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Dear all, I am pleased to report that the DLF will be developing studies that review and recommend strategies for developing sustainable and scaleable digital library collections. Three studies have been commissioned so far: one focusing on third party commercial content (e-journals, A&I services, etc); one on collections comprising digital surrogates sourced in whole or in part from the library's own holdings; and one on third-party public domain Internet content (for more information see http://www.clir.org/diglib/collections/collstrat.htm The studies reflect our growing concern with the long-term support and other costs associated with decisions to develop, acquire, or acquire access to digital information resources and will be informed in large measure by the guidelines that are being developed within libraries as they think about reducing such costs or at least making them more predictable. A key challenge will be to capture that thinking as it develops and it is here that I hope you can help. In particular, I am looking for any guidelines, checklists, etc. that you have developed (however informally) to assist bibliograpohers, curators, and others who have responsibility for any (or any part of): 1) planning digitization projects from selection through to implementation 2) identfy, evaluating, procuring, cataloguing, mounting, and maintaining, and supporting use of third-party commercial electronic content 3) identifying, evaluating, cataloguing, maintaining and supporting use of third-party public domain Internet content If you have such guidelines and are willing to share them, I would be grateful if you would inform me by emailing [log in to unmask] I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Dan Daniel Greenstein Director, Digital Library Federation 1755 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 500 Washington DC 20036 ph: (202) 939-4762 fax: (202) 939-4765