Your voice matters 💌 Help protect beloved statewide programs like MeL & MeLCat by asking Congress to #FundLibraries. ALA makes it easy to send a message.
👉 ow.ly/h4Mq50WNUSO
#SAVEIMLS #MILibraries
👉 ow.ly/h4Mq50WNUSO
#SAVEIMLS #MILibraries
August 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Your voice matters 💌 Help protect beloved statewide programs like MeL & MeLCat by asking Congress to #FundLibraries. ALA makes it easy to send a message.
👉 ow.ly/h4Mq50WNUSO
#SAVEIMLS #MILibraries
👉 ow.ly/h4Mq50WNUSO
#SAVEIMLS #MILibraries
Texas Museums Together has put together a toolkit to help build support for museums. It can be used by museums across the country.
Did I mention it's free? So there is no excuse not to use it.
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum
#FundMuseums #SaveIMLS #FundLibraries
#MuseumsMatter #ForOurLibraries
Did I mention it's free? So there is no excuse not to use it.
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum
#FundMuseums #SaveIMLS #FundLibraries
#MuseumsMatter #ForOurLibraries
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MUSEUMS IN TEXAS ARE AT A TIPPING POINT.
www.texasmuseumstogether.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Texas Museums Together has put together a toolkit to help build support for museums. It can be used by museums across the country.
Did I mention it's free? So there is no excuse not to use it.
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum
#FundMuseums #SaveIMLS #FundLibraries
#MuseumsMatter #ForOurLibraries
Did I mention it's free? So there is no excuse not to use it.
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum
#FundMuseums #SaveIMLS #FundLibraries
#MuseumsMatter #ForOurLibraries
Here's a list of subcommittee members bit.ly/3Jg5i9M.
If your rep is on it enter your info here bit.ly/3UITKyj for a call script & call them directly or write them here bit.ly/4mniZSB.
#SaveIMLS #FundMuseums #FundLibraries
#MuseumsMatter #ForOurLibraries
If your rep is on it enter your info here bit.ly/3UITKyj for a call script & call them directly or write them here bit.ly/4mniZSB.
#SaveIMLS #FundMuseums #FundLibraries
#MuseumsMatter #ForOurLibraries
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
bit.ly
August 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Here's a list of subcommittee members bit.ly/3Jg5i9M.
If your rep is on it enter your info here bit.ly/3UITKyj for a call script & call them directly or write them here bit.ly/4mniZSB.
#SaveIMLS #FundMuseums #FundLibraries
#MuseumsMatter #ForOurLibraries
If your rep is on it enter your info here bit.ly/3UITKyj for a call script & call them directly or write them here bit.ly/4mniZSB.
#SaveIMLS #FundMuseums #FundLibraries
#MuseumsMatter #ForOurLibraries
Oh the symbolism of the Institute of Museum & Library Services not being at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social's annual conference.
GLAM Fam, are you gonna show up of Libraries & Museums? Please comment what you're doing to #SaveIMLS
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum
#FundLibraries #FundMuseums #GLAMFam
GLAM Fam, are you gonna show up of Libraries & Museums? Please comment what you're doing to #SaveIMLS
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum
#FundLibraries #FundMuseums #GLAMFam
August 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Oh the symbolism of the Institute of Museum & Library Services not being at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social's annual conference.
GLAM Fam, are you gonna show up of Libraries & Museums? Please comment what you're doing to #SaveIMLS
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum
#FundLibraries #FundMuseums #GLAMFam
GLAM Fam, are you gonna show up of Libraries & Museums? Please comment what you're doing to #SaveIMLS
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum
#FundLibraries #FundMuseums #GLAMFam
GLAM Fam we need to save the Institute of Museum & Library Services! They fund new exhibits, interlibrary loans & many other things. Currently, the funding bill only has enough money for IMLS to permanently close. Obviously, we don't want that to happen.
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum #SaveIMLS
#Gallery #Library #Archive #Museum #SaveIMLS
Braille libraries and library services for the blind and print-disabled are vital sources of community across the country.
Cuts to federal funding could curtail their work: www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...
Tell Congress to #FundLibraries: ala.org/fundlibraries #ForOurLibraries
Cuts to federal funding could curtail their work: www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...
Tell Congress to #FundLibraries: ala.org/fundlibraries #ForOurLibraries
Braille libraries offer community. What happens when funding cuts close them?
Braille and talking book libraries are a lifeline for people who are blind. But budget cuts mean these services face an uncertain future. How are staff working to help patrons stay connected to readin...
www.csmonitor.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
June 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Preserve and protect our public libraries.
E.O.s are not laws!
#PublicLibrary
#Books
#Community
#SaveIMLS
E.O.s are not laws!
