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Your Opinion Counts! (1Jun94)
(from the Director's Office, NOAO Newsletter No. 38, 1 June 1994)

As you have seen in the AAS Newsletter and the last edition of the NOAO
Newsletter, a review is in progress to determine strategies for support
of ground-based optical/infrared observing facilities, with particular
attention to the role of NOAO.  The review panel is chaired by Dick
McCray, and is making an energetic effort to understand the needs of
observers and the costs of running both national observatories and
those with other non-federal funding support.  The committee may
consider such issues as the balance of NSF support to NOAO and the
instrumentation and research grants program, the way in which
instrumentation is developed for public and private observatories, and
the mode of operation and optimal mix of publicly accessible
facilities.

It is critically important to this process that you make your voice
heard.  The panel has solicited comments from the general community of
astronomers through an e-mail bulletin board.  A small response will
tend to be biased toward the most vocal proponents and opponents.  A
large response will be much more reflective of the general experience
of astronomers who use NOAO and other facilities.  Please send your
thoughts to oirpanel@jila.colorado.edu.

Richard Green

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