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A Vision for UCB Library Services Under the Specter of Austerity

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U17 Bay Area Chapter members came together to issue as statement against austerity in the Berkeley Library. As student enrollment continues to increase, campus funding remains stagnant, and decades of neoliberal ideology have eroded the public good, the Berkeley campus faces acute pressures to maintain excellent education and research conditions while library workers are expected to do more with less. 

This statement is a call for reflection and action for the whole campus. We also know that the struggles here at Berkeley are not unique and academic libraries around the world are facing these same pressures.  

Here is the whole statement: A Vision for UCB Library Services Under the Specter of Austerity