Coalition and its program.

Group Electronic Site Licenses: Hopes, Fears, and Issues as Seen From Many Sides of the Table [Oceanic 2]
Sean Devine, Vice President and General Manager, Library Division, Information Access Company

Ronald Dubberly, Director, Atlanta-Fulton County Library

Eleanor Jo Rodger, President, Urban Libraries Council

Mark A. Tesoriero, Market Research Account Executive, Robert Ubell Associates

Robert N. Ubell, President, Robert Ubell Associates

Many issues and concerns arise as libraries and vendors work to create new, fair, and hopefully simple ways to price and distribute information in electronic form. This session will examine potential goals and models for establishing group site licenses as one possibility. It will give special attention to the challenge of such licenses for public libraries, particularly public libraries in large urban settings. The session will also provide an update on the Coalition's Rights for Electronic Access to and Delivery of Information (READI) Project, whose draft guide Negotiating Networked Information Contracts and Licenses has recently been released for public review.

Arts, Culture, and Humanities Priorities and Activites [Oceanic 3]
Charles Henry, Director of Libraries, Vassar College

This session will provide an opportunity to discuss priorities and activities in the general area of how networks and networked information can be used to advance the interests of the arts, culture, and humanities communities. Of special interest will be the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), an alliance that seeks the fullest possible participation of the arts, culture, and humanities communities in the National Information Infrastructure Initiative and in related developments around the world. NINCH began just a year ago as a joint undertaking of the Coalition, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), and it is now in the early stages of attracting additional sponsors and supporters. The most significant product of this collaboration to date is Humanities and Arts on the Information Highways: A Profile, which outlines the case for providing all Americans with electronic access to the Nation's cultural heritage and identifies the issues in and challenges to making this possible. This session will provide an update on NINCH, provide a briefing on related ACLS and Getty AHIP interests and projects, and consider, using An American Arts and Letters Network: A Proposal as a point of departure, priorities and strategies the Coalition should adopt and pursue in this general area.

Creating New Learning Communities via the Network [Oceanic 4]
Susan Perry, College Librarian, Mount Holyoke College

Course innovation using the Internet as a vehicle involves more than technological innovation. For instance, many innovators report that the development of their courses changed the way they interact with other colleagues on campus, who became part of an instructional development and delivery team. For this basic reason, the Coalition created its "New, Networked Learning Communities" workshop, which it offered for the first time at Estrella Mountain Community College on July 31 and August 1, 1994, and which was co-sponsored by Educom, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). Ten institutions participated in the first workshop, representing teams that have been developing new learning communities through the integration of networking and networked information into higher education teaching and learning environments. Participating teams used new information technologies and network-based applications to support and build groups of faculty and students using collaborative strategies to improve both course content and the teaching and learning process. Plans are being drafted for the second workshop to be held next summer. This session will feature a videotape of the first workshop, and will provide an opportunity to discuss how the workshop could be improved.

Government Information Locator Services (GILS) [Oceanic 5]
Eliot Christian, Information Systems Division, U.S. Geological Survey

Avra Michelson, Digital Libraries Technologies, MITRE Corporation

Celia Shapiro, Digital Libraries Applications, MITRE Corporation

As a part of the National Information Infrastructure, the US Federal government is establishing a Government Information Locator Service (GILS) to help the public locate and access information. A global information locator is also envisioned. Federal policy for implementation and a Federal Information Processing Standard were released in October. The first part of the session will discuss current status and provide practical help for information providers to become GILS-compliant. Over the last year a team of staff from MITRE developed a prototype GILS-compliant information locator for fifteen government agencies. The second part of the session will introduce participants to the key issues the development team confronted in building the locator, and the chief lessons learned, especially as pertains to the development of the data architecture, the community response to data population efforts, and through the user evaluation of the application.

The Berkeley Finding Aids Project: Providing Access to Images Through SGML Encoded Text [Oceanic 6]
Bernard J. Hurley, Director of Library Systems, University of California, Berkeley

The Berkeley Finding Aids Project is a collaborative endeavor to test the feasibility and desirability of developing an encoding standard for archive, museum, and library finding aids. Finding aids are documents used to describe, control, and provide access to collections of related materials. The first task will be to create a prototype encoding standard for finding aids. This prototype standard will be in the form of a Standard Generalized Markup Language (ISO 8879) Document Type Definition (SGML DTD). Building a prototype database of finding aids is the second objective of the Project. Available hardware and software will also be evaluated. This session will provide an overview of this specific project leading to a general discussion of finding aid requirements and strategies.

