Preservation News Monitor: The amount of information ("news") which may have an impact on the management of a cultural site as a multidimensional resource is immense. Not only might local political, economic, and environmental circumstances affect the integrity of the resource, but distant events could also have a significant impact. The preservation news monitor (PNM) is an electronic news network which will have access to a global news and information base. The preservation news monitor will filter these accumulated media resources, gathering those which will impact preservation concerns. The PNM system will have national, regional, state, and local nodes to facilitate access to the layers of information appropriate to the context of CRM needs and responsibilities. An on-line retrieval system will also be installed for each publicly administered (national and state) cultural site. The system will constantly monitor the global information base for events, research, technologies, case studies, and management policies relevant to the specific context of the cultural resources within each administrative unit. The system will facilitate the extraction of knowledge from the global information base by filtering massive volumes of information to ensure that the "news" necessary to the informed administration of specific CRM responsibilities reaches the appropriate personnel. The individually tailored PNM filter will automatically download customized information to the desktop workstation of each of the personnel involved in the CRM process. System users will also be able to access and navigate the information base at any level to retrieve or annotate information nodes. Users will have full discretionary control over the techniques of database grazing, browsing, and hunting. Information Glut Integrated Planning Information vs. Negative Information