marking many object available to, for instance, a large campus community, requires strong capacious networks and sizeable active storage and delivery capabilities. Deployment of streaming media, familiar to most of us through Real Audio and Real Video, will mark even more demands on capacity and expertise. Add to this the need for security and authentication management (some of which is likely to be already in place). and distributed transaction processing, and it becomes clear that the impact of digital library activity on institutional computing resources is far from trivial.