These are awards made under the NSF/DARPA/NASA
          RFP, the so called Digital Library Initiative
          that was publicized late last fall and early
          winter ......

>   folks:  I am forwarding the attached message as it was forwarded to me.
>   I do not have any further information, but I thought you all might be
>   interested. -- Mitch
>
>   ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>   Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 22:53:14 -0700 (PDT)
>   From: Harriet Talan <htalan@mercury>
>   To: Talan Harriet <htalan@sfsu.edu>, Cherny Robert <cherny@sfsu.edu>,
>       Linda Dobb <ldobb@mercury>, Turitz Mitch <turitz@mercury>
>   Subject: Virtual us
>
>
>   VIRTUAL LIBRARIES GET A BOOST FROM FEDS
>   The federal government has pledged $24 million toward digitizing materials
>   in university libraries. The four-year grants will go to Carnegie Mellon,
>   Stanford, UC at Berkeley, UC at San Francisco, University of Illinois, and
>   University of Michigan. The project marks the largest commitment to date to
>   constructing "virtual libraries" on the Internet. (Chronicle of Higher
>   Education 10/5/94 A26)
>