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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 14:39:07 PST
From: erebman@library.Berkeley.EDU (Elisabeth Rebman)
Subject: URGENT-Library School needs your help!

 From: Corliss Lee                    Tue, 2 Feb 93 13:29:37 PST
 To: lauc@ced.berkeley.edu
 Subject: URGENT-Library School needs your help!

 Alumni Association
 UC Berkeley School of Library and Information Studies
 ACTION ALERT

 PLEASE WRITE A LETTER NOW, however brief, and share this
 information with your friends, colleagues, listservers and bulletin
 boards.  Letters are needed by FEBRUARY 17.

 WHAT'S HAPPENING:

 A major UC Berkeley campus committee, the Academic Planning
 Board, will vote February 24 to advise the Chancellor either to (1)
 continue the School and recruit a dean or (2) close the School.  This
 is a critical vote; now is the time to express your support for the
 School!

 CONTACT:

 Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien
 University of California
 Berkeley, CA  94720
 phone (510) 642-7464
 FAX (510) 642-5499

 MESSAGE TO CONVEY:

 -- Value of the library and information profession to the economy,
 to education, to quality of life

 --Importance of the School to California, the West, the nation.

           --Student demand in California exceeds the combined
 capacity of existing programs; fewer programs nationwide create
 added need for Berkeley's

           --Availability of jobs

           --The excellence of the School and its graduates.

           --Importance of School in ensuring diverse library labor force.

 --Need for Berkeley to be at forefront of research libraries and
 information systems, at a time when these are of growing national
 importance.

 --Questionable process:  decision is not the result of a careful
 assessment of community needs and campus strengths.  School is
 targeted because it happened to be undergoing routine periodic
 review.

 --Impact of a negative decision about the School on your support for
 the University and the campus, which hopes to raise $1 billion from
 alumni and business community.

 FOR MORE INFORMATION:

 Mary Jo Levy, President
 SLIS Alumni Association
 (415) 329-2516
 FAX (415) 327-7568
 FAX (408) 924-2701

 Ruth Hafter, Vice President
 SLIS Alumni Association
 (510) 527-1480

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