On February 4 Robert Guralnick wrote: >The world does not need any more sloppy, unorganized, >cluttered gophers. The world needs lots more >well organized and well maintained, specific, topical and useful >gophers. But one person's clutter is another person's goldmine and innovation isn't always neat. But, on the whole, I agree. >The answer is organization; the packaging of information. >Whether a museum curator or contributor to museum-l, it is the PACKAGING >that determines the impact of information. That's why I think exhibition and museum design should consider electronic resources from the planning stages, not as an add-on (in the same way that curators should consider funding at the planning stage of an exhibition). All departments that deal with electronic text and images should be involved: exhibit designers, publications, registrars and publications. I'm taking a class in exhibition design from Ralph Appelbaum (who did the Holocaust Memorial and, it seems, everything else these days) and I hope to have solved all these problems by the end of the semester. :-} Robbin Murphy [log in to unmask]