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...After Coleman addressed the Faculty, half a dozen professors and Andrew M. McGee ’05 spoke on the importance of the Library, emphasizing the need to upgrade its operations...
Those expenses, Coleman explained, include paying for licenses to academic websites as well as training librarians to work with digital sources...
...Coleman also noted that Google’s digitization project does not involve fragile materials, adding another reason why the restoration of the library’s collections is a “critical” priority—the very materials most in need of preservation cannot go digital...
...result of this year’s budget cuts, several restoration workers have been laid off, and the renovated restoration facility inside Widener Library now operates at 50 percent of its capacity, Coleman said...
...Coleman also said that as a result of the dollar’s weakness in international markets, the Library’s acquisition of materials abroad has become considerably more expensive. The cost of materials from Europe rose by 41 percent between 2000 and 2004, according to a June 2004 letter from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Library Committee to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby...