Archive sites for material produced by several ICOM committee working groups are now available for public access. These sites also contain material produced by organisations which, either by deliberate arrangement or through coincidentally shared membership, are closely associated with ICOM. Users who have access to FTP services will find document repositories at: ftp://calvin.chin.doc.ca/pub/ICOM and ftp://ftp.nrm.se/pub/ICOM . The first of these sites is maintained by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and the second by the Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM). Material is posted simultaneously on both. Please use the one closest to your own location. The Swedish site may also be accessed by Gopher and World Wide Web users at: gopher://gopher.nrm.se and http://www.nrm.se/ The Canadian site will be providing similar facilities early next year. Users who only have access to e-mail facilities may retrieve documents from the FTP sites through ftpmail services. NRM also operates a mail server which can access several of the documents available on the FTP sites. A list of these may be obtained by sending a message to: [log in to unmask] giving the command INDEX on the first line of the message. This command will be ignored if it is preceded by any blank space, even if only a single space or tab. The command will also be ignored if preceded by a blank line or a line containing an invalid command to the mail server, so make sure that your e-mail program doesn't insert any text at the outset of the body of your message. (Sorry to belabor this point, but it's amazing how much difficulty people have in doing this properly.) The archives of several e-mail distribution lists operated by ICOM committee working groups, or by organizations related to them, are maintained at: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/ or gopher://palimpsest.stanford.edu . These facilities are are part of Conservation OnLine (CoOL) which also contains many of the ICOM documents available through the FTP sites, plus much additional material of interest to the museum community. CoOL also provides the ability to locate and retrieve documents by index searching through a variety of points of entry. Further information about CoOL may be obtained from Walter Henry of the Stanford University Libraries Conservation Lab: [log in to unmask] Questions regarding the CHIN and NRM archive sites may be directed to me. Although this announcement will be posted through several channels (apologies to those irritated by the duplication) the preferred forum for the discussion of ICOM- related facilities of this type is CIDOC-L. (Please don't take this as an attempt at steering the way people use the network. It is simply a reference to the forum that is most closely monitored by the people providing the services in question.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cary Karp <[log in to unmask]> Department of Information Technology Phone: +46 8 666 4055 Swedish Museum of Natural History Fax: +46 8 15 22 77 Box 50007, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden