[Ohiodig] Defunding IMLS

[Mary Kosta]

President Trump signed an executive order to defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The IMLS provides critical funding for libraries, museums, and archives in the USA. This may cause libraries, museums, and archives to close or be unable to deliver many programs across the country. I personally attended an IMLS funded program, Digital POWRR, some years ago, and it empowered me to be able to set up a digital preservation workflow in the archives. The IMLS funds so much - tribal libraries, state libraries, Internet in libraries, interlibrary loan programs, and was an early funder of Omeka, among countless good works. Archivists in the USA and Canada have relied on IMLS funded programs.

Here is the executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/

If you are in the USA, you can sign a petition from the American Library Association: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577

You can sign a petition from Every Library no matter where you live: https://action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025

Please act to save libraries, museums, and archives in the USA.




Mary Grace
Mary Grace Kosta

I acknowledge that I live and work on the territory of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Attawandaron (Neutral), and Wendat peoples, and pay my respects to Elders past and present.


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