In this session, Michael Lesk will discuss digital library issues and related NSF initiatives. Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss these issues in depth with our keynote speaker.

This session will be a facilitated discussion on the topic of funding models that affect libraries and information technology units on campus. Some issues that will be discussed include innovative cost accounting and cost recovery, consistent cost accoun ting across services, student fees, charging for materials such as paper, and charging for services. Participants are encouraged to help lay out the issues, describe existing models, and make suggestions for CNI program initiatives in this area.

The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) continues its rapid development. Sixty-three ARL libraries have signed on as Founding Members; a Business Plan is under development; and recruitment for a full-time Enterprise Director is un derway. SPARC continues to talk with potential partners and hopes to have at least one project underway by summer 1998.

The Digital Object Identifier System (DOI) went public in October, 1997 as a system for the identification of digital content, as well as for the successful resolution of Internet hits on that content. This session will include an update on the nonprofit International DOI Foundation, which has been founded to oversee the system, an update on the role of the International ISBN Agencies and the DOI, a review of the role of NISO vis-a-vis the DOI, and an update on Book & Serial Identifier Standards and their relationship to the broader DOI initiative.

CNI's Institution-Wide Information Strategies (IWIS) initiative has brought together nine teams of institutions from the US and UK who are engaged in institution-wide information planning in a diverse array of organizational settings and with a range of o rganizational goals. In this project briefing, two participants in the IWIS project will present case study reports of strategies for the use of network tools, networked information resources, and networked organizations to provide information technology support on an institution-wide basis.

This presentation will provide information on two important networked information content initiatives. A report will be given on the current progress of UMI's ProQuest Digital Dissertations, which now has over 65,000 full text dissertations for Web acces s. The report will present the most recent features of the program and some of the lessons learned through its implementation.

Progress on the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) project, which is working towards a sustainable, worldwide, collaborative, educational initiative of universities committed to encouraging students to prepare electronic documen ts and to use digital libraries, will be described.

The Museum Digital Licensing Collective is a 501(c)3 corporation organized to help fund the digitizing of museum collections, and manage their storage, distribution, and licensing to educational institutions, commercial companies and the public. It will serve all types of museums and original materials collecting institutions. The MDLC has a close affiliation with the American Association of Museums, which has appointed a majority of the MDLC Board's museum, university, and library association directors . Computer services will be performed under contract with major academic research libraries, and the initial providers are University of California at Berkeley and Cornell University. Sun Microsystems is a technology partner. A diverse group of twenty art, history, and general museums, as well as original materials collecting institutions, will participate in organizing the MDLC, with a planned organizing phase start in late Spring 1998. Further information about the MDLC can be found at <http://www.museumlicensing.org/>.

This session provides an update on the most recent activities and future plans of the Internet2 Project, including organizational, engineering, and applications efforts. In addition, you will hear an overview of the application demonstrations taking plac e at Highway 1 (601 Pennsylvania Avenue) on 15 and 16 April, to which all CNI attendees are invited.

Metadata in real time will deal with creating and using EAD to index a multimedia database. Access will include links to multimedia objects and links to digital transcript databases for key word access to text, audio and video files.