We must do much more than aggregate and provide access to digital scientific information ... Our job now is to wire people's brains together so that sharing, reasoning, and collaboration become part of everyday work.
   - Rick Luce, LWW Project Leader

The first generation of LWW digital library products focused on increasing our reach by providing access to digital content. Now that we have a critical mass of digital content and metadata available on the scientist's desktop, we need to make it more useable.

Four strategies support our strategic direction, they are:

1. Develop next generation tools — Increase the richness of the scientific literature through the development of next-generation capabilities to exploit our information repositories.
2. Develop knowledge discovery capabilities — We house enormous amounts of data (6+ TB, annually increasing by ~1+ TB). We are developing capabilities to allow our scientists to turn information into insight.
3. Enable scientific collaboration to help scientists network and collaborate with their international colleagues.
4. Provide the workforce and infrastructure to enable us to support our scientists via Library Without Walls products and services.

Library Without Walls customers use our digital library technology to access a wealth of scientific and technical resources worldwide from the desktop, any time, anywhere. The LWW project supports the Research Library mission of increasing the efficiency of Laboratory research staff through our information and knowledge products and services. The LWW project is distinguished by its integration of a broad set of library components that work together synergistically. These principles guide our evolution:

• Enhance scientific research productivity through enabling digital library technologies, which integrate user applications and digital content. Systems and products are measured by their ability to facilitate new forms of collaboration among our users.
  
  
• Partner with our customers to enhance the access and usability of information, which contributes to our mutual success.
  
  
• Shift from customer / supplier relationships to partnerships with our key providers. We have successfully formed partnerships with primary journal publishers, secondary database producers, software companies and libraries.