1. Collaborating and Sharing Digitally First IT Team Visit
Win Shih

2. Team Members
Shuyong Jiang, Project Principal Investigator and Team Leader; University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Sarah Shreeves, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Win Shih, University at Albany

3. Project Overview Development of Web-based resources
Promoting international standards and best practices
Identifying and establishing a registry of digital library projects
Establishing a pilot Web-based portal

4. Sites Visited Pudong New Area Library Suzhou Library
Suzhou University Libraries
Northeastern Normal University Libraries
Yi-Tong (伊通) county library
Information Resource Center, American Center for Educational Exchange
National Library of China

5. Content Selected Criteria Cultural Suzhou
Special collection at Northeastern Normal University Library)

6. Cultural Suzhou

7. Cultural Suzhou
Kun opera; a local opera that is sang in tune of Kun opera; it is popular over south of Jiangsu and Beijing, Hebei, etc.
Kunqu has a soft and tender melody

8. Cultural Suzhou

9. NENU Special Collection
16 locally developed databases, including 6 full text dbs, 2 video dbs. Total size: 22 Terabytes

10. Scholarly Publications (东北相关学术论文库)
About 14,000 articles

11. Dissertations (本校学位论文库)
About 10,000 dissertations

12. Local Chronicles (东北地方志数据库)
About 30 titles

13. Photo Images (东北文献图片库)
About 5,000 photos

14. Special Collections (特藏文献数据库)

15. Issues Discussed Language barrier International standard
Sustainable business model
Further interaction and exchange
Library consortium
Physical vs. soft infrastructure

16. Thank You