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FOIA Confirmations!

Earlier this semester, a WIU Admin official asserted to the Faculty Senate Exec. Cmte., that sister univ. ISU employed only "3" librarians. A few FOIA requests corrected the record:

IL Public Univs.	# Librarians w/ MLS
NIU	22
ISU	17
SIU-E	15
EIU	13
WIU*	0

*per recent termination letters

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WIU Admin Eliminates All Librarians!

This summer the administration of Western Illinois University undertook radical action: it eliminated every one of its nine (9) professional librarians. When current contracts expire on May 14 (2025), Western will no longer employ a practicing academic librarian.

With declining enrollment, the librarian firing action is catastrophic for Western since student retention and recruitment are of paramount institutional importance. Educators, librarians and concerned citizens throughout Illinois and the United States have quickly risen to express amazement and outrage that an accredited, comprehensive, master's level university would not only endanger its good academic standing, but so brazenly choose to fail its own tuition-paying students. Join us in urging WIU to reverse this disastrous decision!

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WORDS DESCRIBING
the WIU Librarian Firings &
Consequences for WIU Students:

ABERRANT (adj) 1. Differing from the norm. 2. Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. , ABNORMAL (adj) 1. Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal. 2. Of or pertaining to that which is irregular; behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety. , ABOMINABLE (adj) 1. Worthy of or causing abhorrence; a thing of evil portent; odious in the utmost degree; detestable; loathsome. 2. Very bad or inferior; disagreeable or unpleasant. , ABSURD (adj) 1. Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously & flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous. , ADVERSE (adj) 1. Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's [own] interests or welfare. , APPALLING (adj) 1. Horrifying and astonishing. 2. Extremely bad; terrible. , ASTONISHING (adj) 1. Loss of composure or presence of mind. 2. Something very surprising; stunning. , ASTOUNDING (adj) 1. Stunned; astonished. , AWFUL (adj) 1. Very bad. 2. Appalling -- terrible. , BAD (adj) 1. Unfavorable; negative; not good. 2. Inappropriate; not suitable or fitting. , BANEFUL (adj) 1. Harmful; injurious , BEWILDERING (adj) 1. Very baffling -- confusing -- or perplexing -- often due to a very large choice being available. 2. head-scratching; puzzlesome. , BIZARRE (adj) 1. Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience -- often in an extravagant -- fantastic -- and/or conspicuous way. , CALAMITOUS (adj) 1. Concerning or involving calamity -- disastrous. , CAPRICIOUS (adj) 1. Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance -- impulse -- or whim , CARELESS (adj) 1. Not giving sufficient attention or thought -- especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. , CATACLYSMIC (adj) 1. Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic. , CATASTROPHIC (adj) 1. Disastrous; ruinous. 2. From which recovery is impossible. , CONFOUNDING (adj) 1. The act by which things are confounded -- or confused. , CORRODING (adj) 1. The gradual destruction or undermining of something; to impair , CRAZY (adj) 1. Of unsound mind; insane; demented. [from 17th c.] 2. Out of control; very unexpected; wildly surprising. , CRIPPLING (adj) 1. That cripples or incapacitates -- causing serious injury -- damage -- or harm. 2. Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental. , CURIOUS (adj) 1. Leading one to ask questions about; odd -- out of the ordinary -- or unusual. , DAFFY (adj) 1. Somewhat mad -- nutty or eccentric , DAMAGING (adj) 1. Causing damage; harmful -- injurious. , DELETERIOUS (adj) 1. Harmful -- often in a subtle or unexpected way. , DESTRUCTIVE (adj) 1. Causing destruction; damaging. 2. Causing breakdown or disassembly. , DETRIMENTAL (adj) 1. Causing damage -- harm -- or injury. , DIRE (adj) 1. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. 2. Bad in quality -- awful; terrible; dreadful; dismal. , DISADVANTAGEOUS (adj) 1. Not advantageous. , DISASTROUS (adj) 1. Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous. 2. Foreboding disaster; ill-omened. , DREADFUL (adj) 1. Genuinely horrific -- awful -- or alarming; dangerous -- risky. , DULL (adj) 1. Not sharp; insensible; sluggish -- not clear -- muffled. , DUMB (adj) 1. Pointless -- foolish -- lacking intellectual content or value. , ERRATIC (adj) 1. Unsteady -- random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent. 2. Eccentric, odd. , EYE-POPPING (adj) 1. Astonishing -- stunning -- incredible. , FARCICAL (adj) 1. Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd. , FAR-OUT (adj) 1. Very unusual -- eccentric or unconventional. , FATAL (adj) 1. Foreboding great disaster. 2. (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program. , FLAKY (adj) 1. Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction. , FOOLISH (adj) 1. Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise. , FREAKISH (adj) 1. Strange -- unusual -- abnormal or bizarre. , FREAKY (adj) 1. Odd; bizarre; unusual. , FUTILE (adj) 1. Incapable of producing results -- useless. 2. Doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting. , GHASTLY (adj) 1. Horrifyingly shocking. 2. Extremely bad. , GOOFY (adj) 1. quirky , GROTESQUE (adj) 1. Distorted and unnatural in character; abnormal. , HAREBRAINED (adj) 1. Absurd; foolish. , HARMFUL (adj) 1. Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious. , HIDEOUS (adj) 1. Morally offensive; shocking. , HORRIBLE (adj) 1. