DREI - Digital Reference Education Initiative - Digital reference has already had a tremendous impact on library practice across library types and geography. Anecdotal evidence of impact can be seen in the growing number of digital reference publications, conference presentations, and large-scale digital reference projects such as the Virtual Reference Desk project, QuestionPoint and the State of Washington LSTA efforts. Digital reference is no longer a limited experiment in some libraries, but increasingly a new reality in many reference service environments. However, this new reality has outpaced the library training and education infrastructure to support it. The Digital Reference Education Initiative (DREI) seeks to bring together the collective expertise of practitioners, library educators, and digital reference software developers interested in issues of education and training in order to develop core competencies, and educational approaches to digital reference. DREI’s main goal is to create an adaptable collection of core competencies, standards, tools, and training materials that may be used in various library and other information industry settings, and to provide access to these materials through this site. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.