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I n  t h e  

ACRL, along with other American library 
organizations, public interest groups, and 
patient advocacy organizations, has been ac­
tively working to support the recent National 
Institutes of Health (NIH) proposal to make 
the results of NIH­funded research accessible 
through PubMed Central. This month’s Schol­
arly Communication article provides an FAQ 
written by Prudence Adler of the Association 
of Research Libraries that answers some com­
mon questions about the proposal. 

Comments on the proposal are being 
accepted by NIH through November 16 at 
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/public_access 
/add.htm. ACRL members are encouraged 
to express their support during this public 
comment period. 

As you know, ACRL is preparing for its 
April 2005 National Conference in Minneapo­

lis. This issue includes an article on the thriving 
theater scene in the Minneapolis­St. Paul area, 
which promises to offer many opportunities 
for entertainment during the conference. 

If you’ve been thinking about applying for 
ACRL’s 2005 Immersion Program, you’ll ben­
efit from the brief article, Being Immersed (p. 
602), which shares feedback from attendees of 
the 2004 program. The deadline for applying 
for Immersion ’05 is December 6. 

The revised “Guidelines for distance li­
brary services,” which was approved by the 
ACRL Board of Directors at the ALA Annual 
Conference in June, is published in this issue. 
It is also available, along with all other ACRL 
standards and guidelines, at www.ala.org/ala 
/acrl/acrlstandards/standardsguidelines.htm. 

—Stephanie Orphan, Editor­in­chief 
sorphan@ala.org 

574 / C&RL News  November 2004 

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