Digital Library Initiative

A project to research digital libraries which aims to provide

real collections to real users (high school students,

University researchers and students, users in public

libraries). The project is sponsored jointly by three US

federal funding agencies, led by the National Science

Foundation.

The University of Michigan, one of the six sites selected in

1994 to collaborate, will provide collections on earth and

space sciences. The project, known there as the University of

Michigan Digital Library Project (UMDL), is a large,

multi-year project headed by Daniel Atkins, Dean of the School

of Information and Library Studies.

UMDL .

(1995-02-23)