Digital library partnerships: The issues and challenges

This session established a global overview on digital libraries and partnerships. The focus then centered on a corporate research and development initiative and a library/public agency collaboration, In both cases the scope and background of the projects were outlined and such issues as implementation and ongoing support were discussed. The Institute for Scientific Information and Thomas Jefferson University concentrated on ISI's Electronic Library Project which has been designed to test and validate electronic access to bibliographic data and images of a large corpus of scholarly journal literature. The Cornell Mann Library/USDA collaboration, which makes available via the Internet nearly 300 USDA electronic publications, will discuss the goals and challenges of implementing this new service.