Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries

PASCAL Financial Planning for FY 2010-11 Rick Moul - Thursday, 22 July 2010

PASCAL has endured significant upheaval since 2008 when state funding for programming was reduced by 90%. While South Carolina’s academic library community lost resources and momentum, they did gain increased cohesion and clarity of purpose, and recent developments have placed our core programming on footing that is as reasonably secure as anything in this turbulent economy.

PASCAL libraries have dealt ...Read more

Deans Approve Emergency Funding for Nursing Resources Rick Moul - Thursday, 03 September 2009

PASCAL will open negotiations with vendors of key electronic resources for nursing in light of the vote taken by South Carolina deans and directors of nursing programs to provide funding for one year’s subscription restoration for nursing research and teaching materials. The vote was based on a projection of the costs and benefits for restoring the package of resources previously made ...Read more

PASCAL CAOs Approve An Emergency Funding Plan for FY 2009-10 Rick Moul - Thursday, 03 September 2009

[The following is the text of an update sent to the Chief Academic Officers of PASCAL member institutions.] On May 12, an ad hoc committee of chief academic officers from both public and independent colleges and universities distributed an emergency funding plan for the Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL) in order to stabilize the essential core database ...Read more

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