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Current Issues

Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative
by Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

The Metadata Harvesting Initiative of the Mellon Foundation
by Donald J. Waters, Program Officer, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

SPARC

Whither Competition?
by Richard K. Johnson, Enterprise Director, SPARC

SPARC Europe Launches

Federal Relations

Libraries and the Tasini Case

Diversity

ARL Welcomes the 2001–02 Leadership and Career Development Program Participants

ARL Activities

ARL, CARL Assess the Digital Future

Université de Montréal Joins ARL

The Status & Future of Special Collections

New Media Relations Handbook Available