Regina KammerApr 8, 2025
American Library Association FAQ: Executive Order Targeting IMLS
This set of frequently asked questions is intended to help library workers, library advocates, and library users understand this Executive Order.
https://www.ala.org/faq-executive-order-targeting-imls
#Libraries #EndFascism #AmericanLibraryAssociation #LibraryFunding
FAQ: Executive Order Targeting IMLS

This set of frequently asked questions is intended to help library workers, library advocates, and library users understand this Executive Order.

OrganizingLISJul 10, 2024

Libraries are already combating inequality, we need to make sure they have the funds to keep doing it

🔗 https://truthout.org/articles/public-libraries-are-essential-resources-and-theyre-more-threatened-than-ever/

#PublicLibraries #LibraryFunding #NoCutsToLibraries #InvestInLibraries #Libraries #NYPL #BPL #QPL #NYCLibraries

Public Libraries Are Essential Resources — and They’re More Threatened Than Ever

Our libraries are already combating inequality, we need to make sure they have the funds to keep doing it.

Truthout
ALA Editions | Neal-SchumanJun 11, 2024

Now in stock! Combining easy‐to‐understand advice with a toolkit of practical worksheets and checklists, this book offers a proven, immediately applicable method for success that will enable #libraries to find the funding and resources they need. https://alastore.ala.org/wingrants3

#library #libraryfunding #grants

Winning Grants, Third Edition

infoDOCKETApr 25, 2024
Research Tools: “Who is Funding Library Projects? New Open Data Resource” https://www.infodocket.com/2024/04/25/research-tools-who-is-funding-library-projects-new-open-data-resource/ #libraries #libraryfunding #opendata
Research Tools: “Who is Funding Library Projects? New Open Data Resource”

From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): Libraries have a long history of helping to deliver on a wide variety of development goals, from literacy and school readiness to research productivity and urban cohesion. Their unique potential – thanks to their public spaces, committed staff, responsive service provision and collections – has […]

Library Journal infoDOCKET
jdmccaffertyApr 18, 2024
18 Apr 1604: James VI & I knights Thomas Bodley - the vastly lavish donor to #Oxford university #otd (Bodleian) #LibraryFunding
U.S. Politics in Real TimeOct 10, 2023

The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/us-library-system-attack-digital-licensing

#USLibrarySystem #DigitalLicensing #LibraryCuts #LibraryFunding #ReadingCulture #LibraryAccess #Politics #News

The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts

In addition to political censorship and budget cuts, libraries are being undermined by rapacious digital licensing agreements

The Guardian
OrganizingLISJun 14, 2023

For The People has created a toolkit for anyone to host a Libraries & Lemonade event to get the word out about why taking action for our public libraries is essential

#PublicLibraries #ForThePeople #LibrariesAndLemonade #DefendPublicLibraries #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryFunding #NoCutsToLibraries

🔗 https://librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/announcing-libraries-and-lemonade

Announcing: Libraries & Lemonade!

A refreshing new project from For The People: this summer, take a (lemonade) stand for public libraries.

For The People: A Leftist Library Project
Show threadAnneTheWriterApr 3, 2023

@EgyptianAphorist @bookstodon

A little while before Covid, I had been doing some #Genealogy research in #StJoseph MO. When I asked the #library there for help with #newspaper lookups, they said they could not afford #Newspapers.com, because they had an extremely small budget.

In all of my time researching Genealogy, I had never run across that before.

#Missouri has enough problems #funding their #libraries. If they don't have these state funds, what more can they cut? 😥😡

The #GOP is full of vindictive fascists and liars, at every level. #Trump was never the disease, he was only the most prominent symptom of the vile and cruel sickness in the #Republican party.

Contrary to what they claim, #Republicans are not about defending #FreedomOfSpeech and the #Constitution. They simply want to be the #FourthReich.

#FormerGOP #LibraryFunding #BookBans #LibrariesMatter #LibrariesOfMastodon #BookBanning #LibrariansOfMastodon #ACLU

OrganizingLISMar 29, 2023

Missouri House gives initial approval to $45.6 billion state budget that defunds libraries

#MissouriHouse #PublicLibraries #LibraryFunding #LibraryWorkers

🔗 https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2023-03-29/missouri-house-gives-initial-approval-to-45-6-billion-state-budget-that-defunds-libraries

Missouri House gives initial approval to $45.6 billion state budget that defunds libraries

The budget is less than Gov. Mike Parson’s initial proposal, and eliminates funding for a pre-K program and for public libraries. Democrats and Republicans repeatedly clashed over language that bans staffing for any programs or vendors "associated with diversity, equity and inclusion."

KCUR