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Associated Press

LEXINGTON, Ky. —- UK sup.
porters will try to get money for a
new library restored to the state
budget if the legislature has a spe-
cial session, the chairman of UK‘s
board of trustees said.

 

“The library is too central to the
needs of UK; we’ll keep working
until we get it," said former Gov.
Edward T. “Ned" Breathitt, the
chairman.

UK‘s request for $46 million in
bonds to build the library was one
of the many higher education capi-
tal construction proposals that fell
victim to the legislature's furious

slashing in the final week of the
1994 General Assembly.

UK has already raised $20 mil-
lion in private money for its library
project — $12 million for the
building and the remainder for
equipment and a book endowment.

UK President Charles Wething-
ton could not be reached for com-
ment during the weekend, but the
chief private fund-raiser for the
project said no options to using
state money for the library have
been discussed.

“It is just much too early to give
up the ghost,“ said John Gaines. a
Lexington horseman and business-
man.

 

“This project has a different
character from most of the bricks
and mortar projects" cut from the
state budget, he said. because it has
statewide support.

Gaines and Paul Willis, UK‘s di-
rector of libraries, said they have
had no calls requesting that dona-
tions be retumed or the project
scrapped.

“l have had a lot of calls and
conversations with people who are
concerned and are with us in want-
ing it to go forward as soon as pos-
sible," Willis said.

“I think the worst-case scenario
is a two-year wait.

But we are still hoping that

l § I Breathitt: UK will continue

something might happen between
now and then."

Kentucky historian Thomas D.
Clark said he was “heartsick”
about the apparent delay in the li-
brary project.

The loss will be felt by UK in
the future, he said. With the li-
brary, “the University of Kentucky
had a chance to really step out of
its tight. traditional provincial shell
and become a significant infonna-
tional and cultural center for this
state."

Other UK projects affected in-
cluded several projects for commu-
nity colleges and a new mechanical
engineering building for the main
campus.

 

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