{"id":413,"date":"2005-03-30T11:33:24","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T16:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=413"},"modified":"2005-03-30T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T16:33:24","slug":"jones-on-library-cuts-in-daily-tar-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/jones-on-library-cuts-in-daily-tar-heel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones on Library Cuts in Daily Tar Heel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took a call last night at 5ish from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\">Daily Tar Heel <\/a>reporter, Greg Steen, about the state budget cuts and how they might affect the Academic Libraries. I did say things about digital access and how with digitization the wealth held in the Libraries are easily accessible to all the citizens of the state especially K-12 students and teachers and of course citizen researchers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2005\/03\/30\/424aa9c32b9e9\">Here&#8217;s the article<\/a> and here&#8217;s what I ended up having said (I actually said all this too):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paul Jones, clinical professor in the School of Information and Library Science and in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, expressed concern that a lack of resources will affect others besides students and professors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One of the strengths of our library has been the outreach to public schools and citizen researchers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When you buy those books, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re investing in knowledge that ripples through the state, not just knowledge in one guy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mind.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Jones said he believes that having to search for resources will distract professors from completing their duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How do you want professors spending their time: trying to finagle ways of getting books or actually reading those books and developing ways of teaching in the classroom?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took a call last night at 5ish from a Daily Tar Heel reporter, Greg Steen, about the state budget cuts and how they might affect the Academic Libraries. I did say things about digital access and how with digitization the wealth held in the Libraries are easily accessible to all the citizens of the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}