Dear Terry, Thank you for your insight. I am not at all against retrieving an accession for anyone - I am against dropping everything and doing it. As a library manager, I climbed through dusty attic spaces to find ship plans or damp basements to prowl through boxes and spent most of my tenure finding accessions, cataloging the library, placing everything into archival-safe boxes, folders, and such, developing the database, and recruiting people to help facilitate the project. I would find any item for any library patron. I don't think it would be outrageous or excessive to ask for a letter to accurately describe the object and the date of donation to facilitate the search. I will pass your comments along - thank you again! We may disagree on this one item, but I'm sure you find me rather tolerant of many things in museums. Cheers! Jennifer L. Williams Independent Museum-type Person (IMP) Boone, NC "I'm a doctor! Not an escalator!"