On the access to information thread: CIMI Members too are very interested in access to museum information and we would gladly participate in an AAM session. In our Project CHIO - Cultural Hertitage information Online - we are looking at both the technical issues involved in developing federated online multiple media information as well as the implementation, resource, and organizational change aspects museums will face in making information available in digital form whether that be by internet, other digital networks, kiosks, distributed databases and client/servers, or digital publishing. Others with good experiences to hear about would be: Research Libraries Group (RLG) is examining the access, intellectual control and resource implications for large scale image cataloging projects (Digital Image Access Project, contact Patti McClung [log in to unmask]; NMAA already mentioned in this thread but who are doing other interesting things besides AOL (contact Steve Dietz [log in to unmask]); the Canadian Museum of Civilization who are investigating the re-engineering of museum activity in the digital age (Project DIGIMUSE, contact [log in to unmask] a description of this written by George MacDonald was posted recently on this list), and the RAMA Consortium, a group of 13 European museums and telecoms who have a ISDN-based network connecting their museums capable of information retrieval as well as images and full motion video (contact Dominique Delouis, [log in to unmask]).