.... also, I can assure you that to help keep registration fees low we'll be leaning on our vendors ... ========= Who would be these vendors? Seems CODE4LIB (bringing in creative, leading edge, OpenSource ideas where ILS have monolithically reigned) are the bad dream of ILS vendors. WorldCat DeveNet/Research may make an exception, but will it be $$$$$ufficient? Yašaqov