Oops. Just reread the last bit of Cal's message more carefully. That RLIN has decreased postal costs of ILL. He's probably right. I don't know about RLIN, but OCLC has a per use charge that has made it prohibitive for libraries to make OCLC available to individual patrons. That's truly unfortunate, since OCLC's records provide a tremendous research resource--although of course it's frustrating to know that various books exist out there that we can't obtain for our own use. In addition, though, OCLC provides access to a Name Authority, which provides some information on names, pseudonyms, birth- and death dates. Not many film people are included, except to the extent that film scripts, biographies, etc., have been cataloged--and then it's still a question of the depth of cataloging. Name Authority works takes much time and only a few libraries are eligible to provide such information. Harriet Dr Harriet Margolis Department of Theatre & Film Victoria University of Wellington P.O.Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand. Telephone 64-4 4715359, Facsimile 64-4 4955090