SLA Sends Letter Opposing Proposed Closing of Sandia National Laboratories Research Library
Special Libraries Association (SLA), a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners, has asked that Sandia National Laboratories reconsider its plans to close their research library due to budget reductions. In a letter to Sandia’s President and Director Thomas Hunter, dated 23 October, SLA called the decision short-sighted and dangerous.
SLA urged Sandia, which for fifty years has been instrumental in the field of nuclear weapons as well as homeland security, intelligence, energy and non-proliferation issues–issues that are vital and contribute to the well-being of this nation–to reconsider its decision and take into account the potentially harmful effects of scientists conducting important research without access to the most up-to-date and relevant information available.
Source: SLA
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