A project to research digital libraries which aims to provide
real collections to real users (high school students,
University researchers and students, users in public
libraries). The project is sponsored jointly by three US
federal funding agencies, led by the National Science
Foundation.
1994 to collaborate, will provide collections on earth and
space sciences. The project, known there as the University of
Michigan Digital Library Project (UMDL), is a large,
multi-year project headed by Daniel Atkins, Dean of the School
of Information and Library Studies.
(1995-02-23)