It seems to me that our political leaders are making a case for ARIA, the NYSHEI proposal for a statewide information infrastructure.
On January 8, at George Mason University, President-elect Barack Obama set forth his argument for a massive federal spending program intended to spur economic recovery. In doing so Obama said that his spending program “will equip tens of thousands of schools, community colleges and public universities with 21st-century classrooms, labs and libraries.”
New York Governor David Paterson, in his January 7 State of the State address, presented his vision for our state’s economic recovery. Paterson said that we must spend tax dollars “more effectively” to build a “vibrant economy” through “careful and constructive infrastructure investments,” particularly those that “maximize the extraordinary academic and scientific resources” of New York.
NYSHEI is working to make sure that our elected officials understand the cost-effective benefits of ARIA’s public-private partnership, and leverage our academic and research libraries to fulfill their own promises of innovative economic growth.
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