On August 8, 2000, Interim Dean Ron Moran announced the creation of the Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing (CEDP). Then only a nominal center, the CEDP initiated the complicated business of implementation as outlined by the AAH Press Task Force, which took its findings to the faculty last spring and went on to analyze the cost of our existing publication program. There is no mistaking the historic occasion of the August announcement and of the approval by the Commission on Higher Education on July 18, 2000.