#PublicLibrary
#Books
#Community
#SaveIMLS
Klukwan, Alaska, which is an Alaskan Native village, has had to cut their library hours from 35 a week to 4. That's thanks to the gutting of the IMLS.
FOUR. HOURS. A. WEEK.
www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/06/15/k...
FOUR. HOURS. A. WEEK.
www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/06/15/k...
Klukwan Library goes from 35 hours a week to 4 following federal funding loss
Along the Chilkat River in Southeast Alaska lies a small, ancient Alaska Native village, Klukwan. The village of Klukwan is in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area and has a population of around 100. It also...
www.alaskasnewssource.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Preserve and protect our public libraries.
E.O.s are not laws!
#PublicLibrary
#Books
#Community
#SaveIMLS
E.O.s are not laws!
#PublicLibrary
#Books
#Community
#SaveIMLS
When you check out at HEB, you can support libraries this summer! #TexasLibraries #SaveIMLS #PublicLibraries
June 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
When you check out at HEB, you can support libraries this summer! #TexasLibraries #SaveIMLS #PublicLibraries
📚💙 Big news for libraries & readers!
A federal judge halts the dismantling of IMLS, siding with 21 states pushing back on the exec order.
A major win for public access to knowledge! 🙌
Read more 👉 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
#LibraryLove #SaveIMLS #libraries #readers
A federal judge halts the dismantling of IMLS, siding with 21 states pushing back on the exec order.
A major win for public access to knowledge! 🙌
Read more 👉 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
#LibraryLove #SaveIMLS #libraries #readers
R.I. Judge Orders Halt to IMLS Dismantling
In Rhode Island v. Trump, district court judge John J. McConnell Jr. ordered a halt to an executive order dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Plaintiffs in ALA v. Sonderling requ...
www.publishersweekly.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
📚💙 Big news for libraries & readers!
A federal judge halts the dismantling of IMLS, siding with 21 states pushing back on the exec order.
A major win for public access to knowledge! 🙌
Read more 👉 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
#LibraryLove #SaveIMLS #libraries #readers
A federal judge halts the dismantling of IMLS, siding with 21 states pushing back on the exec order.
A major win for public access to knowledge! 🙌
Read more 👉 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
#LibraryLove #SaveIMLS #libraries #readers
Why fund libraries when we can just keep producing adults who think '1984' is an instruction manual? #DefundIgnorance #ReadorRepeatHistory #LibrariesAreForEveryone #LibrariesMatter
#SaveIMLS
#SaveIMLS
SIGN THE PETITION: Stand Against Trump's Budget Proposal to Defund IMLS.
Trump is more emboldened than ever to destroy library funding. We need you to take action today!
action.everylibrary.org
May 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Why fund libraries when we can just keep producing adults who think '1984' is an instruction manual? #DefundIgnorance #ReadorRepeatHistory #LibrariesAreForEveryone #LibrariesMatter
#SaveIMLS
#SaveIMLS
Those bootstraps some folx are obsessed with telling others to pull themselves up by? Public libraries make that more possible. Sorry to see this amazing woman out of a job. #SaveIMLS #PublicLibraries
Per @washingtonpost.com: 'President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position. She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email'.
#DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.
#DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.
May 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Those bootstraps some folx are obsessed with telling others to pull themselves up by? Public libraries make that more possible. Sorry to see this amazing woman out of a job. #SaveIMLS #PublicLibraries
📰🔗 News from the Detroit Free Press on ongoing efforts to #SaveIMLS👇 #LOVEMILibraries
Advocates 'encouraged' by ruling to stop federal cuts to program for libraries, museums
President Donald Trump's executive order in March was to cut Institute of Museum and Library Services, which gives federal funds to libraries, museums
www.freep.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📰🔗 News from the Detroit Free Press on ongoing efforts to #SaveIMLS👇 #LOVEMILibraries
IMLS UPDATE:
Yesterday, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island blocked the March 2025 Executive Order seeking to eliminate the IMLS and six other agencies, ruling it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
#SAVEIMLS #FUNDLibraries Read more👇
Yesterday, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island blocked the March 2025 Executive Order seeking to eliminate the IMLS and six other agencies, ruling it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
#SAVEIMLS #FUNDLibraries Read more👇
States win a legal injunction against President Trump, pausing library funding cuts
A federal judge Tuesday wrote that President Trump's executive order dismantling the IMLS "disregards the fundamental constitutional role of each of the branches of our federal government."
www.npr.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
IMLS UPDATE:
Yesterday, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island blocked the March 2025 Executive Order seeking to eliminate the IMLS and six other agencies, ruling it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
#SAVEIMLS #FUNDLibraries Read more👇
Yesterday, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island blocked the March 2025 Executive Order seeking to eliminate the IMLS and six other agencies, ruling it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
#SAVEIMLS #FUNDLibraries Read more👇
A Federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the IMLS evisceration
ALA argues that firing 85% of staff and freezing the processing of grants and calling it a "restructuring" is garbage, and the court seems to agree.
www.wordsandmoney.com/court-tempor...
