The Faculty Senate of Northwestern State University passed a resolution to support LOUIS on Tuesday the 19th. Here is the text, and the .DOC original.

The student newspaper at The University of Louisiana at Monroe has published an article about the LOUIS crisis, featuring an interview with Donald Smith, Dean of the University of Louisiana at Monroe Library and Chair of the LALINC Executive Committee. You can read it online here.

It even made it on the front page! If you're at ULM, you can still find the issue in print. Images of the article are attached:

Dr.Belle Wheelan, President of SACSCOC (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges) sent this letter to key state and higher education officials recently. Here is a PDF scan of the letter.

Here also is a computer-read text copy if you do not prefer PDF...

The Baton Rouge Community College Student Government Association has issued a resolution in support of LOUIS. Here is the PDF file.

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The April 8th, 2011 edition of LSU Shreveport Student News includes a story on LOUIS:

LSUS has done other pro-LOUIS actions as well.

Donald Smith, Dean of the University of Louisiana at Monroe Library and Chair of the LALINC Executive Committee made this statement via email today:

We received word yesterday that the Board’s grant consultants determined that the “Save LOUIS” grant application was ineligible. Unless the legislature can be persuaded to fully fund LOUIS, all we will get by way of the Board’s request is $500,000. Each institution will have to come up with the rest. Our [ULM's] share will could be in excess of $175,000 rather than the $65,000 we had paid prior to our funding loss. Please solicit everyone you know, particularly at the University, to contact our legislators for support.

This means that there is no grant money coming to save LOUIS, and institutions will need to pay much more for access to resources. We need your help!