Relocation, Relocation, Relocation

Inside Higher Ed
By Colleen Flaherty
February 28, 2018

Real estate on the University of Texas at Austin campus is scarce -- so scarce that the College of Fine Arts and the University of Texas Libraries have already moved tens of thousands of books, journals, music scores, CDs and other works from Austin's Fine Arts Library off-site with little input from the faculty.  That, along with a proposal to keep culling and moving the collection, has many professors up in arms.

"The declared aim is to move libraries into the 21st century, and nobody's opposing that here," said Thomas G. Palaima, Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor in Classics and director for Austin's program in Aegean scripts and prehistory.  "But don't move it into the 21st century by destroying a resource that's been built up over decades and decades."

Read the full article at the Inside Higher Ed website here.