There were plenty of responses to my post yesterday and I appreciate all of the time you all spent offering some suggestions. I will try to address most of them. Jo Arnspiger suggested website subscriptions. We do have a handful of subscriptions; we have a wonderful state library that takes care of the Ancestry Library Edition for all the county libraries. (Wyoming is a bit different as our public libraries are run by the county government, not the city as in many other places.) I have procured subscriptions for Newspapers.com and Fold3. I'm looking at findmypast.com but would like someone with some experience to indicate if it is a valuable resource. Honey Ryan suggested an oral history section. This is on my list to work on. We have a substantial oral history collection that needs a comprehensive finding aid put together and an official residence in our library. It is one of many items not yet properly catalogued in our collections. There is a lot of work to do with this aspect of our collections. Unfortunately, we are limited with staffing and anything with lots of labor involved is on the back burner. ELiss Scalise Powell suggested archival materials or ephemeral collections. Archival materials are on the radar. I have lots of pamphlets that need to be put in jackets so they can be in the primary collection. We do have some supplies from a large archival project several years ago.I also have an endowment that is used for archival materials. Melissa Barker spoke about archival cases and presenting items. We do have some display cases and have many items on display. However, a couple of the ones we have are inadequate in my opinion as they take up a lot of space but do not have much viewing area. I'm currently using some lockable glass-enclosed bookshelves to display many items. However, those shelves will need to be used for books rather soon. Joanne Shackford Parkes mentioned finding aids. This is a great idea and I have spent a lot of time thinking about this. My own experiences with research have been exponentially more successful because of finding aids. I'm all for it, but again, labor. I'm also having trouble getting volunteers that are versed in computers and understand a lot of the technical aspects of a research room. Joanne also suggested local histories, I am trying to get a lot more regional histories. I'm in north central Wyoming and so we service outlying communities, even some in Montana. Many of the families have a similar migration story with homesteads, wagon trains and the like. We have a considerable amount of these but know there are more to be had. One of our "go to" books is a community history from 1983. Danny Klein talked about items that need preservation. Oh, boy. This is a huge one. We have a map collection that needs overhauled--the works: Inventoried, flattened and given at least a modest bit of cataloguing, We have approximately 4.000 maps that have some inventory done but need a lot of attention. A colleague was done from Montana last week and suggested looking into a grant for a college intern to take on the project for school. It would be a tremendous start. The problem with our library, and the rest of Wyoming is that our libraries are funded through mineral royalties. Our staff has been cut to bare bones in terms of hours. Being a "boom or bust" state, we are entering a period of extreme uncertainty. Coal is no longer king and, in my opinion, it will not rebound with nearly the same vigor following past busts. Our mindset is to stay afloat and to ride out the trough and hope to catch the next wave when the time comes. Thank you all. I have always appreciated this list and the wonderful people willing to mentor. Your friend in the stacks, Kim Ostermyer