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Two new reports are now available from the DLF website. 1. Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment (December 2001). A report by William S. Brockman, Laura Neumann, Carole L. Palmer, Tonyia J. Tidline http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html 2. Submission Information Package (SIP) Specification Version 1.0 DRAFT — December 19, 2001 (December 2001). A draft proposal developed by Harvard University Library as part of its Mellon e-journal archiving project. http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf ************ Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html). As the scholarly information environment changes, so do the needs, expectations, and behaviors of users. Assessing and responding to those changes is essential for the academic library so that it may continue in support of the scholarly mission. The authors of this report have formally examined how humanities scholars conduct and collate their research. The study was based on a small sample of scholars; nonetheless, the results are powerfully suggestive of ways in which academic libraries can adapt to and develop in a rapidly changing environment. In particular, the findings emphasize how important it is for libraries to chart their evolutionary course in close consultation with scholarly user communities. This study results from the fruitful cross-fertilization between the scholar concerned with aspects of information science and the librarian concerned with delivering operational information services. Submission Information Package (SIP) Specification Version 1.0 DRAFT — December 19, 2001 http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf The purpose of the Harvard University E-Journal Archive is to preserve the significant intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which that content was originally delivered in order to assure that this content will be available to the scholarly community for the indefinite future. Functionally, the archive is designed to render text and still images and other formats as practical with no significant loss in intellectual content. The archive reserves the right to freely manipulate the internal format of the manifestation over time as long as the plain meaning of the intellectual content is preserved. The framework for discussing the architecture and operation of the archive is provided by the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. Under the OAIS model, material from a content provider is transmitted to the archive in a form called a Submission Information Package (SIP). The format of the SIP acceptable to the Harvard archive is described normatively by this specification.