Overview -- Some key issues in database systems in a Digital Library setting -- Promising research directions in Digital Libraries -- Which way to the future? The control of scholarly publication -- Networked information systems as Digital Libraries -- Automatic hypertext conversion of paper document collections -- Administering structured documents in Digital Libraries -- Document recognition for a Digital Library -- Using non-textual cues for electronic document browsing -- Corpus Linguistics for establishing the natural language content of Digital Library documents -- Compression and full-text indexing for Digital Libraries -- The Digital Library and the home-based user -- Integrating natural language with large dataspace visualization -- The automated analysis, cataloging, and searching of digital image libraries: A machine learning approach -- A video database system for Digital Libraries -- Developing the scientific-technical Digital Library at a National Laboratory -- DL-Raid: An environment for supporting Digital Library services.