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Update from ALA Chapter Relations Office on IMLS Funding Situation

  • 1.  Update from ALA Chapter Relations Office on IMLS Funding Situation

    Posted Apr 02, 2025 09:02 AM
    Edited by Eric Edwards Apr 02, 2025 09:04 AM

    (via Jon Martin, Program Manager - Chapter Relations Office)

    Today ALA learned that staff at the Institute of Museum & Library Services, the federal agency responsible for library funding, were placed on administrative leave. ALA President Cindy Hohl: "Congress created IMLS by law, with bipartisan support. Republican and Democratic Presidents signed those laws, including President Trump in 2018. Any significant reductions to the IMLS' small and talented workforce would undermine the agency's ability to carry out that law."

    Read our full statement: here

    Take action, tell Congress to protect library funding: here



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    Eric Edwards
    Interlibrary Loan Librarian
    Illinois State Library
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