IP: FEDERAL GOV'T TO SPEND $50-MILLION ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES --

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

The U.S. government plans to spend $50 million over four or five years as
part of its new Digital Library 2 project.  The original Digital Library
project started in 1994 with about half that amount of funding.  The leader
of the University of Illinois' digital library project notes that online
technology is developing so rapidly, that proposals will have to "sound
very grand and flaky" in order not to become obsolete before the five years
is up.  Federal agencies involved in the Digital Library 2 project include
the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, the Library of Congress, NASA, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, and the National Library of Medicine.  (Chronicle of Higher
Education 27 Feb 98)




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