Institutional Repositories

Innovative Partnerships

OAI Metadata Harvesting

Going Beyond the Card Catalog

Mining the Catalog to Create New Services

Where Things Stand

The “Golden Age” of Digital Libraries

• Now seeing a critical mass of:• Infrastructure• Technologies• Standards and protocols

• That will enable:• Wide and deep collaborations• Use of common “building blocks” to provide

sophisticated services• All to provide library services as if users

mattered… because they do!