>... by on-demand retrieval, we can use them for display at the >appropriate time (during the patron's session). Considering the difficulty I am now having getting to the old LC catalogue, I wonder what would happen if hundreds of OPACs across the world were trying to access the same data source at the same time for display? There are also times here when a logging truck hits a power pole, and our internet service provider goes down until repairs are made, and power is restored to them. Our back up generator lets us work inhouse, but there is no outside connectivity. Colour me agnostic about the brave new world of linked data. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([log in to unmask]) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________ i