Gentle Colleagues: May I call your attention to an article on the front page of the WEEKEND section of today's Wall St. Journal? At the bottom of the page (and continued inside) is a lengthy article about the problems being experienced with CD's. While the issue they are addressing is "commercial" use of sound recording, it is no different than the problems inherent in any information in that format (and what makes us think that public records are not "commercial?") Public access of records on CD's precludes the fact that dam- age will occur. The article is definitely cautionary and should be shared with all. Leigh Leigh C. Eckmair, Historian Town of Butternuts The Local History Collection THE GILBERTSVILLE FREE LIBRARY e-mail:[log in to unmask]