I appreciate the current efforts of standardization thesaurus catagories but I keep wondering when someone such as national organizations etc are going to begin postulating standarization of computer programs for like material or even all materials. As a small museum, I am not interested in searching through the thousands of software programs currently available, many of which will be out of business before I get one up and running nor am I interested in becoming a computer nerd and trying to or have tailored new software. As the museum world moves to the electronic age, if small-medium museums with their staff of generalists want to be included in efforts to browse their restricted catalogues etc. registrars, collections managers or whatever title the institution wants to hang on its personnel need an easy STANDARD software program to begin the data consolidation process. I think that the 6 museum collaboration that I saw at the Burke Museum in Seattle was a good example whereby even the visitors had access to limited listings from those museums. Visitors were answering their own questions and curiosity thus saving staff time and interruptions. What is the feeling of the list members on this? Carole DeFord Collections Manager