Received: from 2kexmb.hq.corp.pbs.org (2kexmb.pbs.org [149.48.50.84] (may be forged)) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h3MF42U07632 for <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov>; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:04:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 2kexmb.pbs.org ([149.48.50.89]) by 2kexmb.hq.corp.pbs.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:03:50 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8915] ERIC Action Alert Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:03:49 -0400 Message-ID: <EE81FC4A94703A46976D9DF51EF10186022B89C1@2kexmb.hq.corp.pbs.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Importance: normal Priority: normal Thread-Topic: ERIC Action Alert thread-index: AcMI4GGREDZvdSjgT2ywkgqOUmRI3g== From: "Frances Keenan" <fkeenan@pbs.org> To: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Apr 2003 15:03:50.0084 (UTC) FILETIME=[61ABA040:01C308E0] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by literacy.nifl.gov id h3MF42U07632 Status: O Content-Length: 2607 Lines: 64 ACTION ALERT: ERIC Clearinghouses on the Chopping Block! The U.S. Department of Education has issued a draft plan for a "New ERIC" system. Unless this plan is modified, all 16 Clearinghouses and their services will be eliminated and there will be a dramatic change in the content of the ERIC database. The public has an opportunity to comment until May 9, 2003. The plan for the "New ERIC" makes the following changes: * Closes all 16 ERIC Clearinghouses * Eliminates personalized reference and referral services * Terminates AskERIC and clearinghouse question-answering services * Ends all networking and outreach activities, including ERIC-sponsored Listservs * Shuts down Clearinghouse Web sites currently visited by 22.5 million unique visitors a year * Eliminates ERIC Digests, books, and other synthesis publications * Reduces coverage of the journal literature from 1100 journals to an estimated 400 * Restricts consumer access to information, limiting ERIC database coverage to "approved lists" of journals and document contributors There is still time to change it! If the proposed changes do not reflect your vision of ERIC, ask Secretary Paige and your legislators to change their plan to include all 16 ERIC Clearinghouses with their information services and user-friendly products and Web sites; and to continue comprehensive coverage of the education literature. Please make your views known by May 9 to: Secretary of Education Rod Paige Fax: 202-401-0596 (on letterhead. please) Email: Rod.Paige@ed.gov Your State's Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Your Congressional Representative: http://www.house.gov/writerep/ For additional up-to-date information on ERIC, please visit: ERIC Reauthorization News http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/education/doe.htm _____________________________________________________ MANOR HOUSE Where historical accuracy meets hysterical reality. Beginning April 28 at 8pm ET/PT, only on PBS. www.pbs.org/manorhouse _____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ This email may contain material that is confidential or proprietary to PBS and is intended solely for use by the intended recipient. Any review, reliance or distribution of such material by others, or forwarding of such material without express permission, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and destroy all copies. _________________________________________________________
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