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Discusses the failures and successes of the Digital Libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign initiative, which was dicussed at the 35th Annual Clinic of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) held in March 1998. An issue the university had to resolve before requiring submission of electronic theses or dissertations (EDT); The benefits of a digital library, according to Ed Fox; The production of a testbed to gain user input on the value of the system; Perspectives on the project.

Presents an interview with Marianna Tax Choldin, director of the University of Illinois' C. Walter and Gerda B. Mortenson Center for International Library Programs. How the Mortenson gifts were aimed at creating relations among the world's librarians; Choldin's work with the Soros Foundation to establish library support in Budapest; Training for librarians in Costa Rica and eastern Europe; Choldin's impressions of foreign libraries.