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The Digital Library In parallel with the JISC work, major research libraries in the USA have collaborated within the Digital Library Federation (DLF) .The focus of the DLF has been on elucidating a “ discovery to deliver” (sometimes ‘d2d’) library business model, which is clearly related to the knowledge mediators ,MODELS and other work described. It ‘creates and promotes standards and strategies that will lead to an extensive, open, distributed digital library with coherent pathways for scholars to discover, access, and use meaningful content’(Brogan 2006). Not surprisingly, DLF has been particularly concerned with issues related to the development and exploitation of large collections. It has been particularly prominent in recent years in the development of standards-compliant repositories based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) framework and on the exploitation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)