(Sudbury – 28 June 2017) LUFA is dismayed at the decline of library funding in the university budget approved by the Board of Governors at its meeting on June 23. \u201cThere is not a penny of new funding for the library,\u201d says LUFA president Jim Ketchen. \u201cInstead, the library\u2019s share of the budget has gone down from 3.6 percent to 3.2 for the coming fiscal year. This places it far below the Ontario university system average of 4 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n
The library has been in a weakened state since 2014, when the decline of the Canadian dollar on international currency markets precipitated a funding crisis. Most of the library\u2019s subscriptions must be paid in US dollars. The result has been cutbacks and freezes, with few books purchased and numerous cancellations of journals and databases.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor three years, the university has turned a deaf ear despite the pleas from professors and students to address this horrible situation,\u201d Ketchen says. \u201cNow, with a 7 percent boost to the materials budget, the administration claims to be addressing it \u2013 but it has come at the expense of staffing. It\u2019s a shell game with \u2018new\u2019 funding created by taking funds from other budgets that are no less essential.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the annual Maclean\u2019s<\/em> survey of Canadian universities, funding for library expenses at Laurentian (including staffing) is already among the lowest in the country. \u201cWe deplore the administration\u2019s shameful neglect of the library,\u201d Ketchen says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Sudbury – 28 June 2017) LUFA is dismayed at the decline of library funding in the university budget approved by the Board of Governors at its meeting on June 23. \u201cThere is not a penny Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lufappul.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}