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Volume 5, Issue 15 '- ©Metropress December 8, 1982
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by Michael Ocrant
Faced with new state-legislated budget cuts, the Auraria Library is proposing to eliminate one of three po~ible services. ~ In an open meeting held Fri.,_ day, Library Director Patricia Senn Breivik, said the amount of cuts, expected to total $225,000 has made it necessary to quickly decide where the facility should ~hold down operating costs. The meeting was held to provide students, faculty and staff an opportunity to ask-questions and voice opinions. 1.. With increased student populations and more public usage, service demands at the library have risen sharply over the past two years. Several people, including a lUCD student government representative and a faculty member, stated that the library should p~ on expenses to non- _,. students in the form of a user's ~ .fee, instead of eliminating ser- ~0 •
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that the library is -run with tax dollars allocated by the state. Agreeing with an earlier statement made by an MSC faculty member, she said that anyone interested in seeing a larger budget base for the library should begin by contacting his or her state representative, ·a nd by lobbying for more funds to be allocated for higher education. ·
A CCD student government spend supplemental enrollment representative said that the.addi- funds that come from increased tional costs created by budget cuts registrations. The library did not should be paid for by students receive a full share of these funds through a raise in enrollment from the ·previous spring fees. This view was ·harshly semester, Breivik said, because the institutions s~w other criticized by several students. The budgeting problem has priorities for spending the money, been further aggravated by new which was subsequently lost from rules, which have given each the library's budgeting base for AHEC school more flexibility to all future years. . Furthermore, the library must now purchase equipment with funds coming from its base budget, where previously capital expenditures were funded separately. Another $74,000 was "lost" when the _library took control of ad~inistering the Media Center in July of 1981. "CCD controlled the capital expenditure funds," Breivik said. "The library assumed these funds woulc! be tacked onto tae general operating budget, but the money simply disappeared." In addition to eliminating services, and the actual cause of service ~urtailments, some full-time
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