On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:22:26 -0400, Daniel Bastos wrote:

> It actually isn't clear to me that it is not paid for by taxpayer money.

It's a private university.  Therefore, the funding is from private 
donations and tuition.

> I have the impression that all universities are government funded. 

<shrug>  That's not the case.  I went to a private university in Florida.

> I
> consider this from the fact that researchers are always writing
> justifications for the grants they get from the government.

Government grants for research aren't applied to a library's funding, 
they're for the research.  Completely different areas.

Jim

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