You’d think the first thing a university would cut during a budget crisis would be some of its money-losing sports – starting with say baseball. Not at UO, where the administration is cutting the librarians. A snippet from the well documented website they’ve put together in response, here: https://www.uolibrariansunited.com/ Like…
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No wonder Brad Shelton is running a $10M deficit. It’s not like this is something important like a new Duck offensive co-ordinator. In fact, according to the glossy brochure put out by WittKieffer search consultants Suzanne Teer, Philip Tang, and Jessica Herrington at [email protected], who are charging us $150K or…
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Shelley Harshe Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 11:44 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: lib-staff: Mark Watson named interim dean of UO Libraries This message is being sent on behalf of Provost and Senior Vice President Jayanth Banavar. Dear UO Libraries Faculty and Staff, I…
The link is here, courtesy of an anonymous correspondent. Duck athletics used to contribute $50K a year to the library. With football revenue increasing so quickly it’s getting hard to spend it all on coach’s salaries, now seems like a good time for Library Dean Adriene Lim to hit up Athletic Director Rob…
MEMORANDUM Date: April 6, 2016 To: All UO Colleges, Schools, and Departments From: Adriene Lim, Dean of Libraries Subject: Collections Reduction Review, 2016-2017 The UO Libraries must prepare for cuts to our collections budget of approximately $565,000 in FY 2016/2017. This figure represents an actual cut of $115,000 in our…
6/15/2013: Effective 3/31/2014, national search for a replacement to begin over the summer, thanks to several readers for passing along the email.