Ben Fuller asked about "hard" statistics on museum operations. There is the "Data Report from the 1989 National Museum Survey," published by AAM. The survey was funded by IMS and others, and is the most comprehensive of its kind to date. The Report is charts, graphs, tables, etc--data, basically. A somewhat more user-friendly publication is the public version of these data, called "Museums Count." This is being printed as we (electronically) speak, and will be offered for sale at the Seattle meeting and subsequently through the AAM bookstore: 202-289-9127. No e-mail order option just yet. John Strand Editor Museum News American Association of Museums