This panel will review the results of the DLI-2 competition and discuss what kinds of proposals were seen and, more important, what kinds were not seen enough. We will talk about what additional areas of research are most important for carrying this work forward. Other new solicitations include efforts on multilingual information management and international digital libraries. The audience is encouraged to make suggestions about new information-technology initiatives that NSF might start in the next fiscal year.

The Higher Education Funding Council in the UK has funded a project through the Joint Information Systems Committee called HERON (Higher Education Resources on Demand) in order to simplify copyright permission and facilitate access to teaching materials on electronic reserve in academic libraries, copyright cleared printed course packs in campus bookshops and eventually electronic course packs for use by students.

The service is formally launched in May 1999 and the presenters will be able to give an account from various perspectives as to how the project has progressed (it started 1 August 1998) and where it might go internationally.

One of the most controversial and timely topics facing research universities today is the ownership and control of the scholarly materials created by faculty - particularly those created in connection with Web-based courses. Many campuses across the country have either recently revised their policies or are in the process of studying this issue. This project briefing will introduce preliminary results from a project conducted on behalf of the Association of Research Libraries and the University of Maryland. An interactive format will be used to identify issues that are influencing policy development, summarize a variety of policy models, and provide resources for further study. More information is available from the project's Web site <http://www.umd.edu/copyown/>.

This session will report on two funded projects that have extended assessment techniques of websites in general, and Federal websites in particular. The first study used a multimethod approach which was tested on an assessment of the U.S. Department of Education websites and based on the following approaches:

• technical/log analysis
• user based assessment and usability testing
• management and organizational assessment
• policy analysis.

The integration of these four approaches provided a very useful overall perspective on the performance and impact of the website.

The second study, funded in part by the U.S. General Services Administration is developing a range of performance measures to assess the degree to which Federal websites promote public access and use.

The various methods and performance measures that are being tested and refined as a result of these two studies have a wide degree of applicability to other website evaluation efforts in other contexts. Strengths and limitations of the various methods and performance measures will be discussed with recommendations for "next steps" in website assessment.

This session will report on three recent multi-institution digital image distribution projects: a study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, one university's experience in participating in the AMICO testbed, and a planned Digital Library Federation project to build a shared repository for public domain images.

Howard Besser will present findings from the Mellon-funded study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project--The Cost Of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/>. He will discuss the findings of a series of focus groups the Mellon project staff held with art historians and studio teachers on their perspectives on teaching with digital images.

Jeff Huestis will discuss his university's experience as a participant in the Art Museum Image Consortium testbed. Washington University's participation in the testbed has centered around the use of AMICO images in several undergraduate courses. To evaluate the project's impact, a variety of data gathering techniques were used, including questionnaires, class evaluations, and focus groups. Bringing the AMICO resource into the classroom required faculty and student training in digital imaging, web design and such computer basics as file transfer and e-mail attachments. Orientation was also provided to intellectual property considerations related to campus computing policies, copyright, and the terms of the AMICO contract.

Max Marmor will report on the "Image Exchange," an initiative undertaken by a diverse group of librarians, visual resources curators, and faculty members to build a shared repository for public domain images illustrating works from major art and architectural history textbooks. The Digital Library Federation will support this project by creating and supporting the repository architecture. DLF is also interested in seeking partners to develop tools for the use of images in teaching and learning.

Colleges and universities should be developing the institutional capacity to evolve a coherent and manageable academic presence on the world wide web - a presence that strategically employs the web as a medium to amplify learning and learning communities among institutional constituencies. Instead, many institutions are pressing forward without regard for overall institutional coherence and related issues such as scalability, manageability, and long-term affordability. Random acts of progress are often the result. This session will discuss the issues involved and demonstrate capacity-building uses of flexible, easy-to-use online resources and collaboration tools designed to enhance academic community and effectiveness, both within on-campus communities and within extended learning communities beyond traditional campus boundaries.

The Digital Scriptorium at Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library is completing an online database of images of historic advertisements from 1915 through 1955. Assuming that items after 1920 were most likely not in the public domain, we were faced with the task of copyright clearance in order to include them in our Internet database. This presentation will address some of the issues and problems we encountered and how we resolved them.

Colorado, like many states, has made significant strides in building the digital library. Through a variety of collaborative initiatives, the people of Colorado have access to library OPACS, online indexing services, electronic journals, and full text document delivery. To complete the picture of the digital library, access to the unique resources and special collections, held by a variety of library and non-library organizations, was needed. To provide the people of Colorado with the fullest possible access to these resources, a collaborative initiative involving libraries, museums, archives and historical societies was developed this fall using LSTA funding.

The project has focused on building the collaborative, establishing standards and guidelines for digitization, establishing a website to collocate the digital resources, and identifying next steps. Working with representatives of these organizations, we have found that such a diverse collaborative raises new issues, calls attention to new user communities and requires new ways to provide access to digitized resources.