Two weeks ago I asked for information about personal digital assistants in museums: I am interrested in "personal digital assistants" and their educational use in exhibits. Does anyone know of museums that use the technology successfully, what different systems there are on the market and what they cost. As I understand it does the assistent contain information on a CD-ROM which is presented to the visitor through earphones. The technique resembles what you get with taperecorders and hearing loops, but with a possibility for the visitors to interact and individually choose what they want to hear. Any fragmentary piece of information is welcome. You can either respond to the list or to me personally, [log in to unmask], and I will compile the answers I get. These are the answers I recieved: I understand from my sister who just returned from Britain that the National Gallery uses CD-ROM based acoustiguides. Judith Price, Canadian Museum of Nature Vi heller just pe att fe de fvrsta cd-rom spelarna till Nordiska museet fvr att prova dom i en utstdllning i ndsta er. Ta kontakt med Chris Tellus pe Antenna i USA han har negot kallat GalleryiGuide, e-mail [log in to unmask], eller fvr ett annat system, AudioMate med flash minnen, som vi ockse tdnkt prova Johan Jacobsson-Ivv pe MacroCom, tel 08 464 71 71 Johan Aredal, Nordiska Museet We supply a digital wand system which provides a random access,layered, multi language audio treatment to support permanent and temporary exhibitions. Over the last months, this has been used by the Library of Congress for their Biblioteque nationale exhibition as well as the Guggenheim and LACMA.If you would care to send me your address I will be happy to send you details and pricing. kind regards. Michael McLoughlin, [log in to unmask] Thank you very much for your help. johan