Just to clarify my earlier message, which seems to have created some confusion: I am not proposing to set up a separate list from MUSEUM-L, nor would I be competent to do so. My previous posting was an invitation to others who are concerned with teaching and reference collections to participate in an e-mail discussion on the side. My thought was that the care of such collections involves minutiae that may not interest the larger museum community, and I didn't want to load your mailboxes with such things. I have been following the response on MUSEUM-L with interest, as well as the responses of those who have expressed an interest in my invitation, and I do not yet know what will come of all this. In any case, I have no intention of cancelling *my* subscription to MUSEUM-L.