Libraries pushing back against plans to eliminate federal service, funding

Durham’s Pauli Murray Center Told Its Federal Grant “No Longer Serves the Interest of the United States”

In late March, the INDY reported that North Carolina libraries and cultural centers were bracing for impact from the Trump administration’s sweeping federal reductions. A March 14 executive order had called for drastic cuts to the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a small federal agency that helps fund cultural institutions across the country. This week, those impacts are beginning to set in: According to a press release sent out…

Trump cuts force South Dakota State Library to close, interlibrary loans in jeopardy

The South Dakota State Library closed its doors to the public after the federal government shut down a critical funding source.

Closing, downsizing or building new among options for South Milwaukee Library, study says

The results are in from a study that looked at funding options to maintain needed and appropriate levels of service at the South Milwaukee Library.

No Civilized Society Undermines Libraries?

That’s the headline of an op-ed in the Union Leader. The author, James Garvin, is offended by the idea that the Trump Administration would put the entire Institute of Museum and Library Services staff on leave. The entire who? IMLS is the only federal agency dedicated to libraries and is also a crucial source of funding for ... Read more Source

Libraries pushing back against plans to eliminate federal service, funding

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- If you've recently been to a Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, you might have found a notice -- either posted, or inside a book -- with a QR code. When scanned, it details a recent executive order from the Trump administration eliminating the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Signed by President Donald Trump last month, the order states it "continues the reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy t…

(CARTOON) Federal cuts could be 'devastating' to Wyoming libraries

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