1. The job position for the senior program officer for DLF was posted in December, along with a brief description of  DLF as a program within CLIR. These documents are accessible at: http://www.clir.org/news/officerdlf.html

At present, we have over 20 applicants in the pool.

2. A search committee will be convened in the first half of February, composed of CLIR staff and members of the Transition Committee. Jim Neal and Geneva Henry have graciously agreed to represent the Transition Committee for this search. It is hoped that a program officer will be on board later in the spring.

3. DLF/CLIR co-sponsored an important meeting at Stanford in December that focused on ways and means to build more far reaching collaborative projects among research university libraries and national libraries overseas. This unusual combination of interests and perspectives appears to have great merit; a report from the conference is forthcoming.

4. The first joint DLF/CLIR publication will be arriving this spring. It is a three part report, with chapters that include the feasibility of an all digital research library; the true costs of keeping and preserving a printed book versus a digital surrogate; and a  report from a recent meeting of scholars on the strengths and challenges of large scale digital text databases as a source for advanced research in the humanities.

5. A nationally prominent, standing advisory board for DLF/CLIR is being pursued. This board will assist us in building upon DLF's considerable strengths while looking ahead to new avenues of program development.

6. The Fall 2009 DLF Forum was a success, with many thoughtful presentations and discussions. A synopsis of that meeting and related documents can be found at:  http://eric.clst.org/CLIR/FallForumFeedback

7. Because of the focus on the DLF search, brevity of time, and the importance of retaining as much DLF capital as possible for the incoming program officer, the next Forum will be held in the fall of 2010. Hewlett Packard has offered to host the fall 2010 Forum in Silicon Valley, also offering to work to get other local computer corporations and interested companies to attend.