(Apologies for cross-posting to: TAXACOM, nhcoll-l, and MUSEUM-L.) In January 1995, the University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) began a three-year project to develop its next collections information system. As many of the challenges MVZ is facing in this effort are shared by other museums, documents describing our progress are being posted on the MVZ WWW server (http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/). A draft of the MVZ's Requirements Analysis has recently been completed and posted as two Adobe Acrobat files (*.pdf): Part I: Functional Requirements (8/31/95) http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/funcreq.pdf (90 KB) Part II: System Requirements (10/20/95) http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/sysreq.pdf (114 KB) The Functional Requirements section describes the activities that use, produce, and modify information within the Museum, describes the ways that information technology can be used to support those activities, and prioritizes applications according to expected costs and benefits. The System Requirements section describes the capacities and essential characteristics of the hardware and software that will fulfill the functional requirements and will fit within the operating environment of the Museum. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader appropriate for your computer to display or print the files. The Acrobat Reader (Ver 2.1) can be obtained (free) from www.adobe.com or ftp.adobe.com for the following platforms: DOS, Windows, Mac, SunSPARC (both SunOS and Solaris), SGI, and HP-UX. Please direct any comments or inquiries to: Stan Blum ([log in to unmask]), and Barbara R. Stein ([log in to unmask])