#SaveIMLS
ALA argues that firing 85% of staff and freezing the processing of grants and calling it a "restructuring" is garbage, and the court seems to agree.
www.wordsandmoney.com/court-tempor...
#SaveIMLS
May 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A Federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the IMLS evisceration
ALA argues that firing 85% of staff and freezing the processing of grants and calling it a "restructuring" is garbage, and the court seems to agree.
www.wordsandmoney.com/court-tempor...
#SaveIMLS
ALA argues that firing 85% of staff and freezing the processing of grants and calling it a "restructuring" is garbage, and the court seems to agree.
www.wordsandmoney.com/court-tempor...
#SaveIMLS
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
From my State Librarian: "[we] received a notice [yesterday] from IMLS for a partial 2025 Grants to States award" My dept thinks they will get the full amount allotted to them for 2025.
Did all the states got these notices, or just the 20 which sued?
Graphic @marc-fischer.bsky.social
#SaveIMLS
Did all the states got these notices, or just the 20 which sued?
Graphic @marc-fischer.bsky.social
#SaveIMLS
April 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
From my State Librarian: "[we] received a notice [yesterday] from IMLS for a partial 2025 Grants to States award" My dept thinks they will get the full amount allotted to them for 2025.
Did all the states got these notices, or just the 20 which sued?
Graphic @marc-fischer.bsky.social
#SaveIMLS
Did all the states got these notices, or just the 20 which sued?
Graphic @marc-fischer.bsky.social
#SaveIMLS
Tell our elected representatives that federal IMLS funding for libraries needs to be preserved! In 2024, IMLS provided nearly 2.3 million dollars to fund libraries services for Utahns. That means students, vets, jobseekers... Learn more and take action at: letutahread.org/saveimls
Send an Email: Save IMLS Funding for Utah Libraries — LET UTAH READ
Send an email to our legislators to save IMLS funding for library services in Utah
letutahread.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Tell our elected representatives that federal IMLS funding for libraries needs to be preserved! In 2024, IMLS provided nearly 2.3 million dollars to fund libraries services for Utahns. That means students, vets, jobseekers... Learn more and take action at: letutahread.org/saveimls
The Trump Administration is desperate to have this case dismissed #SaveIMLS #SupportLibraries
www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_e... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_e... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
STATEMENT: Federal Funding for Libraries Makes it Case in Court
The Trump Administration is attempting to have this case dismissed based on standing.
www.everylibrary.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The Trump Administration is desperate to have this case dismissed #SaveIMLS #SupportLibraries
www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_e... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_e... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy. They serve the public by providing equitable access to information. People who cannot read, who do not read, who aren’t allowed to read, are no longer free.
pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/04/21/a... #saveIMLS #LibrariesMatter
pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/04/21/a... #saveIMLS #LibrariesMatter
A Few Basic Facts about IMLS
pearlsandrubys.slj.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy. They serve the public by providing equitable access to information. People who cannot read, who do not read, who aren’t allowed to read, are no longer free.
pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/04/21/a... #saveIMLS #LibrariesMatter
pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/04/21/a... #saveIMLS #LibrariesMatter
The White House March 2025 Executive Order to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services poses not only an existential threat to the institution of libraries and staff, but it risks worsening the childhoods of a whole generation.
New post from me:
aj-boston.pubpub.org/pub/libraries
New post from me:
aj-boston.pubpub.org/pub/libraries
Defund Libraries, Defund the Future
Eliminating Libraries and Books Erodes Our Children's Landscape
aj-boston.pubpub.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“...right now the public’s house is being dismantled all over the nation.” — ALA President-elect Sam Helmick
Learn what you can do to help:
www.ala.org/advocacy/sho...
#ForOurLibraries
Learn what you can do to help:
www.ala.org/advocacy/sho...
#ForOurLibraries
“The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social said funding cuts mean cuts to services, hours of operations, and in more rural areas, some libraries may be forced to close entirely.”
wgntv.com/western-subu...
#SaveIMLS
wgntv.com/western-subu...
#SaveIMLS
April 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
“The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social said funding cuts mean cuts to services, hours of operations, and in more rural areas, some libraries may be forced to close entirely.”
wgntv.com/western-subu...
#SaveIMLS
wgntv.com/western-subu...
#SaveIMLS
April 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social said funding cuts mean cuts to services, hours of operations, and in more rural areas, some libraries may be forced to close entirely.”
wgntv.com/western-subu...
#SaveIMLS
wgntv.com/western-subu...
#SaveIMLS