When she asked me to join this panel, Catherine suggested three subjects she would like me to comment on. The first is how scholarship to date has benefited from theatre collections; the second is the need for theatre collections as separate entities; and the third is what kinds of material should be collected in the future, particularly to avoid oversights in previous collecting policies. At the risk of telling you what you already know, and without pretending to speak for most scholars, let me first make some generalizations about how scholars have benefited from existing collections.