Progress on Library Cuts

We then heard a report from Robert Moore-Jones on the recommendations made by the Library Action Committee. The Committee, he said, felt that any direct action at this stage would only alienate further the University authorities. Instead the Committee proposed two actions:

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That the Education Officer and VUWSA executive members do some research on student feeling and student use of the Library and make submissions to the University Council with a view to effecting the withdrawal of the cutbacks in hours

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That the Education Officer and SRC make plans for direct action to be implemented should the submissions fail. Robert made the point that submissions about the Library cuts had been thrown out by the last Professorial Board meeting because they had no facts about Library use to back them up. The above two proposals were put as motions, and after objection from one person who felt we should only ask for the Library to be open on Friday nights during exams rather than taken an all-or-nothing attitude, the motions were passed.