Judith Klavans reviews some of the current practices and key technology research areas relevant to challenges of the digital library, including presentation of information through natural language analysis and summarization, visualization techniques, search over image and text, multilingual document access, image retrieval, and intellectual property protection mechanisms. The applications areas discussed will include commercial, educational, and instructional technologies. Specific details are provided on some of the most innovative technologies currently under development. From the Series:Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing