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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hello Jill, I am the architecture branch librarian at Auburn University in Alabama, and I have been developing long term goals for my personal research. These goals involve digital images and the future of library instruction. We have an image database up in the architecure library that replaces the traditional slide light case, and that is prepared for students to use before tests. It has grown in popularity so much that I am requesting additonal staff to maintain it. I am also going to Ireland this summer, taking photographs of architectural details for 3 different projects, and mounting instruction sites in the fall using these images. These web sites will include images, captions, bibliographies and other library and on-line resources. The sites will be supported by posters and displays to encour interest. I have asked for release time to develop these projects, as well as materials support. I have not received an answer from the research committee yet. I can ask for this as a part of my tenure track position requirement to do research and creative projects, a loophole for fun research and time consuming projects. I am hoping to develop a series of these, and to encourage professors to do the same with their research. The library server can host things for a while, and we have a new electronic reserve software we are testing this summer that could support these projects. Server space becomes an issue fast in these cases. Several of us here are developing a proposal for the ACRL conference in April, where we present similar projects and discuss the future of instruction screens and their possibilities. I am glad to hear there are others out there pursuing this topic.