The War on Science Continues, EPA Libraries Threatened by Bush Budget

Press release:

"Under President Bush’s proposed budget, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is slated to shut down its network of libraries that serve its own scientists as well as the public, according to internal agency documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In addition to the libraries, the agency will pull the plug on its electronic catalog which tracks tens of thousands of unique documents and research studies that are available nowhere else."

• Impact of the EPA library system cuts (pdf) 
• Library services on the chopping block (pdf)
• Staff and budget cuts, library-by-library (pdf)

Hat tip to beSpecific for calling attention to this very important story.

Mark Giangrande, DePaul Law Libary