Since 1995, the Library of Virginia’s Digital Library Program (DLP) has created digital images of more than 700,000 original document pages, 1,100 maps, 36,000 photographs, and 1.6 million catalog card images, and has created 32 bibliographic databases with more than 330,000 MARC records, 50 electronic card indexes, and numerous electronic finding aids. The bulk of the DLP’s funding comes from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) federal program, but in 1997 the Library received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to catalog and digitize the Virginia Historical Inventory Project (VHI). After an introduction to the DLP and VHI, this article will discuss the costs and benefits of creating the online version and will compare the one‐time development cost and subsequent delivery of the digital resource to the long‐term costs and benefits of providing access to these materials via traditional means.

Explains the development of a project by the Library of Virginia to provide universal Internet access to the state‘s vast treasury of historical documents, records, finding aids and photographs through the process of digitization. Considers selection criteria, the HTML gateway, catalogues and databases, the family bible project, electronic card indexes, microfilm digitization, colonial records and newspaper‐based history. Outlines ongoing and future projects.

Digital libraries are at a point in their progression where many have been well established. Furthermore, groups in the field have begun to develop best practices in areas such as digitization and metadata architecture. However, other areas have been less discussed, namely the organizational and management issues that digital libraries must address.These issues include staffing, collaboration among departments or institutions, budgeting, and the strategies that digital libraries use to ensure longterm sustainability for projects. Panelists in this session will discuss the strategies that they have used to meet the organizational and management needs of their digital library projects.Founded in 1823, the Library of Virginia (LVA) is the archival repository for state and local records and the reference library for state government. Since 1995, the Digital Library Program (DLP) is an internationally recognized effort to preserve, digitize, and provide access to significant archival and library collections. The project has digitized one million original document pages, maps, and photographs, and created forty (40) searchable databases consisting of 700,000 records and many additional electronic finding aids. This presentation will discuss the project management techniques that have evolved over time, including product conception and design, workflow development, allocation of personnel and technical resources, vendor relations, adherence to standards, quality control, costhenefit analysis, marketing, public relations and customer support, usage analysis, and persistence.DSpace, jointly developed by MIT Libraries and the Hewlett-Packard Company, is a cross-disciplinary digital repository intended to capture, distribute and preserve the digital products created by MIT's researchers. The goal of developing an institutionally-based repository brings with it a set of organizational and policy issues not usually encountered by the more common discipline-based digital repositories. A university spans many disciplines, each of which is represented by at least one organizational unit within the university's administrative structure. This presentation will address the project's management of policy issues that have emerged during both the design stage and the beta-testing stage with early adopters. Issues to be discussed include the transition from a development project to implementation, policies surrounding collection content, ownership and responsibility, and long term archival and preservation policies.

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