11.12 Legislative update U. President Bernie Machen and other program representatives outlined their budget requests before the Utah State Legislature s Higher Education Subcommittee Monday, Jan. 31. Utah s nine colleges and universities are looking for ongoing library funding to, in part, continue the work of the Utah Academic Library Consortium, an information sharing and delivery program that involves 14 libraries from the Utah System of Higher Education plus BYU and Westminster.
Libraries also face steep ongoing publication price increases.
The Reading Center addresses a growing number of Utah schoolchildren who are not reading at grade level. Saturn of Salt Lake has teamed up with The Utah Coalition for Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation and ARUP to host a blood drive competition between the University of Utah, BYU, and Weber State University in honor of National Donor Day. The event will take place at the Union Building on Monday, Feb. 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. National Donor Day is a campaign sponsored by the National Coalition on Donation and Saturn, and is being celebrated all across the country to raise awareness about the need for blood, organ, eye and tissue donation. Last year over 400 Saturn stores participated nationwide, drawing nearly 8,000 units of blood and typing nearly 1,000 potential marrow donors. Thousands of organ and tissue donor cards were also distributed.