The Yale University Library, funded by a grant from the CLIR (Council on Library & Information Resources), created in 1997 the LIBLICENSE web site, a resource for librarians, educators, and information providers. The site, which is rich in definitions, s ample contracts, numerous links, and bibliography, is intended to inform and educate those who create or use such licenses, generally novices to this area. The LIBLICENSE project includes a discussion list, <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>, which enriches the site through dialog between players. Phase II of the LIBLICENSE Project, also funded by CLIR, is being developed in 1998. It involves the creation of an unloadable "generic" educational site license for electronic content. Users of DOS/NT systems will be able to unload this software off the WWW and create their own licenses to present either to customers or to suppliers. Currently, this software is in pre-beta mode and feedback will be welcomed.

The purpose of this briefing session is to describe Phases I & II of the LIBLICENSE project and to seek input about current offerings and future developments of interest to both the CLIR and libraries or publishers.

The University of Southern California libraries and information technology division has recently developed a new organizational model for converged services. In this session, the goals of the reorganization will be discussed, the plans for restructuring will be described, and there will be a discussion of the progress that is being made.

The session will be used to solicit views of participants on what constitutes information technology literacy. These views will be used to inform the deliberations of the CSTB/NRC's Committee on Information Technology Literacy.

WorldLinQ is an innovative multilingual Web based Internet information system, developed by Queens Borough Public Library with the aid of a grant from AT&T. It is the goal of WorldLinQ to provide free of charge electronic multilingual information resourc es to the Library's customers, as well as the Internet community at large. WorldLinQ will include a multilingual catalog of materials owned by the library in vernacular script.

As a community, our investments in digital library initiatives reflect the centrality of those efforts and the extent to which we value the resources. Many current efforts sit on the margins, funded primarily by grants and other short-term funding, and focused primarily on projects rather than infrastructure activities.

The University of Michigan's project activity--through its collaborative Digital Library Initiatives program (DLI)-- has matured into an integral component of campus library and information technology services. DLI is a jointly supported program, focusing on building a coherent and coordinated campus networked information environment through projects, but also through development of campus infrastructure, services and capabilities. Recently, the DLI established the Digital Library Production Services (DLPS) with substantial commitments from the University Library, the University's Information Technology Division, the School of Information, and the Media Union. With staffing from the partner organizations, the DLPS has moved the various project-oriented efforts to a general architecture for digital resources. The roughly 18FTE have a wide range of responsibilities including data loading, automated large-scale OCR operation, interface development and assessment, content specialization, and domain-based programming (e.g., building systems for delivery of continuous tone images).

The CNI briefing will focus on project examples enabled by this infrastructure, including:

• PEAK: A research project that builds on an established mechanism for delivering large quantities of page-image based journal literature
• Making of America: A vast collection of historical US publications that merges preservation and access models, making less significant the question of approaches (i.e., text encoding or page image?), and bringing more pressure to bear on ensuring the long-term viability of the material.
• Image Services: "Federating" the various disjoint efforts on campus in one image access system, Image Services has articulated a model of access that can accommodate approaches ranging from "exhibits" to intensive analysis with the same body of material, instantiated once and with a single program managing all methods.

The presentation will discuss goals, methods and current progress of the Five Colleges Archives Digital Access Project, a three-year pilot project funded by the Mellon Foundation and now in its second year. The project is making accessible on the Web (URL: <http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/>) significant archival and manuscript collections relating to women's history, particularly women's education. The project expects to digitize about 25,000 items. The Five Colleges consortium of western Massachusetts (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) features institutional diversity but also enjoys a tradition of close cooperation. The briefing will include a discussion of the way the project was cooperatively conceived and planned, criter ia for selection of content, archival access issues, and methods for digitization and presentation.

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 institution-wide information access.

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is building a library of multimedia documentation of works of art for educational licensing. In 1998/99, the Library will be available from the Research Libraries Group to a selected group of universities which have agreed to undertake research using its contents. In addition, this winter OCLC R&D Division has been conducting research with the AMICO Library to explore the full expression of Dublin Core metadata and relations in RDF. These research projects range fro m user needs and access issues, to image quality and systems architecture, but each addresses in some way the question of what characteristics of the Library constitute value to whom and under what circumstances.

This session will report on R&D plans at several universities and on the achievements of the first major R&D project devoted to the expression, in XML/RDF of a fully qualified Dublin Core compliant metadata record for the images and associated multimedia files in the library.