Our storage facilities have been substantially reorganized in the past few months. The Library Collection was moved from a dark 15×15' room to one 10×25' with lights (and an aisle!). The office files and back issue storage have been moved into a 7×25' unit, again with lights. The [[Museum|Museum Collection]] remains in a 15×15' room, packed quite solidly, awaiting someone with enough concern to begin conservation (and deaccession) efforts. These changes make only a small difference in our expenses, but they greatly aid staff's ability to access materials and respond to requests, especially now that the materials aren't stuffed in various rooms of their house.
Three of our four review committees, [[Heraldry Committee|Heraldry]], [[Chivlary Chivalry Committee|Chivalry]], and [[Royalty & Nobility Committee|Royalty & Nobility]], all now have active chairmen, and all are reviewing submissions and making recommendations to the [[Board]] in a timely fashion. It will take a bit of time for all of them to firm up their procedures and achieve the sort of response time we all want, but their clear dedication to their duties is most satisfying. We hope that the [[Genealogy Committee]] will soon find an active Chairman and join them.
We do have some research committees, primarily the [[Descents from Antiquity Study Group|Descents from Antiquity]] and [[Family of Augustans Study Group|Family of Augustans]], which have been moving slowly, but are far from dead. And even those many committees that are presently dormant are but that … they can be reactivated at the whim of a single willing member.