 Good morning. I'm Greta Bever, Assistant Commissioner for Central Library Services here. On behalf of Commissioner Brian Bannon, I'd like to welcome you or welcome you back to the Harold Washington Library Center of the Chicago Public Library. We are delighted to be hosting DPLA and to offer our colleagues the opportunity to participate in this important and exciting work. I know that yesterday was a day of stimulating conversation and thought. And for many who attended, it went well into the night, I know. I am glad that we have the chance today to get back together and resume that dialogue. I am also very happy for the chance to reintroduce John Pelfrey, Head of School at Phillips Academy and over, and Chair for DPLA Steering Committee, and of course on DPLA's board. Here's John. Greta, thank you so much and thank you importantly to every member of the Chicago Public Library staff and to Brian Bannon, the Commissioner for hosting us here for our DPLA Midwest plenary. We couldn't be more delighted to be in Chicago and in this beautiful building. For those who were here yesterday, we had a wonderful day of work stream meetings. It was incredibly productive, so thank you to everybody who was here and rolled up your sleeves to help us figure out in these last several months of planning what the DPLA should be and to those who were not welcome to the public plenary session today. The model that we've had through the planning process for the DPLA has been just in this way, which is we've had days before the big session where lots of people came and worked on specific issues and then we've had these big stage events and we are delighted to do it. Welcome also to everyone who is joining us by live stream and by live blog. Hello out there, thank you for joining us in this virtual way. We're thrilled to have so many people, more than 1,000 people have been actively involved in the list serves and the live streaming over the course of this project and we know not everyone can get on planes and come to beautiful Chicago every time so we're delighted that you're joining us from afar and we look forward to your tweeting and blogging and all sorts of other things, send in photographs. If you are tweeting, please use the hashtag pound dplamidwest up here. That's the sort of hash sign dplamidwest and we look forward to following your comments as the day goes along. You can see from your program, obviously the overall trajectory of the conversation. We're gonna start in a moment with the supporting the DPLA segment but I wanted just to back up and give a few moments of context before we get this group of wonderful supporters up here on the stage. It was exactly two years ago at this time, in fact in October of 2010 that our great friend and colleague and many ways founder of this effort, Robert Darten convened a meeting the support of Doran Weber of the Sloan Foundation and about 30 other people, people from foundations, people from libraries, public and private, people like Jerry McGahn, a professor at UVA who just had an interest in trying to work toward a free and open public resource like what we have now envisioned the DPLA to be. And back at that meeting, the 30 or so people came up with one sentence that we agreed upon. This was Doran Weber's insight that we should push for one sentence. That sentence has remained the core of this effort and we've roughly speaking built around that idea and brought other people into the fold over the last two years and it's really tracing back to that moment two years ago that this conversation started. And it was one year ago today that we launched formally the planning process for the DPLA. This happened at the National Archives. We were hosted by David Ferriero, the incomparable National Archivist who has been hugely supportive of this effort all the way through and we were joined in Washington by many, many good friends and many of the public institutions that are represented here today, the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, the National Archives, IMLS and other federal agencies in that moment stood together with many of us from the private sector and said we want to do this. We joined hands together and said this is something that we aspire to do on behalf of this country in a completely ambitious and almost crazy way. But what's happened in that period of a year is we've continued to gain momentum in many ways that we will describe today. This is not yet something that is set in stone in terms of what we're doing. We think of it still as wet clay and very much a participatory process. But where we're headed is to April 2013 as Bob Darten says every time we meet it's just around the corner, April 2013. And that will be our public launch of the project with an initial version of the service and a fair amount of content and so forth that will be released. So that's the overall arc of what we're doing and today is a very important day. This is the last plenary session before that kickoff. So we need your input, we need your feedback and we're well on our way toward what I think will be an exciting launch in April. With that as an overview, I'd like to welcome up to the stage if I might colleagues who are gonna talk about supporting the DPLA and you have a few of their names on your program but they're actually two surprise people as well. I'm gonna welcome up Doran Weber, Chairman Jim Leach of the NEH, Susan Hildreth and Maureen Sullivan and George Martinez are the two additional, yes please come on up.