I would be interested in hearing from a Museum which uses classification numbers instead of "accession numbers" (year.#) for organizing its records and labelling purposes. We are in the process of automating our collection and the director and I have been arguing back and forth about the merits of doing it one way vs. the other. He wants us on a numeric system so that all newspapers begin with a one number, lithostones another number, wood engravings another, etc. I said that Museums don't do it that way, and in my cataloging I am already assigning both a physical description and subject headings/descriptors which would make this kind of numeric system redundant. Thanks for your response. Emily Nedell Curator Museum of Printing History