Mid-year budget reductions

The Laboratory Director has begun an ambitious initiative to reduce the cost of doing business for the remainder of FY'04. The Research Library, along with other G&A; organizations, has been asked to support this effort by implementing mid-year budget reductions. We have made the difficult decision to suspend new book purchases for the remainder of FY'05, as well as postponing computer equipment expenditures and freezing staff positions. To minimize the impact upon Library users in meeting these budget constraints, our priorities reflect our desire to maintain an excellent journal collection, which therefore required other difficult trade-offs to be made. We believe this course of action will maintain our excellent journal collection and the electronic delivery of journal articles and other digital materials to the user's desktop.