The reason I didn't respond the first time is because I am a collections manager in a fairly large museum and I thought you specified medium sized museums. Our institution has a collections manager for each major collection, ornithology, ichthyology, botany (vacant), vertebrate biology/paleontology, malacology, invert. paleontology, entomology, exhibits, diatoms, and I've probably forgotten one or two. The best analogy for collections managers here is a librarian. We are responsible for all database management, the physical well-being of the specimens, loan, visitors, questions from the public, behind-the-scenes tours, and management of curatorial assistants and volunteers. I hope this is helpful. In a sense it might be redundant as I was one of the respondants for Paisley Cato's survey. Elana Benamy Collection Manager, Invertebrate Paleontology Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [log in to unmask] ps. I hope this is in order once posted because my screen was disrupted by a new mail message and was never restored properly-as I'm typing new stuff, it's appearing in the middle of the text on my screen. My apologies if it's scrambled.