“Funding Cuts Had ‘Savage Impact’ on National Library of Ireland”
From The Irish Times:
The National Library of Ireland (NLI) is operating with a third of the staffing resources available to national libraries of comparable size in Europe, its annual review says.
The NLI has 86 staff in contrast with the national libraries of (280), Wales (277) and Norway (414).
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The new director Dr Sandra Collins, who took up her position in August, said extra resources could be used to speed up the process of digitisation.
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She said understaffing was a legacy issue. “The NLI is significantly less resourced in terms of workforce and capacity. This is not just a trend that has emerged from the economic downturn. The Library has always worked from a low base in terms of resources.”
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National Library of Ireland 2014 Annual Report
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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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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