The Politics of NCLIS

摘要

President bush's budget for fiscal 2008 went to Capitol Hill on February 5. It included a recommendation to "consolidate" the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) into the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Although few others seem to care how this last gasp of NCLIS turns out, current and former members and leaders of the commission have voted resolutions and found other ways to resist the proposal from the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB). They see consolidation as the equivalent of "doing away with NCLIS," as Bob Willard, a commissioner for four years and executive director of NCLIS for six, put it.