Like other Cal State Fullerton entities, and indeed the entire state of California, the Pollak Library is coping with large budget reductions and mandatory employee furloughs. Although the library has attempted to minimize the impact of these cuts on the quality of the library’s collections and services, inevitably these reductions in budget and staff time result in changes in the daily operations of the library. In an effort to keep the campus community apprised of those changes, University Librarian, Richard Pollard has written a letter (.pdf) detailing the changes and explaining the rationale behind them. The areas of the library currently impacted by the reductions include library open hours, reduced library licensing and purchases of books, journals, and databases, changes to the number of interlibrary loan requests that can be active at one time, and a reduction in services on official campus furlough days.  Read the memo (.pdf) for details of these policy changes.

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