Digital Library Initiative

Digital Library Initiative

A project to research digital libraries which aims to providereal collections to real users (high school students,University researchers and students, users in publiclibraries). The project is sponsored jointly by three USfederal funding agencies, led by the National ScienceFoundation.

The University of Michigan, one of the six sites selected in1994 to collaborate, will provide collections on earth andspace sciences. The project, known there as the University ofMichigan Digital Library Project (UMDL), is a large,multi-year project headed by Daniel Atkins, Dean of the Schoolof Information and Library Studies.

UMDL.