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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Libraries Face Funding Uncertainty

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials are proposing to cut funding by 80% for the agency's national library network, a system that supports the research needs of thousands of EPA staff scientists and enforcement personnel, environmental biologists and ecologists in academia and industry, and members of the general public.

"The libraries are a good resource," said Fred Stoss, associate librarian for biological and environmental sciences and mathematics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. "Closing down the library network will have great ramifications for EPA staff scientists and policy analysts," he told The Scientist.

via The Scientist Website. The complete article By Ted Agres is available on the magazine's website. http://www.thescientist.com/news/display/23221/
NEWS Budget cuts imperil EPA library system
Research database, access to documents may be curtailed in Fiscal 2007 budget proposal
[Published 10th March 2006 04:37 PM GMT]

Posted by Allison Level on March 29, 2006 01:00 PM |

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