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Chronicle article regarding the closing of Berkeley's anthropology library

  • 1.  Chronicle article regarding the closing of Berkeley's anthropology library

    Posted May 08, 2023 09:20 AM

    Hi all,

    Last week I was alerted by Jill Conte that an Op Ed had been published in the Chronicle regarding the closely of UC Berkeley's anthropology library.  I thought it would be of interest to those of us in ANSS that had not seen it yet!

    Opinion | The Fight Over a Berkeley Library Is a Fight for the Future of Higher Ed

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    Opinion | The Fight Over a Berkeley Library Is a Fight for the Future of Higher Ed
    Today, graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley are occupying the anthropology library to protest the university's decision to close it. Administrators, while simultaneously investing more than $500 million in a new data-sciences center, say they cannot afford to keep it open. This is no local fight.
    View this on The Chronicle of Higher Education >


    Best,
    Ilka



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    Ilka Datig
    Head of Instruction and Outreach
    Nazareth College
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  • 2.  RE: Chronicle article regarding the closing of Berkeley's anthropology library

    Posted May 09, 2023 10:34 AM

    The planned closing and the student protest against the closure was also covered in the NY Times. (link is a gift article)



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    Juliann Couture
    Social Sciences Librarian
    University of Colorado Boulder
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