DLI-2: Creating the Digital Music Library: Final Report to the National Science Foundation

Indiana University’s Variations2 Digital Music Library project focused on three chief areas of research and development: system architecture, including content representation and metadata standards; component-based application architecture; and network services. We tested and evaluated commercial technologies, primarily for multimedia and storage management; developed custom software solutions for the needs of the music library community; integrated commercial and custom software products; and tested and evaluated prototype systems for music instruction and library services, locally at Indiana University, and at a number of satellite sites, in the U.S. and overseas. This document is the project's final report to the National Science Foundation.This work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation under award no. 9909068, as part of the DLI-2 initiative

The Transition to an Electric Journal Collection: Measuring the Operational and Economic Implications

The overall objective of this study is to evaluate the economic implications of converting the entire current journal collection of a university library to an all digital format. This is an applied research project, the results of which will be useful to those who fund and manage digital library collections as well as other library staff and persons involved in training the library workforce of the future