1) DLF FORUM NEWS HOTEL If you have not yet booked your hotel rooms for the DLF Spring Forum, please note that you need to do it right away -- the deadline for the conference rate is tomorrow (Tuesday March 16th). For reservations call 800-445-6563. PROGRAM A draft program is now available from the Forum homepage at http://www.diglib.org/forums/Spring2004/ -- there is still some layout work to be done on it but please send any corrections or additions to me as soon as possible. It looks like a great line-up. FELLOWS Congratulations to this Forum's recipients of the 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 ********************************** 2) DLF STAFF NEWS I'm delighted and relieved to be able to announce the following: Amy Harbur has just joined the Digital Library Federation as a Program Associate. Amy has worked at the Council on Library and Information Resources as an intern since 2002 and as a Program Associate since 2003, where she was involved in several projects including the Bill & Melinda Gates Access to Learning Award and the Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in the Humanities in Original Sources. She obtained her M.L.I.S. degree from the Catholic University of America in May 2003. Once we have found a new Admin Assistant we'll be back up to full strength. Best, 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/