Architectures and Standards Priorities and Activities [Oceanic 7]
Clifford A. Lynch, Director, Library Automation, University of California, Office of the President

Coalition priorities and activities in the general area of concepts, models, and protocols that enable the interoperability of networked information systems, resources, and services will be discussed. Particular attention will be paid to Uniform Resource Locators / Numbers (URL/Ns), Version 3 of the Intersystem Search and Retrieval Standard Z39.50, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and its relationship to the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) popularized in the WorldWideWeb. The relationship of these and other topics to the Coalition's recently announced initiative to produce a white paper on "Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (NIDR)" (which is the subject of a separate project briefing) will also be considered.

Networked Access to and Delivery of Dissertations and Theses [Oceanic 8]
David Billick, Director of Development, UMI

John D. Gaboury, Dean of Libraries, Mississippi State University

Wendy Pradt Lougee, Director, Digital Library Program, University of Michigan

Steven Worona, Assistant Director, Information Technologies, Cornell University

Since the Coalition-sponsored design meeting of October 1992, several projects have been undertaken to facilitate networked access to and delivery of dissertations and theses. As part of the Monticello Electronic Library Initiative, the Southeastern Universities Research Association has proposed a demonstration project entitled "Unlocking Research in Dissertations, Theses, and Technical Reports Through Advanced Information Technology." The CUPID (Consortium for University Printing and Information Dissemination) Project for distributed printing will also enhance distribution of theses and dissertations. UMI is taking advantage of re-engineered microfilming, imaging, and printing operations to greatly improve delivery time of dissertation copies and to ultimately offer affordable networked delivery as an alternative to interlibrary loan. These services are being prototyped with the University of Michigan in the "Dissertations Express" project. This session will review the status of these initiatives and summarize near-term next steps and outstanding issues.

12:30 pm -- Lunch [Southern Hemisphere III/IV/V]

1:15 pm -- Plenary Session [Southern Hemisphere III/V/V]

Toni Carbo Bearman, Dean and Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, will present her views on the Clinton Administration's National Information Infrastructure (NII) Initiative and will describe her priorities for the NII Advisory Council, of which she is a member; Jim Williams, Executive Director, Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET), will present a perspective on and provide a status report about the transition from a NSFNet-based to a community-based U.S. Internet; and, Derek Law, Librarian, Kings College, London, will present an update on trends and developments in the United Kingdom, with particular attention to the new funding initiative of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

2:15 pm -- Circulation Break

2:30 pm -- Project Briefings and Synergy Sessions

Small group briefings and discussions on/of projects, ideas, and issues related to Coalition themes and priorities in order to provide a forum for sharing information and for exploring perspectives.

Key Developments Affecting the Evolution of Networks and Networked Information [Oceanic 1]
Toni Carbo Bearman, Dean and Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh

Derek Law, Librarian, Kings College, London

Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

Jim Williams, Executive Director, Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET)

This session will provide an opportunity for in-depth discussion of the ideas and suggestions presented during the after-lunch plenary session, and for spirited exchange with the panelists who participated in that session. Of particular interest in this discussion will be prospective agenda items for the Coalition and its program.

Building the Digital Library from the Gound Up: A Collaborative Effort [Oceanic 2]
Lizanne Payne, Executive Director, Washington Research Library Consortium

Patricia Stevens, Consultant, OCLC

The Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) and OCLC have entered into a research partnership to develop workstation software that will use electronic imaging and OCR to convert existing local materials into electronic databases. These resources will be accessible through OCLC's SiteSearch software and will be available across the Consortium's Washington, DC service area Consortium network (and, in some cases, across Internet). Two pilot projects are slated for Spring 1995: a prototype electronic reserve system at George Washington University and George Mason University; and, a database of images from George Mason's American National Theater Academy archives. The universities are working with WRLC and OCLC to build interfaces using WebZ, OCLC's HTTP-Z39.50 gateway software, and NCSA Mosaic clients. This discussion will highlight how the networked environment and rapid prototyping tools facilitate collaborative work. With the proliferation of information resources on the WorldWideWeb, is it possible to extend beyond partnership into broader collaborative ventures? Could a collection of HTML-based information navigation and retrieval tools facilitate this broader collaboration?

