Project Briefings:
An Alphabetical List by Title

A Schedule is also available

ALADIN Research Commons: A Consortial Institutional Repository
Joan Cheverie, Georgetown University
Claire T. Dygert, American University
Bruce Hulse, Washington Research Library Consortium

Archiving and Preserving the Web: Future Directions and Applications
Merrilee Proffitt, RLG, Inc.
Kristine Hanna, Internet Archive
Dan Avery, Internet Archive

AstroCat: A Web-based Interactive Astronomical Catalog
Stefan Dreizler, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Ralf Stockmann, Goettingen State and University Library

Building a Digital Library of the Middle East: Report from a Workshop Held in Alexandria, Egypt, January 15-17, 2006
Stephen Griffin, National Science Foundation
Joan K. Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information
Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Donald J. Waters, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Building an Interdisciplinary Research Program in an Academic Library
D. Scott Brandt, Purdue University
James Mullins, Purdue University

Circle of Service: The Commons at the University of Tennessee
Barbara I. Dewey, University of Tennessee
Julie K. Little, University of Tennessee

Collaborations in Shibboleth and Federation Futures
Kenneth J. Klingenstein, University of Colorado, Boulder

Designing Digital Preservation Repository Services at Stanford: Practical Theory for Practical Services
Keith Johnson, Stanford University

Embracing the (De)contextualization of Digital Artifacts
Barbara Taranto, The New York Public Library

Gnosh: Social Metasearching in the Liberal Arts
Bryan Alexander, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
Michael Richwalsky, NITLE, Allegheny College

IMLS Update: Programs, Initiatives, Projects
Martha Crawley, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Dan Lukash, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Barbara G. Smith, Institute of Museum and Library Services

Implementing Institutional Repositories
Ronald Jantz, Rutgers University
Nicholas Fischio, Case Western Reserve University
Nathan Lambert, Case Western Reserve University

In-House Digitization: The National Digital Newspaper Program at the University of Kentucky
Eric Weig, University of Kentucky
J. Wendel Cox, University of Kentucky

Institutional Repositories and the Need for “Value-added” Services: Current Research and Lessons Learned
Susan Gibbons, University of Rochester
Tyler O. Walters, Georgia Institute of Technology

Journal Use Reports: Networking Resources for More Informational Power
Doug Newman, Thomson Scientific
James Mouw, University of Chicago

Key Standards Updates
Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
Robert Sanderson, University of Liverpool
Brian Lavoie, OCLC, Inc.
Rebecca S. Guenther, Library of Congress
Robin L. Dale, RLG, Inc.

Letting Faculty Drive the Digital Program
Tom Ruthven, University of Miami

The Library of Congress/National Science Foundation Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation Research Program (Digarch): Results and Prospects
William LeFurgy, Library of Congress

The Melvyl Recommender Project: Early Results and Open Questions
Colleen Whitney, California Digital Library
Peter Brantley, California Digital Library

MIT's SIMILE Project: Demonstrating Practical Value of Semantic Web Technologies for Digital Libraries
MacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion: An Open Discussion
David Laurence, Modern Language Association
David Nicholls, Modern Language Association

NARA's Electronic Records Archives Initiative
Fynnette Eaton, National Archives and Records Administration

"Network Neutrality" Issues for Higher Education and the Internet
Steve Worona, EDUCAUSE
Gary Bachula, Internet2
Earl Comstock, COMPTEL
Richard Greenfield, University of Alaska

NLM Long Range Plan for the 21st Century: A First-Look Preliminary Report
Elliot R. Siegel, National Library of Medicine

Open Source Tools and Metasearch Findings of the Emory MetaCombine Project
Martin Halbert, Emory University

The Orphan Works Report
Marybeth Peters, U.S. Copyright Office
Jule L. Sigall, U.S. Copyright Office

Pathway to the Future: Library Bibliographic Services for the 21st Century
Terry Ryan, University of California, Los Angeles
Luc Declerck, University of California, San Diego

The Rat is Never Wrong: An Introduction to the Methods of User-Centered Design
Nancy Fried Foster, University of Rochester
Michael Roy, Wesleyan University

Results from a Technology Analysis of Repositories and Services
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University

Sakai: From Grant to Deployment to Global Community in 24 Months
Bradley Wheeler, Indiana University

Sharing Learning and Teaching Materials: Some JISC-Funded Collaborative Projects
Susan Eales, JISC

Shibboleth for Real
Thomas C. Wilson, University of Maryland
David Kennedy, University of Maryland
Oren Beit-Arie, Ex Libris Group
James Mouw, University of Chicago

The Solution to the Orphan Works Problem: Safe Legal Adoption or Risky Foster Parenting?
Denise Troll Covey, Carnegie Mellon

Standardized Licence Expression: Clarity, Control and Fair Use
Sharon Farb, University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher M. McKenzie, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Daviess Menefee, Elsevier
Alicia Wise, Publishers Licensing Society

Two Years of the ARROW Project: A Progress Report on Where We Are, and How We Got Here
David Groenewegen, Monash University
Neil Dickson, Monash University

The UK National Centre for Text Mining: Activities and Plans
Robert Sanderson, University of Liverpool

A Very Large Scale Library for the History of the Web
William Y. Arms, Cornell University

Work of the Section 108 Study Group
Laura N. Gasaway, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill