As Arnold Myers I was also surprised, when I read the original posting, that any ICOM committee would consider it necessary to have financial support in order to establish a network presence. In the case of Belgian national ICOM committee, we also just went ahead and put up Web pages without thought of money. But of course there is a cost. Howhever the creation of the material has been volntary work on the web server of the university museum of Louvain-la-Neuve. If national belgian ICOM committee wished to have a much larger presence with more files or a database or for a highly developed presentation, then I do think we would need to pay someone to do some of the work. What should be very usefull to begin is that the ICOM central server should give alphabetical list of links with national committees. Bernard Van den Driessche Musee de Louvain-la-Neuve [log in to unmask] Belgian national committee with two representatives : Yolande Morel and I, http://www.muse.ucl.ac.be