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Hello all -- This isn't about EAD per se, but it is related to archives and special collections, so I hope you will forgive the slight OT-ness. I know that there are several specialized tools out there for various special collections management and access activities -- tracking retrievals, storing inventories, allowing web access, storing size, location, and so on (Archivists Toolkit, Aeon, etc). However, I'm wondering if anyone out there is offering researchers/end users any type of special option(s) via their library's regular OPAC, even something as simple as "Ask a question about this collection." For example, say a student does a search in the university's main OPAC and comes up with 17 hits, 3 of which happen to be manuscript collections. They click on one of those and the MARC record for the manuscript collection comes up. Do you offer them any special (i.e. unique to special collections records) links, buttons, options, etc at that point? If so, what? If not, what do you wish you could to offer? At this point the only "special" thing we offer from within the OPAC record is the 856 MARC field with a link to the collection's EAD finding aid, but I'm pondering if there are other things that might be useful... Michele +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Michele Combs. Librarian for Manuscripts and Archives Processing. Special Collections Research Center. Syracuse University Library. 222 Waverly Avenue. Syracuse, NY 13244 +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+