“As an academic accrediting body, the American Library Association’s voice should at least be acknowledged when one of only 52 library programs in the country is threatened,” Brey-Casiano commented in a statement released October 15. “Multiple letters from the ALA and other concerned library agencies have gone unanswered, and we still do not know why the state’s only library program is being cut.”
“Enrollment in CAU SLIS is up 29%, and the school has nearly 100% placement rates,” Brey-Casiano said. “There must be a way to ensure library education continues in Georgia, and we would like to meet and discuss these options. If the administration and board won’t hear us, how can we be sure every avenue has been exhausted? Librarians will not be silent.”
About 75 people attended a town hall meeting the evening of October 14 in the Virginia Lacy Jones Hall of CAU’s Robert W. Woodruff Library where supporters announced a new effort to raise funds for one of the only two accredited library schools in historically black colleges and universities in the United States.
Posted October 15, 2004.