Public support for campaign to halt uni archive cuts

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to protect the future of a “nationally significant” archives and special collections service at Bangor University say they have been “overwhelmed” by the strength of public support.

- By DALE SPRIDGEON

Messages have flooded in from all over the world and a petition launched recently has already achieved almost 3,000 signatures.

Organisers are now hoping that more people will sign the Save Your Archives online petition or write a letter to the university to help save the Archives and Special Collections from job cuts.

Currently there are two full-time and two part-time staff and it was previously proposed that three could be lost, leaving just one person to run the department.

The news came after the university’s vice-chancellor Professor Edmund Burke had emailed university staff warning of impending cuts within the university.

The university, which has around 10,000 students, is looking to cut jobs across the board as part of a bid to save more than £5m.