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 * Section 13. Group 3.**


 * __Trend Name:__** Digital Library Federation (DLF)


 * __Basic Summary of Trend:__** The DLF identifies, documents, endorses, and promotes adoption of standards and best practices that support the effective acquisition, interchange, persistence, and assessment of digital library collections and services. The DLF has partners and allies in about 36 libraries and universities around the nation. In a digital library, how information is made, assembled into collections, and presented online affects whether, to what extent, and how it can be used. In this vitally important area the DLF is sponsoring initiatives that will help libraries:
 * build better, more useful, and more useable online collections and services;
 * gather and analyze information that reveal how and why library use is changing;
 * build user support services that are effective and appropriate in evolving online library environments.


 * __Key Manifestations:__** The digital library environment is evolving rapidly and libraries provide digital collections and services to their communities. Digital libraries or collections are becoming increasingly popular due to its' effectiveness to provide information better. It's readily available, easy to access, better preserved, and you can find it all in one place. Several colleges have digital library databases. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is a major ally with the DLF.


 * __Key Personnel:__** The DLF operates through a professional director with a small staff and a Board of Trustees on which each member institution is represented. Drawing on its members and others in the scholarly, library, and computing communities, the DLF brings together experts needed for each DLF initiative, and awards Distinguished Fellowships for special projects. The Council on Library and Information Resources houses the staff, provides administrative support, and collaborates on publications. Funding comes from members and grants. There are at least 16 key members of this organization.Many are directors, deans and presidents of libraries from different Ivy League universities, including Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell. Two of the members are: Elaine Sloan, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian Columbia University, and Scott Bennett, University Librarian, Yale University.


 * __Why/How a trend?__** The DLF is flexible as a catalyst for experiment and change. It is a trend because technology these days is common. Computers are used for the most basic of tasks. This organization helps connect people to books and articles, and literature in general while keeping up with the times.

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 * Links: http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/2005/07/libraries12.html