Due to what is being called a “critical staff shortage” the American Museum of Natural History Library’s Speciall Collections are closed to the public.[thanks carol]
Category: libcrisis
for just $24 a year, you can help Georgians continue to read Field and Stream!
“Where did the magazines go? How can I help?” Athens-Clarke County library system is sponsoring an adopt-a-magazine program to try to maintain its magazine collection after having to drop 150 subscriptions due to budget cuts. [thanks katia]
there are NO library jobs… I repeat….
Placement stats from ALAs report on Midwinter. Jobs down almost 40%, job seekers up almost 40%.
“Jobs: 196 (The highest number, 31, was for general reference positions.) This compared to 318 jobs last year in New Orleans. Job-seekers: 293 (The highest number, 203, interested in reference positions.) This compared to 214 job-seekers in New Orleans.” [thanks tj]
one big U’s approach to the serials crisis
Miss Eli shares a Stanford University Libraries memo regarding strategies for trying to staunch the hemorrhaging serials budget.
“Libraries are encouraged to scrutinize the pricing of journals and to drop those where pricing decisions have made them disproportionately expensive compared to their educational and research value. Special attention should be paid to for-profit journals in general and to those published by Elsevier in particular.”
who is the villain here? serials mess
University of Hawai’i library suffers horrible budget cuts to their serials budgets. Apparently the serials budget is inflating at faster than teh rate of the cost of living, substantially. [thanks brandon]