Current Awareness
The closet most digital libraries get to current awareness is a “what’s new” page, or a regular newsletter available at the Web site. This is hardly a personalized current awareness service. Some will subscribe users to an e-mail announcement service. In the future, digital library service will include the development of personalized information spaces that will customize the user experience based on knowledge about individuals their past behaviors and preferences, and their connecting technologies. This kind of interaction is on the research agenda of DLI projects at institutions such as Cornell University