Thursday, March 18, 2010

Cuts in State Funding to New Jersey Academic Libraries will be Disastrous

We received a memo yesterday from Norma Blake, State Librarian, reporting deep cuts in funding to New Jersey Libraries. The details may be found at http://www.web2learning.net/archives/3663

The NJIT library will affected through the loss of funding for Business Source Premier, Academic Search Premier and interlibrary loan services. If the Faculty Library Committee prioritizes those databases, other resosurces will have to be cut. We will soon have a vacancy for a reference librarian. It appears that this position will not be filled in the forseeable future.

Hopefully, these deep budget cuts can be at least partially rescinded.

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