D-Lib Magazine:  The Magazine of the Digital Library Forum

In late July, the Digital Library Forum announced D-Lib Magazine, an
online magazine, which offers a broad range of technical and
professional users opportunities to browse, access, and comment on
current work in digital library research, advanced development, and
implementation.  The magazine has been created by the Corporation for
National Research Initiatives (CNRI) on behalf of the Information
Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) task group of the
High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program.

The purpose of D-Lib Magazine is to nurture and facilitate
communication among the many agencies, organizations, institutions,
and individuals participating or interested in digital library
research and its eventual application.  The magazine disseminates
descriptions of current research and implementation projects and
provides for interaction with the community through announcements and
communications to the editor.  One section of the magazine is devoted
to pointers, which are used throughout research stories and briefings
as another means of furthering interaction among users and
disseminating important information.

The magazine is itself an experiment in electronic publishing.  The
Forum plans no - and proposes no - print analogue, and the editors
will be most intrigued by substantive articles that take advantage of
the power of hypermedia while retaining the strengths of traditional
print publishing.  In addition, D-Lib Magazine will be used as a
testbed for new methods of electronic publishing and techniques of
digital librarianship.  So these experiments will not prove a barrier
to users with slow network connections or less than the latest
technologies, the magazine will be issued in standard and advanced
versions.

D-Lib Magazine can be found at 
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/home/dlib.html.

Editor:  Amy Friedlander
Email address:  dlib@cnri.reston.va.us


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ARL 182
A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions
Association of Research Libraries
October 1995