Environmental Protection Agency library network
By: Bernard T. Vellios.
Contributors: United States. General Accounting Office.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781606920596
Subjects: United States. -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Libraries; United States. -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Reorganization; Environmental libraries -- United States -- Administration
Notes: "Excerpted, indexed edition of GAO report GAO-08-304 dated February 2008."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Results in brief; title: Background; title: Some libraries independently decided to close, reduce their hours, or take other actions, but the final network configuration is still uncertain; title: EPA did not effectively justify its decision to reorganize its library network; title: EPA did not fully inform or solicit views from the full range of stakeholders on the reorganization but is now increasing its outreach efforts; title: EPA lacks a strategy to ensure continuity of library services and does not know whether its actions have impaired access to environmental information; title: EPA program offices are responsible for funding their libraries and their reorganization through their support budgets; title: Conclusions; title: Recommendations for executive action; title: Agency comments.