We have completed the review of the paper for the IR 6.0 conference. If you have submitted a paper, panel, roundtable or workshop, you should have received an email by now with an acceptance or rejection. We received around 325 single paper submissions of which we have accepted approximately 220 papers. In addition we have accepted 17 multi-paper panels, 7 roundtables, and 6 workshops (half and full-day). Acceptances were based on the reviews submitted by the team of reviewers -- thanks all for a job well done! We determined acceptance by sorting the papers by the recommendations given by reviewers. Recommendations were "Accept", "Probably Accept", "Probably Reject", "Reject". We sorted the papers to determine a top set with an automatic acceptance, and a comparable set with an unequivocal rejection. This left, of course, a set with mixed reviews. We made our way through the middle range reviewing papers and reviews of the papers to make final decisions. In general, of papers accepted, the recommendations toward acceptance will have outweighed those toward rejection. Now, the task of organizing who talks when! Looking forward to seeing lots of you at the conference in October. We will be working on the program organization, and will keep you posted on our progress. /Caroline Haythornthwaite Program Chair IR 6.0 ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820