The products you would want depends, as always, on your site and situation. What do you want your site to be? What and who should it serve. How much time and effort can you and your staff spend on the site? The answers to all of these and more that you can easily think of should be used in designing an appropiate site. There are many more products out there than you can afford with the $1000. The following recommendations are based on usage in a slightly different environment than the one you have described. (The Map Collection has a small lab with a LAN of 5 workstations, a server with a large harddisk and a 6 cd-rom tower, color and laser printers, and a scanner. The LAN is connected to the University's broadband and to the Internet. The Collections is in the ARL GIS project and has a fair sized collection of digital data.) Some of the following products work on a LAN and some do not. Most of the CD products will require some space on the workstation's harddrive. You will need a large harddrive if you want them all pre-loaded with a usable icon on the menu. If you do not they will have to be loaded each time they are used. (Either a security problem or a staff time problem.) One way to look at the products is to break them up into categories. For example: Road Atlases: "Map Expert" or "Street Atlas USA" Trip or Travel Planners: "Automap" (Only slightly better liked by patrons) We have not yet received "Microsoft's Automap" but it looks good on the Web. "Map'n'go" (or Mop'n'Glow") is also very good. I have not tried the others. Historical Atlases: "Centennia" (From Clockwork). I do not know if this is in a CD version, but it is very, very nice. It covers Europe right now and is suppose to be extended to the other regions. A must buy if historical atlases are important. "The Great American History Machine" and "AniMap" (spelling?) are both good buys for the U.S. World Atlases: There are several world atlases programs out there with many different features. You need to pick up one of them. "Global Explorer" from DeLorme has been a disappointment because, unlike the outstanding print capabilities of their other products, staff and patrons have found printing from the atlas to be a problem. Regional Atlases: These are just starting to appear. I have not yet seen the Bartholomew cd on Europe but it is a possible choice. You might look at their whole range of cd databases, but they are probably out of your price range. National Atlases: There are several U.S. atlases out there, you will need one of them. State Atlases: Several states have e-Atlases. If there is one for your state you need the thing. Reference tools. You need at least the "GNIS" cd of U.S. names. The "GEOname" cd is probably out of your price range, but is excellent for foreign names. If your usage warrents, or it is in your Gov. Doc. Dept. you might want the "APSRS" cd from USGS. Digital Data: GIS and imagery data and software have not been covered above because it would be a separate catagory that does not appear to be part of your plans. It would also mostly be out of your budget range. However you could consider: 1) Pull the "Landview" cds out of Gov Docs and add to the list of atlases loaded on the workstation. 2) Download "Arcview 1" from the Web for free and buy the ArcInfo version of the "Digital Chart of the World". 3) Put "Corel" or another graphics software on the workstation so patrons can manipulate their images. 4) Give the workstation access to the Web so patrons can get data off the Web (but watch the type of use!). Are you going to put together a list of all the recommendations and post it on the list?? Hope so. John Sutherland University of Georgia Map Collection