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This issue of the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA) highlights thought-provoking articles, interesting book reviews, and timely columns.In their paper "Ensuring access to consumer health information pamphlets at Capital Health", Penny Logan and Eleanor King provide an excellent description of a major project they embraced to ensure patients receive the required educational information.Trish Chatterley, who contributed the feature "The Flower Report: Libraries without walls -(almost) 20 years later", is to be commended for accepting the challenge to update the often referenced 1987 article by M.A. Flower."Direct to you: innovative information services to support nurses' continuing competence in Manitoba" is the title of the paper written by Lisa Demczuk, Analyn Cohen Baker, Christine Shaw-Daigle, and Melissa Raynard.The authors describe an innovative program that benefits both nurses and hospital libraries.In their article "Availability of electronic libraries in the health sciences in the Arabian Gulf region", Karen Neves and Hakin Bishawi highlight and document the library services and programs in the Arabian Gulf region.Three books were reviewed for this issue: The Accidental Library Manager (reviewed by Elyse Pike), Creating Database-Backed Library Web Pages (reviewed by Jackie MacDonald), and New Directions in Reference (reviewed by Jeff Mason).Susan Murray's "Consumer health information" column helps health information professionals stay current with the latest

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