Houston Baptist University: Library Likely to Lose 80 Percent of Database Funds
From The Collegian (Houston Baptist University Newspaper):
Library directors from around the state gathered in Austin Sept. 26-27 to plan for the changes that many Texas libraries will face beginning next fiscal year due to the loss of more than 80 percent of the funding that grants members access to electronic databases.
The $8 million provided by a biennial grant through TexShare, a service of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, has been reduced to approximately $1.5 million under the Texas Legislature’s House Bill 1.
Passed in May, the bill will instate the budget cuts beginning in the 2012-13 fiscal year, scaling back database access for 667 higher education, medical and public libraries.
Filed under: Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, Public Libraries
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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