The current discussion on commercial services versus Internet services raises several issues that Smithsonian staff have pondered. Over the past few years t he Institution has disseminated materials over various networks: Internet, Com puServe, GEnie, and America Online. For us, the Internet delivers our materials to one kind of audience, the "boutique" (i.e., commercial) services to another kind of audience. In fact, however, I think that we have found that audiences are not so easily defined. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, for example, attracts a diverse audience to the services it offers over America Online. (I prefer to let my colleagues at that museum describe their own experience; they are quite articulate.)Serving as broad an audience as possible in as many ways as possible appeals to us greatly. An additional benefit of disseminating materials over a commercial service is that it can provide a level of technical expertise and support that my office, for example, could never furnish for itself. Our anonymous ftp server contains our complete "Resource Guide for Teachers." On America Online, we offer the same guide, but there as a searchable database. For us, using commercial services *and* the Internet makes the most sense. Tom Lowderbaugh Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Arts and Industries Building, Room 1163 Mail Stop 402 Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20560