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...sought to reduce its budget for 2010 by $12 million, even though expenditures have risen due to the falling dollar and increasing subscription prices. But the letter says Harvard’s libraries have been strained by a “period of neglect” stemming back to the 1990s...
...letter says that there is “much in the [Task Force] report that we can embrace”—it supports centralization of administrative functions, vendors, and information technology—but also outlines serious qualms...
...letter says that the report’s figures and graphs are “seriously misleading” in that they show a steady increase in acquisitions in recent years. But the graphs are distorted by “extra-ordinary” short-term cash infusions and fail to include the decline in funding over previous decades, the letter says...
Other signatories of the letter include University Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., History Professor and Department Chair Lizabeth Cohen, and English Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Marjorie Garber...
Peter Machinist, a signatory of the letter and professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, said that libraries are one of the three major components of the University, along with students and faculty...