Forging a National Image Alliance [Oceanic 3]
Paul Gherman, Director of Libraries, Kenyon College

Charles Henry, Director of Libraries, Vassar College

There are a number of critically important projects ongoing at present that are alliances of different individuals, groups, or institution focusing on one or more aspects of digital imaging, e.g., problems/challenges of technology standards, copyright, resolution, mutlivalence, costs, applicability to the curriculum, influence on methodology, and such. This session will bring representatives of some of these projects together, pose some questions in very broad terms, and consider forming an alliance (perhaps more accurately a "meta-alliance") on a national (perhaps even international) scale. Questions to be discussed include: what are the benefits of a very large alliance that might include museums, universities, colleges, K-12 schools, cultural institutions and individual artists, to name a few; how might such an alliance be developed; what are the chief obstacles for a national alliance; what might such an alliance look like; how might such an alliance be organized; and, is such an alliance at all feasible. Panelists will include representatives from the imaging projects of OCLC, the Library of Congress, the Getty Art History Information Program, MUSE, and Eastman Kodak.

INforum: A Library / Information Technology Collaboration in Professional Development [Oceanic 4]
Gerald Bernbom, Assistant Director and Senior Information Technology Architect, Office of Information Technologies, Indiana University

Charlotte Hess, Director of Library and Information Services, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University

INforum is a collaborative program at Indiana University created by librarians, technologists and information scientists to help meet the professional development needs within these increasingly interdependent professions. Now in its second year, INforum programs have addressed a range of issues related to networked information and its increasing importance to higher education. Some examples of session topics include: standards and the management of Internet resources; research in electronic texts; usability and user-centered design; copyright and digital media; and, the local impact of the National Information Infrastructure Initiative. INforum also sponsored "Networked Information and the Scholar," a nationally distributed video teleconference, and helped develop the "Internet Librarian Conference," a full-day educational program for over 140 librarians and information professionals. This briefing session will provide an overview of the INforum program, with discussion of key issues including: the need for professional development; the value of grassroots initiatives and local focus in program design; collaboration as a work-style; and, the role of library and information technology administrators in fostering collaboration and local initiative.

The Columbia Action Agenda: A Strategic Project Proposal to Advance Electronic Scholarly Communications in Universities [Oceanic 5]
Douglas Bennett, Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies

Carol Mandel, Deputy University Librarian, Columbia University

James O'Donnell, Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Ann Okerson, Director, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries

The crisis in scholarly publishing (prices for journals through the roof, cutbacks in acquisition of monographs, and debates about document delivery) is very real, and it is already shaping the nature and possibility of scientific and academic discourse. But on most campuses, the working academic still sees only indirect symptoms and does not sense the true nature of the crisis. A working group of thirty volunteers (librarians, university presses, and learned societies with publishing programs) met on September 23rd at Columbia University for strategic and tactical discussions about how best to influence the development of scholarly publishing to favor the widest and freest flow of information for the benefit of education and research. The result of this brainstorming session was an action agenda and a longer first draft document on university electronic publishing. These documents will be widely discussed in the upcoming months, to explore the possibility of undertaking one or more recommended projects.

CUPID Update and Demo [Oceanic 6]
Steve Worona, Assistant to the Vice President for Special Projects, Cornell University

Carol Taylor, IT Services Department Group, Harvard University

CUPID is the Consortium for University Printing and Information Distribution, an informal and open collection of universities interested in the distributed printing over the Internet of finished, high-quality, production documents. CUPID is a Coalition project, created four years ago by the Xerox University Advisory Panel, receiving financial support from Kodak, Sun, and Xerox. In the past six months, CUPID has evolved from a paper architecture document to a successfully prototyped and demonstrated reality, named "Innovation of the Year" by Xplor, International. At this session, representatives from Cornell and Harvard will report on the recent flurry of CUPID activity and also provide a live demonstration of CUPID, including a WorldWideWeb-based interface. Existing and prospective members of the CUPID Consortium are invited to attend, as well as representatives of any organization that might wish to become a test CUPID publisher or printshop.

Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (NIDR) White Paper [Oceanic 7]
Clifford Lynch, Director of Library Automation, University of California, Office of the President

Avra Michelson, Digital Libraries Technologies, Mitre Corporation

Craig Summerhill, Systems Coordinator, Coalition for Networked Information

The Coalition recently launched a new research initiative to explore architectures and standards for advancing networked information discovery and retrieval (NIDR) in highly distributed heterogeneous environments. The three convenors of this session will author a white paper on NIDR technologies and their relationship to existing and future networked data architectures, standards, and structures. The white paper will focus on technical as opposed to policy issues. The scope will be limited to exploring problems associated with identifying, selecting, and retrieving resources and objects in a large distributed network. The white paper will also provide a foundation for subsequent efforts that will address other aspects of the overall process of network navigation, including the training and support of network navigators. This session will explore some of the issues that the white paper will cover, and will provide an opportunity for comment on and input into the initiative.

