A colleague sent me a link to a story in American Libraries that says that the EPA National Library Network Report to Congress calls for the reopening of the four libraries that were closed back in 2006, that they will contain collections, that will be staffed by librarians that will offer reference services and that 1$ million will be spent on this. The report was published after the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee’s hearing in which it was stated that “No library should be closed until its holdings have been effectively cataloged, evaluated, and digitized.” In February, a GAO report said that the EPA library closures were “hasty and ill-considered.”
Now if only something could be done to restore funding to our own Environment Canada libraries.