This article focuses on the digital library project of the University of California-Berkeley as of April 1995. People must abandon the traditional notion of library so that digital libraries will succeed. The digital library will be a collection of distributed information services, producers of materials will make it available and consumers will find it and use it through automated agents. The technologies considered in this research include fully automated indexing and intelligent retrieval, database that will support digital library applications, protocol for client/server information retrieval and new paradigms of interaction. The researchers were creating prototype digital library focussed on The California Environment. This is a large collection of diverse kinds of data about the environment. The library will contain all the environment technical reports for the state of California, supporting computer models, county general plans, aerial and ground photography, maps, videos and databases of the California biota. The researchers intends to make this library a national resource and that the prototype they created will serve as such for a full-scale deployment in the state of California's CERES production systems.