Kathryn Palmer writes: “Western Illinois University (WIU) in Macomb is laying off all nine of its library faculty—eight of them tenured or on the tenure track—as part of wider efforts to offset a $22 million budget deficit driven by rising operational costs and a 21% enrollment drop since fall 2019. Numerous other departments lost multiple faculty positions, but the library is the only department to have all faculty positions eliminated.” A WIU spokesperson said the library would continue to have adequate coverage after the layoffs with 20 remaining staff.