Anyone reading the IMLS 2004 National Leadership Grants For Libraries announcement yesterday--http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/stategrants0904nlg.htm --would have noticed that DLF institutions were well-represented (UC Berkeley; Emory; Indiana; Cornell; Tennessee; Rice), and I'm delighted to announce that the DLF as an organization is also a recipient of what is (I think) our first competitive federal grant: ****************************************************** Digital Library Federation - Washington, DC - $292,456 2004 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration The Digital Library Federation (DLF), in partnership with Emory University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan, will research, design, and prototype a "second generation" OAI finding system, capitalizing on the lessons learned from the first wave of OAI harvesting and using as its raw material collections drawn from across the DLF membership. The aim is to foster better teaching and scholarship through easier, more relevant discovery of digital resources, and enhance libraries' ability to build more responsive local services on top of a distributed metadata platform. ****************************************************** My thanks to colleagues at Emory, Illinois, Michigan, and CLIR for scrambling at short notice to compile the technical, descriptive, and financial information that made up this successful application, and to all those DLF institutions who submitted letters of support. David David Seaman Executive Director, Digital Library Federation 1755 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20036 tel: 202-939-4762 fax: 202-939-4765 e-mail: [log in to unmask] web: http://www.diglib.org/