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It might be worth mentioning in any request for the consultation document that this is a request made under the Freedom of Information Act - no harm to worrying the authorities that their every move on this will be under scrutiny..... Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim Department of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU Tel 01509-223065 Fax 01509-223053 e mail [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.Wright" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 12:51 PM Subject: Restructuring at Bangor University > The University of Wales Bangor in the UK no longer feel that subject > librarians / academic liaison librarians are needed in the modern > academic library. They have made restructuring proposals which include > removing all bar one of the subject librarians and a tier of the library > management, including the Head of Bibliographic Services. The university > management thinks that technology has 'deskilled' literature searching. > As far as I know, this proposal is unprecedented in the United Kingdom. > > In essence, there will remain 4 professional librarians serving a > 'research-led' university of 8,000 plus FTEs and with 8 library sites. > These will be the university librarian, cataloguing librarian, > acquisitions librarian and Law librarian. > > Has anything like this happened anywhere that you know of? If so, > what have been the effects? We are in a consultation period that > lasts until 25th February and any evidence we can gather to help us in > our fight against these proposals would be warmly welcomed. If you > would like to receive a copy of the consultation document please reply > to Angela Jones-Evans ([log in to unmask]). > > Letters / E-mails of opposition to the decision, and support for those > affected would also be welcome. They can be addressed to: > > Dr Kevin Mundy > Senior Assistant Registrar > University of Wales Bangor > College Road > Bangor > Gwynedd > LL57 2DG > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > > and importantly should also be copied to: > > Angela Jones-Evans > Head of Information Support Group > Unievrsity of Wales Bangor > Main Library > College Road > Bangor > Gwynedd > LL57 2DG > E-mail: [log in to unmask] >