Chapel Phil24 Jan 2022

UNC Libraries Face Huge Budget Cuts

In our first episode of the 2021-2022 school year, Andy, Samad, and Max discuss the ethics behind keeping academia locked behind paywalls. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a number of financial issues for the university, but why are our JSTOR subscriptions are the first to go ?

Tools that are vital to the education of students, support of staff with research in the works, and just general fairness of access of academia to the public seems like a right, not a privilege. Don't we students, paying to attend a top research university, have the right to access the very works conducted by our university? Or, can we see beyond the present struggles and see this may be a necessary evil to ensure the fiscal stability and long-term health of the UNC system?

Resources:

The Daily Tar Heel report on the cuts: https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/10/opinion-library-budget-cuts

Utilitarianism and the long-run fiscal stability: Gary Woller (BYU Professor). “An Overview by Gary Woller.” A Forum on the Role of Environmental Ethics. June 1997. pp. 10

Collections FAQ: https://library.unc.edu/collections/faq-about-collections-reductions/

Budget cuts op-ed: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2405890223744/op-ed-library-budget-cuts-are-unacceptable-and-unnecessary

Consequences are being felt already: https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2012/01/10/how-budget-cuts-are-affecting-unc-health-sciences-library/

WUNC reports on the cuts: https://www.wunc.org/education/2021-10-06/unc-chapel-hill-plans-cut-5-million-libraries-funding-priorities

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