 Okay, hi, my name is Shayna Haralczyk and recently I've been consulting at a lot of small historical societies and house museums It's an interesting environment to work in and we're sort of confronted with a lot of unusual situations Definitely an issue we're always dealing with is trying to stretch the dollar usually our only access to Conservators is when you're conserving a specific piece Which means that for many of the day-to-day issues when you're just trying to store materials say in an attic Or a basement or some other area of the building that you've retrofitted or when you're building mounts You don't have that access base to draw upon so for me It would be extremely helpful to have a listserv or some other form of way to get in contact with Conservators on an informal basis where you can ask those day-to-day questions that may not be concerned about conserving a specific piece and then sort of linked to that a lot of what we Of course in the historical societies is on extremely small budgets so having access to Finding out about materials that may be alternatives That could be purchased a lot more cheaply another issue along the same lines is I'm interested in the possibility of Whether or not there could be a consortium for a purchasing consortium So lots of smaller institutions might be able to pool together the resources and buy things in larger quantities That can then be redistributed to the group