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I was in Chicago last year and went for a tour of the Newberry Library (www.newberry.org) and really enjoyed it. It's an old independent research library on Washington Square Park and it's beautiful. (If you read THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE [1], it's where Henry works. [2]) They have free tours on Thursdays at 3, but they request advance notice of groups. I'm happy to be in touch with them and try to arrange a Code4Lib group tour, and to wrangle the C4L people who might want to go. If there a just a few, that's no problem; if there are a lot, maybe we can arrange something special. Questions: Are any of you who are going to the conference interested in such a tour? Does that time suit? Would you be interested in going behind the scenes, if possible, and seeing their conservation room and so on? Bill [1] If you haven't read it, then it's a good one to read before visiting Chicago. [2] If you saw the movie, which is a poor substitute for the book, you didn't see the Newberry, because the movie was filmed in Toronto and two different libraries here were library doubles for it. -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/