Faculty Object to Shared San Jose Library

Goldberg, Beverly, American Libraries

The passage of a $9.5-billion education bond measure by California voters on November 3 (see p. 14-16), some $86 million of which was earmarked for capital improvements to San Jose State University, has brought approval one step closer for a plan to build a joint university-main public library facility on campus (AL, Oct., p. 21). But even as the Academic Senate was preparing to send their own advisory vote to the city council in early December, a group of concerned SJSU faculty members were trying to convince their colleagues of the plan's inimicability to their academic lives.

More than 200 students and faculty attended a campus rally October 14 to show their opposition to …

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Publication information: Article title: Faculty Object to Shared San Jose Library. Contributors: Goldberg, Beverly - Author. Magazine title: American Libraries. Volume: 29. Issue: 11 Publication date: December 1998. Page number: 21+. © 1984 American Library Association. COPYRIGHT 1998 Gale Group.

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