diff --git a/collects/schelog/README b/collects/schelog/README
index a5b7156bfa..2fc9397a94 100644
--- a/collects/schelog/README
+++ b/collects/schelog/README
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ certainly not portable any more, and crucially the two macros that cause
 capture of the ! symbol now require uses of the macro to supply the bang, thus
 making them non-capturing.
 
+TODO:
+- pull some part of the docs across from their tex format
+- figure out what to do with the makefile (delete it?)
+- turn more of the implicit test cases into explicit test cases
+- clean up this README file
+- figure out whether there are copyright issues
+
+
                           ...
 
 Schelog is for you if you are interested in any or all
diff --git a/collects/schelog/dialects/dialects-supported.scm b/collects/schelog/dialects/dialects-supported.scm
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e35bc5329..0000000000
--- a/collects/schelog/dialects/dialects-supported.scm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#lang racket
-
-#|;last change: 2003-06-01
-
-bigloo
-gambit
-gauche
-guile
-mitscheme
-mzscheme
-petite
-pscheme
-scheme48
-scm
-scsh
-stk
-sxm
-umbscheme
-|#
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/collects/schelog/dialects/files-to-be-ported.scm b/collects/schelog/dialects/files-to-be-ported.scm
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ea28bc9cb..0000000000
--- a/collects/schelog/dialects/files-to-be-ported.scm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#lang racket
-
-#|schelog.scm
-|#
diff --git a/collects/schelog/dialects/gambit-schelog.scm b/collects/schelog/dialects/gambit-schelog.scm
deleted file mode 100644
index a01f8298aa..0000000000
--- a/collects/schelog/dialects/gambit-schelog.scm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-(declare (standard-bindings) (extended-bindings) (block) (not safe))
-
-;if all your arithmetic is going to be fixnum-only,
-;you might want to
-
-;(declare (fixnum))