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing -- particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. , HORRIFIC (adj) 1. Horrifying -- causing horror; horrible. , ILLOGICAL (adj) 1. Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning. 2. Unsound. , IMPRACTICABLE (adj) 1. Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice. , INADVISABLE (adj) 1. Unwise; not recommended; not prudent; not to be advised. , INANE (adj) 1. Lacking sense or meaning. 2. Purposeless; pointless. , INCOHERENT (adj) 1. Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent. 2. Not cohering socially, not united. , INCONGRUOUS (adj) 1. Not similar or congruent; not matching. , INIMICAL (adj) 1. Harmful in effect. 2. Unfriendly, hostile. , INJURIOUS (adj) 1. Causing harm or injury; hurtful. , IRRATIONAL (adj) 1. Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical. , IRREGULAR (adj) 1. Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations. , KOOKY (adj) 1. (slang) Eccentric -- strange -- or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish. , LAUGHABLE (adj) 1. Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision. , LOONY (adj) 1. Insane; absurd. , LOUSY (adj) 1. Remarkably bad; of poor quality. , LUDICROUS (adj) 1. Unthinkable -- plainly incongruous or absurd. , MALEFIC (adj) 1. Having an evil or harmful influence; baleful. , MALIGNANT (adj) 1. Harmful -- malevolent -- injurious. 2. Threatening a fatal issue. , MIND-BOGGLING (adj) 1. That causes the mind to boggle; that is beyond one's ability to understand or figure out. , MISLEADING (adj) 1. To create a false impression -- even if technically true. , NOCUOUS (adj) 1. Likely to cause harm or damage. , NON-SENSICAL (adj) 1. Without sense; absurd. , NOXIOUS (adj) 1. Harmful; injurious. , NUTTY (adj) 1. Containing nuts; resembling or characteristic of nuts. 2. (slang) Barmy, crazy, mad. , ODD (adj) 1. Differing from what is usual -- ordinary or expected. 2. Not regular or planned. , ODDBALL (adj) 1. Eccentric or unusual , OFF-THE-WALL (adj) 1. Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd. 2. Greatly inappropriate. , OFFBEAT (adj) 1. Unusual; unconventional. 2. Odd; peculiar; weird. , OFF-CENTER (adj) 1. Eccentric -- unbalanced -- slightly wrong. , OUT-IN-LEFT-FIELD (adj) 1. An unusual or unexpected position -- or a viewpoint held by very few others in contrast to the majority viewpoint. , OUTLANDISH (adj) 1. Greatly different from common experience; bizarre -- outrageous -- strange. , OUTRAGEOUS (adj) 1. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant -- immoderate. 2. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative. , PECULIAR (adj) 1. Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual. , PERNICIOUS (adj) 1. Causing much harm in a subtle way. , PESTIFEROUS (adj) 1. Vexatious. 2. Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause. , PESTILENTIAL (adj) 1. Having a harmful moral effect. , PREPOSTEROUS (adj) 1. Absurd -- or contrary to common sense. , RECKLESS (adj) 1. Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash. 2. Indifferent or oblivious to danger or the consequences thereof. , RIDICULOUS (adj) 1. Deserving of ridicule; foolish -- absurd. 2. Astonishing; extreme; unbelievable. , RISKY (adj) 1. Dangerous -- involving risks. , RUINOUS (adj) 1. Causing ruin; destructive -- calamitous. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as an edifice; bridge; or [library] in a ruinous state. , SCREWY (adj) 1. Crazy; silly; ridiculous. 2. Tipsy; worthless. , SENSELESS (adj) 1. Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense. 2. Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement , SILLY (adj) 1. Laughable; absurd. 2. Thoughtless -- lacking judgment; (obsolete) Rustic, uneducated, unlearned. , SINISTER (adj) 1. Ominous 2. Wrong -- as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse. , STARTLING (adj) 1. Likely to startle; surprising; shocking. , STRANGE (adj) 1. Not normal; odd -- unusual -- surprising -- out of the ordinary -- especially if slightly uncomfortable. 2. Unknown. , STUNNING (adj) 1. Having an effect that stuns (shock or surprise). 2. Incapacitating; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness. , STUPEFYING (adj) 1. That causes stupefaction (state of extreme shock or astonishment). 2. Causing a state of insensibility; stupor. , TERRIBLE (adj) 1. Dreadful; causing terror -- alarm and fear. 2. Unpleasant; disagreeable; very bad; lousy. , TOMFOOL (adj) 1. A silly or stupid idea. , TRAGIC (adj) 1. Causing great sadness or suffering. 2. (informal) Cringeworthy; embarrassing; hopeless. , UNBELIEVABLE (adj) 1. Amazing -- astonishing; to surprising to be believed. 2. Infeasible; impractical. , UNDERMINING (adj) 1. To erode the base or foundation of something. , UNHEALTHY (adj) 1. characterized by -- or conducive to poor [mental -- academic] health. , UNNATURAL (adj) 1. Going against nature; or the accepted way. , UNPROPITIOUS (adj) 1. Not propitious; unfavourable -- untimely. , UNREALISTIC (adj) 1. Expressed or represented as being inaccurate -- inpracticable -- or not idealistic. , UNREASONABLE (adj) 1. Not reasonable; going beyond what could be expected or asked for. , UNSAFE (adj) 1. Precarious -- rickety -- shaky -- tottering -- unsteady -- unstable -- wobbly. , UNTOWARD (adj) 1. Unfavourable -- adverse -- or disadvantageous. 2. Improper. , UNWHOLESOME (adj) 1. Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful. 2. Not sound. , WACKY (adj) 1. Zany -- eccentric. , WANTON (adj) 1. Undisciplined -- unruly; not able to be controlled. 2. Acting with disregard for the well-being of others , WAY-OUT (adj) 1. Unusual -- unconventional or strange. 2. (slang) out of the mainstream of society. , WEIRD (adj) 1. Deviating from the normal; bizarre. , WILD (adj) 1. Very inaccurate; far off the mark. 2. Tangled.

ALL Librarians Eliminated @ WIU in: