In our last issue we looked at three of the six digital library projects in America that are receiving $24.4m of federal funding, intended ‘to dramatically advance the means to collect, store and organise information in digital forms, and make it available for searching, retrieval and processing via communications networks in user‐friendly ways.’ The three we covered were the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and the University of Michigan. In this issue we round off this study with a look at the remaining three.