ON MY MIND - SAVING GRADUATE LIBRARY PROGRAMS IN CALIFORNIA - A MODEST PROPOSAL

Graduate library education in California is in serious trouble. In lat e February of last year, UC-Berkeley's Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien accep ted the recommendation of a campus committee to suspend admissions to Berkeley's graduate library school. Then, in early June, UCLA's Chance llor Charles Young announced plans to close UCLA's graduate library sc hool in July of 1994. If these two schools are closed and their progra ms eliminated, the nation's largest state, with a population of 31 mil lion people, will be left with but one ALA-accredited library school-t hat of San Jose State University. Such moves are tantamount to placing librarians on the state's endangered species list.