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Smith told The Crimson that the decision not to cut the library budget further was not a direct response to his colleagues’ appeal.
“The hemorrhaging will at least stop, and we can be very grateful for that,” said Thomas, who last week co-authored a letter with over 100 other faculty members to Smith and other University administrators calling for greater library support.
In the past few years, Harvard College Library has been forced to lay off staff members and limit growth in collections, as it seeks to reduce its budget for 2010 by $12 million in spite of increasing costs.
Last month, the report from the Task Force on University Libraries recommended that the university restructure its “labyrinthine” library system and suggested that it could no longer hope to retain a fully comprehensive collection.
But yesterday’s letter reassured faculty that the implementation of task force recommendations would not be associated with continuing cuts to library funding.