Scholarly Publishing Using the WorldWideWeb [Oceanic 8]
Stuart L. Weibel, Senior Research Scientist, Office of Research, OCLC

The WorldWideWeb (Web) has rapidly become the most popular means for accessing networked information, but at this time specific disadvantages compromise its usefulness for scholarly publishing. OCLC has developed a process for delivering scholarly journal publishing into the Web without losing the special characters, the richness of SGML indexing, and session-based, Z39.50 information search and retrieval that typify many conventional document retrieval systems. Documents are encoded initially in Standard Generalized Markup Language and subsequently translated to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the lingua franca of the Web. A hybrid Web server and Z39.50 gateway marries the stateless model of the Web to the session-based idiom of Z39.50 operations. This system will be used to make Applied Physics Letters Online, from the American Institute of Physics, available in January of 1995, with other journals to follow.

3:45 pm -- Break [Southern Hemisphere Foyer III/V]

4:00 pm -- Plenary Session [Southern Hemisphere IV/V]

William A. Ruh, Associate Technical Director and Director, Workstation Systems Engineering Center, MITRE Corporation, will provide an overview of Internet security issues and strategies, drawing upon the experience of MITRE in hardening various Internet tools and technologies, like the WorldWideWeb and NCSA Mosaic; Raman Khanna, Director, Distributed Computing and Communication Systems, Stanford University, will provide an overview of Internet user authentication issues and strategies, drawing upon the priorities and plans of the Common Solutions Group; Peter S. Graham, Associate University Librarian for Technical and Networked Information Services, Rutgers University, will provide an overview of Internet content authentication issues and strategies, drawing upon his work for the Commission on Preservation and Access; and, David Y. Payton, Vice President, Processing and Networking Services Division, Information Technology Association of America, will provide an overview of Federal policy and legislative efforts in the area of network security and privacy, drawing upon his experience with Clipper, digital telephony, and related topics.

5:30 pm -- Reception [Southern Hemisphere III]
Enjoy complimentary wine, beer, and soft drinks and a light buffet along with the company of your fellow Meeting participants. A cash bar will also be available.

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Schedule for Wednesday, November 30, 1994

7:15 am -- Registration and Continental Breakfast [Southern Hemisphere IV/V and Foyer]
A breakfast buffet will be offered.

8:15 am -- Plenary Session [Northern Hemisphere Ballroom]
This joint session with the CAUSE Annual Meeting will feature Jennifer James, cultural anthropologist, lecturer, writer, and commentator, who will speak about the tremendous changes affecting all aspects of our society, including higher education, and how technology pushes and is pulled by these changes.

9:30 am -- Break [Oceanic Foyer]

10:00 am -- Project Briefings and Synergy Sessions

Small group briefings and discussions on/of projects, ideas, and issues related to Coalition themes and priorities in order to provide a forum for sharing information and for exploring perspectives.

Fair Use of Networked Information [Oceanic 1]
Kenneth Frazier, Director, General Library System, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Brian Hawkins, Vice President for Academic Planning and Administration, Brown University

The Clinton Administration's "green paper" draft report on intellectual property rights and the National Information Infrastructure (NII) proposes to add "transmission" rights to the exclusive rights of copyright owners. The report also suggests that fair use is important only to meet the needs of poor and disadvantaged people. The convenors will outline and discuss the legal basis and public policy interest in preserving a much stronger doctrine of fair use in an electronic environment. Ken Frazier will also discuss Intellectual Property: An Association of Research Libraries Statement of Principles, of which he is the principal author. Brian Hawkins will describe Educom's work in this area.

A Center for Collaborative Learning: A Model for Supporting the Library Without Walls [Oceanic 2]
Willis M. Hubbard, College Librarian, Gettysburg College

In a seeming contradiction, colleges and universities are extolling the virtues of the library without walls while also refocusing from teaching to learning. How will networked faculty and student customers become competent in learning and effectively utilizing new tools? This session presents for discussion a model of a "Center for Collaborative Learning" as an organization and physical entity designed to support the library without walls. This model is based upon: (1) new partnering of libraries, computing services, media, telecommunications, printing and re-publishing, college stores, faculty development centers, and commercial ventures, etc.; and, (2) new ideas about inclusive physical facilities for many of these partnerships. It will also consider the hypothesis that more, not fewer, customers will be entering our libraries.

