11 See for example: Jeffrey Selingo, “In Pennsylvania, Campus Leaders Prepare to Trim Budgets as They Fight Governor’s Proposed Cuts,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 9, 2011, http://chronicle.com/article/Campus-Leaders-in-Pennsylvania/126670/. 12 National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs Division, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Study on Research Universities, “Project Scope,” 2010, http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/bhew/researchuniversities/index.htm. 13 Aisha Labi and Beth McMurtrie, “British Universities Will See Budget Cuts of 40% under National Austerity Plan,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, October 22, 2010, http://chronicle.com/article/British-Universities-to-See/125032/. © 2011 Heather Munroe-Blum This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. To cite this article: Heather Munroe-Blum. “Ahead of the Storm: Research Libraries and the Future of the Research University.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 276 (September 2011): 1–11. http://publications.arl.org/rli276/. RLI 276 11 Ahead of the Storm: Research Libraries and the Future of the Research University ( C O N T I N U E D ) SEPTEMBER 2011 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A QUARTERLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC