Dear Jane and Jennifer, Thanks for your fine commentaries. I hope that your words will stimulate some others on the subject of the future of museum work. We start our conference tomorrow morning and finish Saturday afternoon. I hope that I will be able to synthesize some of the discourse and send it through museum-l on Saturday or Sunday as I think we are dealing with a global issue for the heritage/cultural worker. Thanks for your thoughts and insights. Jane, I will be waiting for your book. Many of your remarks in your message resonate with the work with the CMA doicument and I will make sure that Nancy Fuller brings a copy back to you. Well, it is an interesting time for museums and museum workers. But I am a little worried; it will probably take me a couple of decades to figure all of this change out and then it will be time to go to the museological rest home or maybe I'll make it there sooner than I think. Even tenure at universities is at risk these days! And many of you will say a good thing too! Bye for now, Lynne Teather, "I'm still be-mused, bothered Museum Studies Program, and bewildered." University of Toronto Phone: 416-978-8822 E-Mail: [log in to unmask]