Resource Management and Planning: As interest in historic preservation has grown, cultural resource management issues have assumed a higher profile in the socioeconomic agenda. An increase in the volume of preservation planning activities has produced a growing body of case study material that can contribute to the quality and effectiveness of cultural resource management. Unfortunately, limited, cumbersome access to the knowledge developed through these preservation planning experiences is a severe impediment to assimilating this knowledge in broader CRM decision processes. The application of contemporary technologies such as geographical information systems (GIS) can greatly enhance the data manipulation process necessary to the formulation of resource protection and management guidelines. However, planners and administrators need a more effective means of integrating the immense database that these tools produce into the whole of the preservation information base. Rapid access to relevant information concerning existing archaeological and architectural resources is fundamental to the shaping of successful cultural resource management strategies for both the rural and urban environment. Efficient information acquisition, processing, and retrieval has significant implications for preservation policy delineation, project feasibility analysis, and maintenance management. Through an information paradigm that integrates text, image, numeric, and audio data, preservation planners can focus on information synthesis and decision simulations rather than data gathering. Resource Management Needs Design and Construction Integrated Planning