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Presents the author's keynote speech at the 1999 ACM Digital Libraries conference held in Berkeley, California. Inclusion of an outlook for digital library research and development; Historical information on the sense of purpose of academic and research libraries in the United States; Communities shaping the digital library faith; Agenda set by the computer science community.

The article presents a calendar of events of interest to botanical librarians from March to June 2002. The Digital Library and E-Publishing for Science and Technology conference will be held on March 3-8. The 34th annual meeting of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries will be held in San Francisco, California on April 8-13. The International Congress of Information will hold a conference in Havana, Cuba.

Presents information on topics discussed at the Internet Librarian conference in Pasadena, California from November 6 to 8, 2002. Damages sought by writers for past uncontracted use of their work in database; Topics on electronic learning; Desirability of digitizing the complete holdings of the Library of Congress.

Presents information on the 1998 Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL) conference, held April 22-24 in Santa Barbara, California. Introduction of information systems and tools by the national digital library projects; Details on the California Digital Library (CDL); Topics discussed at the conference; What the CDL offers; Details on the conference.