>>> Stolen museum object listings are not available "on line:" Three organizations currently keep stolen museum object listings, each with its own mandate, restrictions, and different set of files from the other. Two are restricted police files, hard to separate the changing line of priviledged from public information. The last is commercial, for sale on paper: FBI Stolen Art File, Diane Adkins, 202-324-6040 Interpol US, Angela Meadows, 202-616-9000 Internat Found for Art Research, IFAR Art Loss Register, Anna Kisluk, 212-879-1740 Canadian Heritage Information Network, CHIN, computerizes and combines Interpol loss files and Canadian files as Register of Stolen Art and Artifacts, ROSA, which can be queried but is not on line with CHIN. Contact is Lisa Schur, Interpol, RCMP, 613-993-8309. >>> Important advice, please, for using these contacts: Don't make initial police reports to these people. Contact your local police, constabulary, etc., first. FBI, RCMP, and Interpol prefer or insist that initial reports come first from local law enforcement. >>> We have worked with these agencies for over ten years to make them user friendly, provide better service, and motivate them to join Internet, providing sanitized information. I joined MUSEUM-L a month ago and have experimented posting the 3 July stolen cultural property events to security directors on Internet, without extensive lists of objects. I deduce that MUSEUM-L would like regular alerts of museum loss events, with phone numbers for follow up information just as EX LIBRIS does for libraries now. EX LIBRIS has resulted in recoveries, and, from suspect notices (very limited and ethically appropriate), arrests. I'll post major national and international cultural property losses on MUSEUM-L for everyone's notice and protection until any other direct list holders decide to do so. As a new user, I wanted to see what you appreciated and how. So... no news will be good news, most times. We are now for the first time able to post alerts as fast, if not faster, as the culprits can get from institution to institution or re sell our goods, whether they subscribe to MUSEUM-L or not! David Liston, Protection Awareness, Smithsonian Institution doing the same thing with AAM and ICOM security committees