I am not sure who originally prepared these remarks, but the message as it is presented below was passed on to me by Paul Wendt, who runs the Kress Seminar (see the accompanying message about that seminar). I thought members of the list might be interested, and will also save this info for inclusion in the archival files. Ross Kress Library Until December 1989, the Kress Library (economic books and pamphlets, especially 16-18th centuries) was open to the public, housed in a suite of the Baker Library building on the Harvard Business School campus, with its own librarian, Ruth Rogers. You may recall that Ruth Rogers and the Kress library were the on-site hosts of the 1987 HES conference when Donald Walker was the program chairman. In those days, we met after-hours in the Kress library reading room, with Ruth Rogers acting as hostess, and this letter would have come to you on Kress Library/ HBS stationery. In December 1989, HBS announced new plans for the Kress suite of rooms, a reorganization of special collections, Ruth Rogers resigned, and the library was closed to the public. To my knowledge, the books have not been moved, and plans for the rooms are in legal or bureaucratic limbo. Today --as of spring 1993-- one uses books from the Kress collection in the Archives/Special Collections room of the main Baker Library stacks. That room houses the Kress catalog; a special collections librarian fetches specific Kress books at the user's request. The room is devoted mainly to librarians' work; for most of the day on my one visit, I was the only user of all special collections, with two librarians. The room is neither so pleasing to the eye nor so quiet as the old carpeted Kress library (some advice: take ear plugs). I knew what few books I wanted to read, so I did not put the librarian to a vigorous workout or the system to a severe test. The two locations are quite close as the neutrino flies, but a 15 minute round trip as the librarian strolls --separated by an elevator plus numerous stairs, the main circulation room, and the spacious main lobby of the building. The Kress Seminar retains the name. Prepared by Paul Wendt