I am writing to bring the campus's attention to the resolution supporting the library capital project to be voted on by the Faculty Legislature at its May 31 meeting.

When I first came here I was appalled at the In recent years, the library addition has been at the bottom of the campus's capital projects priority list. UCSB is a Research 1 university whose national library standing has dropped from 47th in 1989 to 69th in 1999 and now 80th in 2000. The lack of adequate library space seriously threatens the library's ability to collect scholarly materials and to deliver technologically complex services. The library is essential to the research and teaching missions of the university. It is now time to go forward with the library addition.