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I have grown to really dislike the phrase "digital library." In my last job most folks referred to "The DL" when they meant the digital collection repository (NOT an IR, but a repo for digitized library collections). Some of us kept making the point that "digital library" meant not just digitized physical collections, but databases and ejournals and licensed digital images and GIS data and faculty publications and born-digital scholarship and so on. And even if we used the phrase more inclusively, it seemed silly to semantically segregate that content from the physical collections just because it was digital. There is no digital library — it's just the library. Leslie ---------- Leslie Johnston Digital Media Project Coordinator Office of Strategic Initiatives Library of Congress 202-707-2801 [log in to unmask]