I would just like to wish everybody happy holidays and to thank you for some great discussions. It has been a real pleasure to have this contact with museum professionals-the community in SA being rather small and fairly non-existent in my field. I hope, though, that next year all those lurking South Africans will make their voices heard-I know you are out there. I know the activities in Europe, the US and Canada sometimes seem way beyond what we are struggling with but we do deal with many similar problems and I think that SA museums have something to offer the debate-Excuse the blurb but we have only been able to be patriotic since 1994 so tend to wallow in it a bit. Anyway more and more museums here are finally getting connected so I hope the list will have a more African flavour next year. Kathryn