Colleagues (especially in St. Louis): I hope that someone in St. Louis (LA's program is already set) is thinking of developing a panel (perhaps a plenary session) on the topic of inter-institutional cooperation on automation. Perhaps have someone from IMLS on the panel as well. Moira Steven's well-thought-out summary is a model of what the audience for such a session would look for. I don't remember all the other responses there have been to the list, but I believe that several of them represented different combinations of different types of libraries in a most fascinating way. This is a topic that could interest a broad spectrum of the membership, even though most of our libraries are already automated, because the politics of cooperation--and joint grant proposing--could be applicable to other joint ventures. Joan Benedetti __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]