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Thomas said that the Library Task Force review follows several years of declining library resources. Last year, for example, the library faced a 15 percent budget cut, and the system??s largest unit—Harvard College Library—eliminated over 20 staff positions. HCL also eliminated duplicate print subscriptions for digitally available content...
...recommends that the system??the largest at any university in the world—adopt a twenty-first century approach that focuses on greater collaboration with other institutions of higher learning and shift toward more digital purchases, rather than traditional print resources...
Library expenditures grew by 25 percent between 2004 and 2008, and the libraries experienced heavy budget cuts last year after both the University endowment and the dollar fell, leading the Harvard College Library—the largest unit within the system??to seek a $12 million cost reduction...
...addition, the report stated that the library system??composed of 73 disparate entities and 1,200 full-time employees—currently lacks a common organizational structure, and individual libraries are responsible for managing acquisitions...
...health-care debate. While most intuitively understand that a world with universal health insurance would lead to fewer deaths, bankruptcies, and other misfortunes than the status quo, politicians like Grayson who emphasize this fact are dismissed by colleagues as crazy. Those who wish to entrench the current system??or ,perhaps worse, those like Lieberman who are willing to entrench it if to do so serves their own ends—are above reproach. Their opinions are “respected.” Their cravenness is not even a “punishable offense...