Just a few quick and dirty thoughts: You really do need some staff at the location for both software and hardware problems. If you put some of your current staff there are you showing that you really do not need all that staff you currently have in the Map Room?? Can you set up a easy to use communication system between the Map Room and the Branch?? If no map room staff is to be present what about setting up a workstation with a multi-CD drive, a good menu, and some easy to use programs. Allow patrons to use and print from Map Expert and Global Explorer. I would like to test Map Expert as a database on the UGA Libraries Reference LAN. (Are the DeLorme people still on the net?? --Can I do this??? --The LAN goes out over the University broadband to other LANs on campus and to campus modum users.) You might want to set up ArcView with some preloaded files of heavy use maps. What I want to do at Georgia is make any PC a potential GIS center. What I plan (that is: want, or beg my library for) is a Map Room LAN with broadband connections. Most of the Map Room's software and databases would be available on this LAN, as would menu connections to other data sites. Gopher connections would also be part of the system. I am currently looking into establishing a Map Room gopher which, since I do not have a LAN, would be located, for now, on xxxx's (political deletion) system. Johnnie Sutherland University of Georgia JSUTHERL@UGA