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Last week, III announced that they are removing a number of circulation functions from the telnet menus in a software update that became generally available this month. From what I've been able to surmise, functions that will be removed include placing holds and checking things in or or out. Removing these menu options will break scripts that have been in use for years at institutions in our consortium, and lots more staff time will be required to perform certain tasks after some systems are upgraded. Apparently, III recently discovered that a bug involving holds was caused by the character-based system, but it is also related to a desire to port everything to Millennium. Based on the reasoning behind the announcement, future updates are likely result in other mission critical scripts breaking as other character-based functionality is deprecated. Just a reminder of the risks of relying on automation that depend on interfaces that are losing vendor support. kyle