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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Here is the executive order:
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/">
<span style="color:#467886">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">If you are in the USA, you can sign a petition from the American Library Association:
<a href="https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577">
<span style="color:#467886">https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">You can sign a petition from Every Library no matter where you live:
<a href="https://action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025"><span style="color:#467886">https://action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Please act to save libraries, museums, and archives in the USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Mary Grace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Mary Grace Kosta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">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
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