EPA libraries have been told to restore services by Congress. Jessymyn West posted a story on her blog about this yesterday: http://www.librarian.net/stax/2221/congress-requests-epa-libraries-to-open-again/ . She also links to a press release at the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility site: http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=964 .

To quote Ms. West, who echoes many (I hope) citizens' feelings about the whole episode: "I don’t know about you but I find this so upsetting. Not that someone could be so shortsighted as to think you could close a bunch of libraries with practically unique information and replace them with a (shoddy, sorry) database, but that the whole idea of closing a LIBRARY isn’t seen as a last-ditch thing you only do when you need to, I don’t know, burn the books for fuel to keep from freezing to death."

Previous posts to the User Education blog about the EPA libraries: http://libeducation.blogspot.com/search?q=epa .