UC Berkeley’s troubled system of two dozen libraries will receive a yearly infusion of cash under a new plan that is nothing short of a rescue mission for the intellectual centerpiece of the great university. The plan will pull in about $6 million a year in new money from a variety of sources, some of it still undetermined… The Library lost 12 percent of its budget during the recession, even as such rivals as the University of Michigan augmented their stacks and staff. In 2012, UC Berkeley asked faculty members to make a decision: Did they prefer to close 16 of the libraries or just 10, with fewer librarians for those that remained? Faculty just said no.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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