They consulted collections mounted by the University of Louisville
(http://digital.library.louisville.edu/), Ball State University
(http://libx.bsu.edu/), University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(http://digital.library.unlv.edu/), and the University of California, San Diego(http://ceo.ucsd.edu/index.html) to facilitate decision making about the organization and display of online oral history materials. The LSU Libraries serves all digital library materials via the Louisiana Digital Library, which was developed at the start of this decade by LSU Libraries and the LOUIS Library Consortium. LOUIS staff maintains the LDL for the nineteen participating institutions, including historical societies, libraries and museums. Individual institutions add content to the LDL and all materials are available for public use. The digital library is powered by CONTENTdm software and hosted by OCLC. LOUIS staff assists LDL institutions with customization of the software. LSU Libraries Special Collections maintains over 35 collections in the LDL.