ALA President Leslie Burger to speak on EPA Library closings at National Advisory Council meeting

On December 14 2006, ALA President Leslie Burger will speak at a meeting of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology on the impact of Environmental Protection Agency library closings. The $2 million budget cut that brings about these closings - initially proposed by the EPA and included in President Bush's budget proposals for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 - reduces the 35-year-old EPA Library Network's budget by 80 percent and forces closure of several regional libraries