Hi Bayla: With regard to library catalogs discouraging physical visits: first, I have no real expertise in this; second, the NY Botanical Garden's on-line library catalog has a wonderful "browse" approach, in that it will show you the stuff *next* to the stuff your looking for. Kind of a virtual stack. I only mention this because one of the great pleasures of a musuem visit is looking at things that you didn't expect to see or be interested in. In my recent visit to the Natural History Museum in NY, I made a beeline for the fossil mammal exhibit; after an hour or so there, I happened to wander through a wonderful exhibit on Genghis Khan and the Mongols (I don't think that I saw the word "horde" in the whole exhibit." But I did see a yurt, very nice one at that). On line wandering is one of the great pleasures of the Internet as well, which is why Mosaic is so much fun (even if it is like wandering through a tar pit in terms of speed). Won't it be wonderful when on-line visits to museum collections and images will allow you to connect instantly to other museums collections, so you can see all of Piero Della Francesca's digitized images at one go. As far as that goes, what about digital enhancement of images. I wouldn't mind a cyber visit to those old wrecks of frescoes at Arezzo or somewhere cleaned up with digital enhancement technology. Given the controversy over real re-touching and the like, maybe this is the way to go. On and on. Best Regards Eric