We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
does the white house think the LOC is a regular lending library
It’s not an exaggeration to say that there would be no #DH as we know it without NEH and IMLS
And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.
NEH and IMLS have very small budgets but the impact of the work these agencies do is felt literally everywhere in the US, including in many of the places that voted for Trump.
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
Cannot think of anything we need less right now than left vs liberal beefs. We’re going to be sharing the same cells, y’all. They don’t put us in separate wings.
Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed Keith E. Sonderling as Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), raising significant concerns for the nation’s library and museum communities.
www.everylibrary.org/statementson...
The IMLS is more than a grantmaking entity – it is the only federal agency dedicated to sustaining the entire museum and library ecosystem in the United States.
theconversation.com/trump-admini...
Watching with interest. US-based #KnowledgeCommons plans to co-locate in Europe and South Africa in order to preserve academic research beyond the control of the US govt. Good luck, @kfitz.info.
about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/d...
#Preservation
Who's been covering the threat to IMLS? Gary Price at @infodocket.bsky.social has a roundup. (Gary continues to provide an invaluable service, BTW.) 📚www.infodocket.com/2025/03/18/roundup-libra...
I am thinking of every IMLS worker today.
Opinion: Viktor Orbán came for me. Donald Trump is coming for you. Here's what to do. chroni.cl/4izhG1L
Rats in the library tomorrow
Are Gen Xers the new boomers to this generation?
We're hosting an NEH Summer Institute on Humanities Perspectives on AI at the Marriott Library at the University of Utah from July 14th to August 1st. Please apply! See aihumanities.lib.utah.edu
" If, during the course of the publication process, an author is asked to pay a fee for submission of the Author Accepted Manuscript to PubMed Central, such costs are not allowable. "
OOOOH. HIGHLIGHT THAT IN ALL THE COLORS
Drop of water in background with foreground message saying: Knowledge is a public good. Let's treat it like one.
Love the COAR visual for #OAweek!