Digital Library Federation: Reorganizing, Refocusing, and Moving Towards
Concrete Collaboration 

Daniel Greenstein, Director, Digital Library Federation


The Digital Library Federation (DLF)
(http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm)  is currently in the process
of reorganizing and refocussing.  The DLF was founded in 1995 to establish
the conditions for creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a
distributed collection of digital materials accessible to scholars,
students, and a wider public. The Federation is a leadership organization
operating under the umbrella of the Council on Library and Information
Resources. It is composed of participants who manage and operate digital
libraries.

This session will provide an overview of the DLF's initiatives and plans
for the future.  There will be time for focussed discussion about the
issues that concern participants in relation to data and other
initiatives; and, how the organization and its partners can move beyond
discussion to concrete collaboration.