Friends: I am interested in hearing from anyone out there, who has had experience in operating, coping and perhaps flourishing in the use of a Library Information system for the documentation of material culture collections. In particular, what are the pleasures or pitfalls of using MARC format Coding to document the objects to standards similar to our Library colleagues. In so many respects we have the requirements for similar functionality -acquisition, reservation and circulation. As well we need other distinct management functions of loans reservation, conservation, risk management, exhibit tracking and processing, audit of use, etc. which may or may not be replictalted inan ILS. We are very interested at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in the principle of "one-stop shopping" for our information requirements. If I was to query the database (s) for the word "Totem Pole" it would be desirable to receive information back as to our holdings related to the query in the collections of : material culture holdings (the objects themselves); still and moving pictures; books; periodicals; manuscripts and monographs; oral history recordings; Bibliographic information and advice as to the wisdom or otherwise of this pursuit will be greatly received. Roger Baird Canadian Museum of Civilization [log in to unmask]