Gee Joe, you're right. It would be a HUGE savings! Libraries at each institution? How silly. And while cost conscious administrators are at it, there are probably plenty of personnel savings to be found using such logic. If you only need one library, maybe you only need one librarian. What a fabulous idea, think of all of the money that would be saved. It would take the strain off the serials budget and there'd be less squawking about the high costs of periodicals then. And why stop with librarians, why not eliminate the nasty costs of the professoriate as well? After all, with all of the marvelous information technologies at our fingertips, all we need do is caputure each prof's best lecture, and get their course outlines on something like WebCT. Why face the nasty prospect of recurring salaries when there could be a reasonable technological fix? Certainly we'll need adminstrators to keep thinks running smoothly. And of course, we'll need to have private information vendors...the administrators will need to have lunch without someone. Great ideas Joe, keep'm coming. Only problem is, someday you may be the only one left on this list! Sam Trosow University of Western Ontario