Hope you'll join us next week on Zoom when we talk with authors in the @cjalrcbu.bsky.social special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction! Link to register and details on authors participating at: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

There's a very demoralizing thread on the code4lib list where all the libraries describe how they're getting hammered by AI crawlers who behave basically like bot-nets trying to DDoS servers. (Along these lines: go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-b... ) 1/2

Watched powerful book ban doc #BannedTogether thanks to UCL iSchool/CILIP School Libraries Group www.bannedtogetherdoc.com In addition to supporting better institutional policies & evidence, CILIP's new #IntellectualFreedom Committee will launch in April to explore other options

From the essay, “Cultural Preservation and Queer History,” by Brooke Palmieri, part of the Vanishing Culture report.

Download the full report now ➡️ archive.org/details/vani...

🕳️ #VanishingCulture

History isn’t just what survives—it’s what we choose to remember. Too often, queer & trans stories have been erased, forgotten, or hidden away. But archives help reclaim that history, ensuring that future generations can find themselves in the past. blog.archive.org/2025/04/02/v...

"Reading builds empathy": The case for saving America's libraries

www.salon.com/2025/03/30/r...

Thirty-nine states and territories included digital navigator programs in their state/territory digital equity/opportunity plans, many of whom included libraries as key community partners.

Federal Funding is what allowed it to scale so quickly.

www.digitalinclusion.org/blog/cancell...

Academic Libraries and Threats to Intellectual Freedom, Where Do We Go From Here?

Wednesday, April 16 at 12 pm (Eastern)

#medlibs 📚

www.everylibraryinstitute.org/academic_lib...

Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story.

forms.gle/MAocZZMsoUu7...

imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

Wrote about the Trump administration’s attacks on federal funding for libraries

“Make no mistake about it, the elimination of funding for libraries is a political assault on First Amendment rights, access to information, and the freedom to read,” one librarian said www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...

Live in Ohio? You need to get on the phone and in inboxes ASAP.

IMLS Matters.

Read the stories (reload gets a new story).

imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

Tell your story.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

From @thomaspadilla.bsky.social at Author's Alliance.

#SaveIMLS

PBS NewsHour story on the impact of the destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). youtu.be/-0Bi9dXqA-g?...

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question.

Find in here links to what this federal money supports in (almost) each state, too.

bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.

This is updated regularly!

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. 📣SPEAK UP for libraries at: www.everylibrary.org/statementiml... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.

The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.

Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding

Trump is threatening Federal Funding for Libraries; learn more and take action at saveimls.org.

Trump urged to reconsider order gutting agency that gives grants to libraries, museums kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/17/r...

From am email from NEMA: This executive order would essentially gut IMLS within 7 days. IMLS is an agency that is already operating at a min financial level, making up only 0.0046% of the federal budget. IMLS efficiently provides critical resources to libraries&museums in all states/territories. 🗃️📚📜

My latest @timeshighered.bsky.social piece on the unintended (or perhaps entirely intended) consequences for academia and research of a seemingly laudable terror financing tax bill… #AcademicSky 📚

Librarian Criminalization Bills Are Growing, But They’re Not New 📚
bookriot.com/librarian-cr...