The University of Illinois budget has become the latest gob of spackling to be slathered across the state of Illinois’ gaping $5 billion budget hole. Libraries at all three campuses, which have already seen one round of cuts, will have to trim even more from their FY 2004 budget, and possibly see a recision in funds from the FY 2003 budget. The library’s math library was recently closed and the current cuts, if as deep as expected, will mean the closing of school’s art and architecture library. More from this LJ blurb.
The libraries at the school’s Urbana-Champaign campus hold over 9 million volumes, making it one of the top ten largest libraries in the nation, and the largest publicly-supported university research library in the world.
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