FU Community United to Save PASCAL
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This group is for anyone who relies upon PASCAL--the agreement that allows our university access to myriad databases. The money that the State of South Carolina has put into this may soon be pulled, and therefore we may lose many important databases and services. For us as students, PASCAL allows us to compete with students from other institutions and to continue our institution's mission of opening our minds to new ideas and sharing our hearts with the world.

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FU Community United to Save PASCAL
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Common Interest - Beliefs & Causes
Description:
This group is for anyone who relies upon PASCAL--the agreement that allows our university access to myriad databases. The money that the State of South Carolina has put into this may soon be pulled, and therefore we may lose many important databases and services. For us as students, PASCAL allows us to compete with students from other institutions and to continue our institution's mission of opening our minds to new ideas and sharing our hearts with the world.

If you enjoy being able to do... (read more)
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Open: All content is public.

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Please help us contact our state legislators!!! This is how you can have a drastic affect on the policy process. Dr. Bandelin (the head of FU Libraries) gave this to me as a way for YOU to help SAVE PASCAL!!! Please write to:
Representative Chip Limehouse III. He is Chair of the House Ways and Means Higher Education, Tech, and Cultural Budget Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. This committee is working on budget now.

AND

Senator John Courson. He is Chair of the Senate Higher Education Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee.

You can follow the links below which will take you to their photos and biographical information including postal and email addresses.


Representative Harry B. "Chip" Limehouse III

District 110 - Berkeley & Charleston Cos.

[ http://www.scstatehouse.gov/members/bios/1089772596.html ]http://www.scstatehouse.gov/members/bios/1089772596.html


Senator John E. Courson
District 20 - Lexington & Richland Cos.

[ http://www.scstatehouse.gov/members/bios/0422727222.html ]http://www.scstatehouse.gov/members/bios/0422727222.html

A note on the tone of the letter or email -- please be sure to thank them for their support of PASCAL and to express sympathy/understanding about the difficult situation that they face with the budget shortfall this year. Then, share with them how losing PASCAL (its databases and rapid book delivery service) will affect you. Feel free to cut and paste relevant portions from your testimonies that are found on the PASCAL website.

[ http://pascalsc.org/content/view/170/1/ ]http://pascalsc.org/content/view/170/1/

Thank YOU for all that YOU have done to help SAVE PASCAL. Please keep up the good work!

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Here is a link to where you can share your story about how PASCAL has helped you and why keeping it is important. These will be taken in front of the legislature, so it is critical that people do this:

http://pascalsc.org/content/view/165/1/

Please invite others to join too!