The recent flurry of activity in restructuring ICOM-L was intended to serve two purposes. The one was to enable a broader and more convenient point of contact between the International Council of Museums and the network community that it hopes to serve. The second was to transcend the formal boundaries of ICOM's committee structure and provide members of the various committees with a forum for discussion of subjects of joint interest. There are numerous substantive issues that I would like to see discussed here but before instigating any further, I am eager to learn what the list's members were expecting of it when they joined. The administrative announcements that you've been subjected to during the past few weeks have driven a surprisingly small number of faint-hearted members to resign (leaving around 840 people to receive this message). The rest of you are presumably hoping that something of interest will soon happen here. Perhaps we could get the ball rolling with your speaking up about exactly what this might be. Personal introductions would be a welcome and useful part of this process. (I'll chime in about myself when it seems appropriate but have probably already contributed far more than my fair share of verbiage.) It might also be useful if the ICOM Committees could provide some information about their current activities. Cary Karp mailto:[log in to unmask]