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| | Library seeks a little help from its Friends |
 | | Most of the library’s facilities were built to house print-based media, and with funds from the campaign, the main Library building and the Undergraduate Library will be renovated to better meet contemporary needs. |
 | | During the past 20 years, the library’s purchasing power has been eroded from a combination of factors, including dwindling state support for higher education, double-digit price increases caused by inflation, and general price hikes as well as the shrinking value of the U.S. dollar against the Euro when purchasing publications from Western Europe. |
 | | $300 for the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library to purchase “Trip Generation,” 7th edition, a three-volume reference work on transportation planning, to benefit research and teaching in urban and regional planning, landscape architecture and transportation engineering. |
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