National Learning Initiative [Oceanic 3]
Carol Twigg, Vice President, Educom

Educom's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative's (NLII) goal is to demonstrate how information technology can increase both the quality of learning and the cost effectiveness of instruction on a national scale. Launched in the context of the emerging National Information Infrastructure (NII), the Initiative is advancing a vision of the strategic application of information technology to the educational process. The realization of a rich teaching and learning environment via the NII requires a major collaborative effort by those with the knowledge, skills and resources to address the technical, operational, economic and cultural barriers to its creation. Institutions, organizations and companies participating in the Initiative will advance this agenda by: (1) exchanging ideas in a program of collaborative advocacy; and, (2) developing and testing scalable prototypes to demonstrate the feasibility of the goal.

Working Together: A Planning Retreat for Library and Information Technology Professionals [Oceanic 4]
Gerald Bernbom, Assistant Director and Senior Information Technology Architect, Office of Information Technologies, Indiana Unversity

Meredith Butler, Dean and Director of Libraries, State University of New York at Albany

Martha Fields, Director, Information Resource Management, State University System of Florida

Over the past ten years, the roles and responsibilities of both librarians and information technologists on university and college campuses have changed. These changes have many root causes, but many have occurred in response to technological innovations and new patterns of scholarly communication. Some of the changes have brought librarians and information technologists into closer contact, and, in some cases, blurred the lines separating their areas of operation. To best serve the needs of the institutions that employ them, these groups must work effectively together. This session reports on a new Coalition program that is designed to support and enhance the synergy of those already successful in working together and to provide assistance to those who continue to struggle with their differences. The first "Working Together" retreat was held in October, 1994, and plans are being made for subsequent offerings. This session will also provide attendees with the opportunity to share their own experiences with collaboration.

Describing Image Files: The Need for a Technical Standard [Oceanic 5]
Jennifer Trant, Manager, Imaging Initiatiave, Getty Art History Information Program

Howard Besser, Visiting Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan

Archives of digital images are being created around the world. Each of these is shaped by its technical chracteristics, yet the technological means by which images are created are rarely recorded. Scanning technologies influence the result of the image capture process. The source material scanned dictates how much information is available for conversion. Color correction alters the information presented by an image. Compression algorithms may introduce artifacts. Each impinges on the informational value of the visual content of a image file. This session will provide an opportunity for those who are concerned about the long-term viability of digital image archives to come together and define a strategy for identifying and describing the standard characteristics of an image file. A working group will be formed to develop a draft for comment, and a process for review will be formulated.

The Princeton University Electronic Card Catalog [Oceanic 6]
Eileen Henthorne, Assistant Systems Librarian, Princeton University

Sandeep Somaiya, Software Engineer, VTLS, Inc.

The Princeton University Libraries' catalog of pre-1980 materials has entered the computer age through an electronically formatted card catalog. The catalog will give users computer access to more than 6 million catalog card images representing 1.75 million items. The electronic card catalog will complement the existing online catalog of 900,000 items cataloged since 1980. The electronic card catalog gives Princeton the largest image database of any library in the world, as a result of this first-of-its-kind scanning project. In addition to preserving and automating the card catalog, the project has yielded greater speed and ease of use for faculty members and students searching the pre-1980 materials. Forty workstations are located in Firestone Library and in the 13 branch libraries.

CIC Virtual Electronic Library Status Report [Oceanic 7]
Charlene Mason, Assistant University Librarian for Automated Systems, University of Minnesota

The Consortium on Interinstitutional Cooperation (CIC), also known as "The Big Ten," is engaged in a two year project to develop the first stage of a Virtual Electronic Library for the thirteen major research libraries in the Consortium. In the first year, all of the online library catalogs were connected using Z39.50 protocols. The focus of the second year is on support of interlibrary loan to share the resources of the libraries more effectively. The discussion will cover the history of the project, what has been achieved to date, plans for the second year, and the "gotchas" along the way.

Cost Centers and Measures in the Networked Information Value-Chain [Oceanic 8]
Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

The Coalition will soon begin gathering data for an initiative, which it is undertaking with the support of the Council on Library Resources, which will lead to a white paper on cost centers and measures along the entire value-chain of productive relations and activities that link authors with readers in the scholarly and scientific communication and publication system. This session will overview the purposes and intended outcomes of this initiative, and will consider the methods and materials that the initiative will use to pursue those purposes and to achieve those outcomes.

10:45 am -- Circulation Break

11:00 am -- Plenary Session [Southern Hemisphere IV/V]

Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, will moderate an update on Coalition priorities, initiatives, and projects. Project and Working Group leaders will describe selected initiatives.

12:00 pm -- Meeting Adjourns

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