Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h464J9U09140; Tue, 6 May 2003 00:19:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 00:19:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <45D41B54.328AF7E5.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:335] ERIC: CHALLENGE X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 2904 Lines: 53 Dear Friends, Last Friday I checked the email and found many others had been responding re ERIC while I was working on other things. I am also paying attention to Jackie's suggestion that this isn't really the right venue for advocacy. However,I did say I would put something up, even though I missed my Friday deadline, and so here it is. 1) Go to www.saveeric.org for a letter template and additional information. 2) My own letter follows. I wll be sending (faxing) copies to Senator Kerry and Rep. Capuano, also. **** Senator Edward M. Kennedy 315 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-2101 Dear Senator Kennedy, May 5, 2003 Please stop an educational debacle by CANCELLING the proposed elimination of major services provided to graduate students, professors, researchers, administrators and policy makers, by ERIC, The Educational Resoruces Information Center. May 9, 2003, is the deadline for public comment on the Draft Statement of Work (SOW) for ERIC. Please contact Secretary of Education Rod Paige and request CANCELLATION of the proposed changes. ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)) has been a going concern since 1966. It provides education libraries and thousands of educators with the following: 1) A database with a million+ abstracts of education-related documents nad journal articles. The documents and journal articles aare available through ERIC itself or through library collections. 2) Reproduction of educational documents and written Digests, brief, invaluable, research syntheses of current educational topics. All this happens through 16 ERIC Clearinghouses staffed by respected scholars with substantive knowledge of the field and particular educational topics, as well as through hundreds of professional libraries. Under the Draft Statement of Work (SOW): 16 ERIC Clearinghouses would be consolidated to one, experts in 16 educational fields would be replaced by websites, the ERIC database would shrink, there would be no more republished documents or Digests. This wholesale housecleaning would decimate the amount and quality of educational material available to educational professionals. Thousands of edfucators and policy makers rely on ERIC as it is--generous in scope, easy for personal access, staffed by knowledgeable professionals. Please don't let this happen! Inform Education Secretary Rod Paige of the potentially harmful consequences for educational research and knowledge dissemination in this shrikage of a widely accepted educatinal resource, ERIC, the Educational Resources Information Center. Thank you for your help and consideration of this educationally critical issue. Sincerely, Andrea Wilder, ED.D Azadoutioun Foundation 12 Arlington Street Cambridge, MA 02140 cc. Rod.Paige@ed.gov, Fax 202-401-0596 cc: Jeff.C.Halsted@ed.gov, Fax 202 718-9817
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