Dear FAU Community,

As you know, the University is undergoing major reductions in its budget, which will probably be a multi-year phenomenon, and as a part of that we must unfortunately engage in a major reduction to our materials budget.  All areas of the Libraries' collections will be considered for reduction and we will need to identify subscriptions to ongoing products (journals and databases) that we may cancel.  We will be asking for your help over the next few months in identifying those cuts which will do the least damage to our ongoing academic programs.

We recognize the challenges inherent in declaring that anything is expendable but it is simply not realistic to hope to reduce the Libraries’ budget by 10% or more without some major, permanent  adjustments.  We thank you for your cooperation and look forward to working with you to achieve the most satisfactory outcome to this situation.   

The reports listed below have been distributed to the Departments/Programs for prioritization with a due date of April 1, 2009.  Please check back regularly for updates to this site.

William Miller, Dean

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis

International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) - Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses

May 1 Update: At this moment, we still do not know what the state’s and university’s budgets will be, unfortunately. There is some indication that reductions will not be as drastic as feared a month ago. Stay tuned for additional updates.

May 19 Update:  The FAU Libraries is achieving its budget cut by eliminating 5 positions and reducing the Expense budget.  We are still considering cancellations in order to meet inflation increases for subscriptions, anticipate forthcoming budget cuts over the next several years, and enable us to meet critical curricular needs for new resources.

FAU Libraries Subscription Reports