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The University of Central Florida abruptly shut down two libraries and a technology lending center early Thursday, students and employees said, leaving some people without jobs and students without a place to borrow laptops, camera and other equipment.<\/p>\n

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The university shuttered the library on its downtown Orlando campus, a curriculum materials center on its main east Orange County campus and its \u201cLibTech\u201d desk on both campuses, they said.<\/p>\n

A UCF spokesperson declined to provide details about the shutdowns or to say how many employees had lost jobs.<\/p>\n

The cuts to libraries \u201cfollowed a comprehensive review\u201d to \u201censure limited resources are focused on the services that provide the greatest impact,\u201d said Courtney Gilmartin, UCF\u2019s chief communications officer, in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cUCF Libraries is evolving to better support the way today\u2019s students and faculty learn, conduct research, and engage with academic resources,\u201d Gilmartin wrote.<\/p>\n

She did not say if the school\u2019s technology lending program, which operated in the libraries at both UCF\u2019s downtown and main east Orange campuses, would make its equipment available in some other way.<\/p>\n

The university\u2019s human resource department called library employees Thursday morning to tell them not to come into work and that their positions had been eliminated, one former employee said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no notice. There was no warning. There was nothing,\u201d said the former employee\u00a0who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals.<\/p>\n

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The person was \u201cdevastated\u201d to lose their role at the library, adding it was \u201cthe best job I ever had\u201d and fears the loss of the technology lending program will hurt low-income UCF students.<\/p>\n

Some students borrow laptops, cameras and other technology \u2014 devices they cannot afford on their own \u2014 to complete coursework, the former employee said.<\/p>\n

The cuts come as UCF faces the new fiscal year in July anticipating millions of dollars less in state funding than it had once expected. UCF stood to gain about $20 million in funding from the state\u2019s \u201cpreeminent\u201d university program this year, but this spring the Florida Legislature chose to do away with that initiative.<\/p>\n

Christine LaRue, a parent of a UCF sophomore, said her daughter would borrow camera equipment from the campus library to take photos of rocket launches at Kennedy Space Center. Her daughter, who is in UCF\u2019s School of Visual Arts and Design, is now asking whether or she can afford her own camera.<\/p>\n

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LaRue is from Charleston, South Carolina, and out-of-state students at UCF have seen tuition and fee increases over the last several years. So the family is now paying more money for fewer resources at UCF, in what she said feels like a \u201cbait and switch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were sold one set of resources on campus, and it feels like that\u2019s gotten worse,\u201d LaRue said.<\/p>\n

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