---------- I am really pleased that the MCN Conference will be relatively close to home this year. I attempted to convice the board that I should go to Seattle one year, Washington another year and was an utter failure at San Diego last year. I think the budget might be able to handle Ottawa this year! I am Bill Smith at Huronia Museum and Huron Indian Village in Midland, Ontario. Situated on the southern shore of Georgian Bay our museum is a standard regional history museum with an appended replica Huron Indian Village representing the life of the Huron before European contact. I am the Assistant Curator/Photographic Archivist and the lucky one to be in charge of the museum computerization programme for collections management. My personal background is in professional commercial/industrial photography. I was educated at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California (1972). My particular interest is in the cataloguing of photographic images on the database and the use of that database for research and the subsequent sale of photographs for publication. I am investigating ways to put our images on a system to be available for remote access via the internet. I am very interested in photographic restoration and conservation. I now can restore images photomechanically but want to move on to the newer frontiers of digital enhancement. Money, budgets and time are continual deterrents to progress in some areas but we are progressing steadily forward in a effort to catch up with technology. I'm looking forward to meeting and sharing ideas with everyone. Cheers, Bill Smith