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  8. Let's keep our libraries intact 1

    So libraries are throwing out books to make way for e-learning ("Libraries dump 2 million volumes", November 16)? A squeeze on library space also comes from the research assessment exercise-generated...

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  9. Let's keep our libraries intact 2

    The fact that that 2 million books and journals are thrown out of British universities each year is appalling, as is the fact that academics do not raise any protest, given that library materials are...

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  10. Let's keep our libraries intact 3

    My assertion that "researchers regard printed resources as less useful than electronic ones" is a finding of a survey commissioned by the Consortium of Research Libraries and the Research Information...

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  11. Let's keep our libraries intact 4

    The news that libraries are dumping 2 million items a year neatly solves the problem of the next research assessment exercise. I hereby propose "skip-based assessment" as the way forward. Academics...

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  12. Ask all to the table

    Although there was concern among some at the University and College Union special conference on single-table bargaining about giving up the old rights to separate bargaining, as your report rightly...

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  13. I deeply disagree

    Roland Jackson, chief executive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, suggests that "the public's views are based on a deeper set of values" ("Research: society has right to say...

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  14. Pension robbery

    It is unnecessary to scrap a good, working final-salary pension scheme (Letters, November 9). It is employers who want to shift the burden of costs onto the employee, just as private-sector employers...

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  15. Who's got my dosh?

    If an average academic earns £42,000 ("Average academics' pay moves ahead to £42K", November 16) and I, as a very much above-average academic (evidence can be supplied) earn significantly less, could...

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