Libraries pushing back against plans to eliminate federal service, funding

Libraries push back against cuts to a federal library support program

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been around for nearly 30 years. It only has about 75 employees, and the Trump administration wants to cut that number by half. The move isn’t sitting well with libraries who receive federal dollars via the IMLS, leading to a lawsuit from the American Library Association to restore the agency.  The Association’s policy chief Alan Inouye, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Interview transcrip…

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.

THEIR VIEW: Cutting funding for Hoosier libraries a mistake

Public libraries bolster our Indiana communities by providing access to books, technology and research material.

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