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Dear all: The program for this week's upcoming DLF Forum in San Diego is now available on the forum website http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2005/ in a variety of versions for your ease of use: 1) The web versions exist in both short (at-a-glance) and full versions (the latter containing speaker biographies and abstracts), and we will have wireless access at the event so you can use them from a laptop; 2) there is a "print-friendly" PDF version, although there is no need to print it out if you are attending the Forum, as printed copies will be handed out at registration; 3) for those of you with PDAs, there are both Palm Pilot (pdb) and Microsoft Reader (lit) files available. The program is as strong as ever, with a keynote from Ed Ayers kicking off several days of the latest developments in web services, METS, OAI, digital preservation, user services, faculty collaborations, LOCKSS, institutional repositories, Aquifer, grid initiatives, NDIIPP, digital library education, and more. A variety of formal project, grant, and initiatives meetings cluster around the event, making good use of the fact that so many of us are gathered in one place, and there is a particularly timely DLF Developers' Forum on Friday afternoon that considers "Linking Public Search Engines to Library Content" (congratulations to MacKenzie Smith and Peter Brantley for pulling this together). As presentations are given they will be posted on the website, during the event. This should, we hope, be a timely service for those of you who are not attending, or for those at the event in one session who wish they could be in the other parallel-track session too. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you later in the week in San Diego. Best wishes, David David Seaman Executive Director, Digital Library Federation Council on Library and Information Resources 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/