The global pandemic has impacted budgets across UMass, the Commonwealth, and the world. For the Libraries, the immediate need to reduce our budget comes on top of years of unsustainable inflationary increases by scholarly publishers. Their practices have made it increasingly challenging for libraries and universities worldwide to provide needed resources for our faculty and students.

This presentation supports a town hall meeting held for faculty, librarians, and other interested parties to show the following: our current environment and how we got here, development of a path forward and what that will look like for faculty, and details of how resources were selected for cancellation. The town hall also provides an opportunity for faculty to provide input.