Comment on FR Doc # E6-11763

As an author, researcher and historian, I protest the closing of night research at the National Archives. The several nights a week that currently is allowed is not enough. Now you want to take that away. I live in Los Angeles. My books are about history and written for popular consumption - the great mass of people in our nation. I must write them on the meager funds book publishers give me in advance. Usually I have enough money to make one or two trips across country to College Park, stay about two weeks, and then have to leave - no more. That's all the resources I have. It is hard enough to do adequate research on that limited schedule. Now you want to restrict access to historians like myself even more. This is a serious problem. Most historian-authors are in the same boat I am. The books are going to suffer and thus citizens are not going to get what they would have before. This along with Freedom of Information Act restrictions recently is another move that will restrict information to the people the government represents.I hope you will have the wisdom to reconsider and at least keep the archives open at night if not more nights than they were before. I am a member of the Author's Guild and Writers Guild West. My works can be viewed at my personal website, www.robertkwilcox.com or at my Author's Guild site. comment