The question has arisen among academic librarians attending continuing education/summer courses and conferences at other sites as to how they may keep in touch with home base electronically if they 1) lack an account with a commercial service and their home base offers no 800 number and also if they 2) lack a portable machine with a modem. Are there any evolving conventions at various institutions for dealing with this situation? Is the situation different at every spot in the universe? What does your institution do when wandering scholars - and librarians - show up, begging? My sense is that this is an area currently full of potholes and badly in need of some general understandings. Kathryn Wright Indiana State University LIBKAT@INDST or [log in to unmask]