1	Forum Introduction & The DLF Today David Seaman New Orleans April 19, 2004
2	DLF Staff David Seaman: Executive Director Amy Harbur: Program Associate Arvaye Davis: Administrative Associate Financial and administrative oversight, plus office space and wonderful colleagues, supplied by CLIR
3	DLF Forum Fellowships For Librarians New To The Profession Hannah Frost, Stanford University Kevin Hawkins, University of Michigan Alison Morin, Library of Congress Jacqueline Samples, North Carolina State University Jewel Ward, University of Southern California
4	DLF Spring Forum 2004 Program Committee Leslie Johnson: University of Virginia Jerome McDonough: New York University John Ober: California Digital Library David Reynolds, Johns Hopkins University Martin Halbert, Emory University Jennifer Vinopal: New York University
5	Forums Role of the Forum Layout: 2 tracks; self-introducing and self-regulating. Formal BOFs and “bar BOFs” Program includes paper abstracts and – for the first time -- brief biographies. Presentations harvested at the event Upcoming Events: Baltimore [Fall 2004] and San Diego [Spring 2005] Fall 2005: Boston? Charlottesville? RTP?
6	Guests Ex Libris; Google; University of Southampton; FCLA; National Library of Australia; Oxford University; University of Richmond; University of Göttingen; Simon Fraser University; ACLS; Bielefeld University; Monash University; FAST Search & Transfer; University of Liverpool; Louisiana State University
7	The DLF today: Membership 33 Partners / 4 Allies The British Library is our newest partner – Richard Boulderstone in attendance Strong interest from several other major non-US institutions
8	The DLF Today: Governance Clear need to manage growth to maintain agility and nimbleness Governance of the whole; steering committee and executive committee George Jurkowich [Principal, Azimuth Consultants]
9	The DLF Today: Communications DLF-announce DLF-developers DLF digicam Newsletters [Michael Pelikan, Penn State, editor] – and derived databases of content and publications. Need to re-think the reporting and production process for newsletters. [MS Office/XML] Opportunity to reflect activity back to our library directors.
10	The DLF today -- Publications Books without Pages, Pages without Ink: Publishing and Scholarship in 2020. Proceedings from a Folger Library Colloquium, November 2001. Preservation of electronic scholarly journals. Edited, with an Introduction, by Linda Cantara. Includes edited versions of seven Mellon-funded reports. Digital Library Aggregation Services. Martha L. Brogan. POD service in the making – print option more generally available for reports.
11	The DLF today: areas of activity Courseware/library interface Dale Flecker et al /Mellon funded study Management of resources E-Resource Management LibLicense METS Registry of Digital Masters Service Building OAI: “phase two” work – best practices for OAI data providers; IMLS grant applied for Web services – Ockham NSF grant
12	The DLF today: areas of activity Production Workflow Good Practices Pipelines Benchmarks and Guides TEI in Libraries Benchmarking digital reproductions of printed monographs and serials.
13	The DLF today: areas of activity Preservation Global Digital Formats Registry: Participants include DLF members plus NIST, JISC, IETF, PRO, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, and the National Library of Canada. Contacts: Stephen Abrams, Harvard, and Mackenzie Smith, MIT.
14	The DLF Today: DODL Strong support at Directors’ level for richer interdependence and sharing in pursuit of improved teaching and scholarship Finding system(s) [OAI work] Richer services (sharing content) – Scholars’ Box; American South and American West; UIUC content clustering proposal Scholars’ Advisory Group How to build in routine production both sharable metadata and sharable data?
15	Mass and Malleability Digital Promise / DOIT [www.digitalpromise.org] GPO Government Documents Digitizing Data silos/products/end-user customization/”shelve by publisher” phenomenon/innovative users need innovative content
16	Interdependence Striking willingness to work deeply together Culture of interdependence – standards; OCLC; best practices Mild impact of “not created here” Co-investments: SAKAI Excitement over massive pooling of expertise, metadata, data – international viewpoint