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Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:07:19 -0600
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Subject:        I contacted Research Triangle EPA Library and they confirmed this
Date:   Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:58:35 -0500
From:   Frank Lopresti <[log in to unmask]>
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note sent out by Michael Halpern from Scientific Integrity Program

"**The EPA Closes Its Libraries, Destroys Documents**
Dear Carolyn,
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun closing its
nationwide network of scientific libraries, effectively preventing EPA
scientists and the public from accessing vast amounts of data and...."

The librarian I spoke to said regional libraries are being closed.
They are "attempting" to digitize the data before closing these
libraries ...???

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