The "team approach" has also had a number of failures that are important to consider. The most notable was the debacle at the Field Museum wherein the "team" so fouled the curatorial approach that curators resigned and wall labels were put up disavowing the exhibit. I believe Museum News carried articles about that situation. Some have seen the "team approach" as an effort on the part of Administrations to do away with the middle management level of museums, i.e. curatorial, in favor of having the education, pr and other depts. work with Admin. to create exhibits. This same approach has been used in U.S. industry for the past five years, cutting out the middle, and has amplified concerns over the lack of product quality and the destruction of the middle class and the limitation of upward mobility within corporate and institutional structures. The team approach is not a given and may go the way of other managerial theories of the past decade. Paul Apodaca Bowers Museum Santa Ana, CA