How not to start!

Well, progress has been slow.
Emails have been taking 48 hours to get from Michigan to Cincinnati.
My car broke down three days ago (water pump, timing belt). I won't have it for another week. Wouldn't you know it just went out of warranty last month.
I could use my bike but it's raining today. Finally got a loaner car.

After all the interruption, today I made it back to the little public library with free wireless internet access. I am looking at background articles, on both digital archives (DAs) and institutional repositories (IRs).

I've read some on MIT's DSpace from their site at http://www.dspace.org .
Clifford Lynch wrote a great report on IRs available at http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html .
If I can figure out how, I'll create a separate folder with good links in it.
I might also create one with ideas of projects I might do myself.