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**Robin Riley** @robin@riley.pub · 12h

Just heard from Sonoma County Library staff who are beginning to parse the potential impacts of the current US administration's attempt to defund libraries.

Surprise: it may be unconstitutional, but that won't stop them from wreaking havoc.

More info for everyone who loves their library:

* https://www.everylibrary.org/statementimls2025
* https://www.ala.org/news/2025/03/ala-statement-white-house-assault-institute-museum-and-library-services

And a petition: https://action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025

As always, please call your federal reps.

EveryLibraryStatement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

#USPol #Libraries

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**Fictionable** @fictionable@lor.sh · 1d

Fictionable @fictionable@lor.sh

'It opened up a whole new life for me.'

The UK is shuttering about 40 #libraries a year:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg117gdky1o

#BBC #books #reading #writing #bookstodon @bookstodon

BBC NewsLibrary closures: What impact do they have on communities who lose them?Research by the BBC finds libraries are being lost at a rate of about 40 each year.

**RealJournalism** @RealJournalism@mastodon.social · 1d

RealJournalism @RealJournalism@mastodon.social

'A library is more than a place with books, it is a lifeline' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg117gdky1o #Libraries #Books

www.bbc.comLibrary closures: What impact do they have on communities who lose them?Research by the BBC finds libraries are being lost at a rate of about 40 each year.

**RealJournalism** @RealJournalism@mastodon.social · 1d

RealJournalism @RealJournalism@mastodon.social

Library workers deserve protection, not prosecution https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/03/17/library-workers-deserve-protection-not-prosecution/ #Books #Libraries #Fascism

J. @diametrijenesis@lgbtqia.space · 1d *

J. @diametrijenesis@lgbtqia.space

https://action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025

"A new executive order has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. The Executive Order says that IMLS must be reduced to its "statutory functions.””

Stand by your local library and libraries across the country: sign your name to the petition by clicking the link above.

You can also follow this link (https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577 [oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net]) to tell congress your library story—share the impact that your library has had on your community.

EveryLibrary ActionPETITION: Stop Trump's E.O. Attacks on Federal Funding for LibrariesIn a new executive order, President Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. The Executive Order says that IMLS must be reduced to its "statutory functions.” We need your help.

#libraries #museums

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**Robert Kingett** @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social · 2d

Robert Kingett @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social

How I find most books these days is just browsing my libraries genre tag or seeing if my favorite narrators narrated something new. #Books #Library #Libraries @bookstodon

**Nonilex** @Nonilex@masto.ai · 2d *

Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai

It comes from a loose coalition of #archivists & #librarians, who are standing athwart #history & yelling “Save!” They belong to organizations such as the #InternetArchive, which co-created a project called the End of Term Web Archive to back up the federal web in 2008; the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, or #edgi; & #libraries at major #universities such as #MIT & the University of #Michigan.

#DigitalBookBurning #TrumpPurge #InfoSec

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**petersuber** @petersuber@fediscience.org · 2025-03-15T16:05:01.000Z

petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

Update. "#Trump Executive Order Targets #IMLS for Closure"
https://www.wordsandmoney.com/trump-executive-order-targets-imls-for-closure/

"In a March 14 Executive Order, President Donald Trump has targeted seven more federal agencies for permanent closure, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

If some parts of IMLS are "statutorily required" and cannot be shut down by an executive order, the #OMB has seven days to show it.

"EveryLibrary is hosting a petition [to keep IMLS open]…The American Library Association has…weighed in with a statement."

Words & Money · 3dTrump Executive Order Targets IMLS for ClosureIn a March 14 Executive Order, President Donald Trump has targeted seven more federal agencies for permanent closure, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The order states that the president has determined IMLS is “unnecessary” and gave agency officials seven days to submit a report to the OMB

#DefendResearch #Funding #Libraries

**Ma Quest** @MaQuest@mastodon.green · 2d

Ma Quest @MaQuest@mastodon.green

"Our library supports storytellers globally to create impactful content that can inspire change and optimism for our planet."
https://openplanet.org/
#Libraries #SolarPunkSunday

Open PlanetDiscover world-class footage of our changing planet.Open Planet is a global library of high-quality climate and nature footage. It is free to use for educational, environmental and impact storytelling.

**steve mookie kong** @mookie@chow.fan · 3d *

steve mookie kong @mookie@chow.fan

The concept of community and sharing has been lost in society. Libraries are great because they are for the community. Buy a book for everyone to share. The selfishness is disturbing and shameful.

@molly0xfff / @stux

#library #libraries #books

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/114168934616292885

Tweet by Molly White @molly0xFFF
it's always fascinating to watch grown adults discover the concept of public libraries for the first time

Quoted tweet by Ken Herman @kherman
Ponderable?

And do free people expect to read every book they want to read for free (at public expense)?

After all, many people who write and produce the books do expect a return on their effort and investment.

Just a thought.

Hachyderm.ioMolly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)Attached: 2 images every damn time #libraries

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**Molly White** @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io · 3d

Molly White @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

every damn time

#libraries

**infoDOCKET** @infodocket@newsie.social · 3d

infoDOCKET @infodocket@newsie.social

American Library Association (ALA) Statement on White House Assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/15/ala-statement-on-white-house-assault-on-the-institute-of-museum-and-library-services/ #libraries #museums #IMLS

**Molly White** @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io · 3d

Molly White @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

get library cards and use them often (online e-book and audiobook rentals count!). sign up to volunteer at your local library. donate money to your library’s general fund. run for a spot on the library board.

join and participate in your local “friends of the library” group. donate books (if your library accepts book donations). set up your own little free library. vote for library funding when it’s on your local ballot.

A sparkly vinyl sticker reading “vigilante librarian” in blackletter font

#libraries

**Molly White** @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io · 3d

Molly White @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

fill out comment cards to leave positive comments. request new materials that you’d like to see added to the stacks. like and share your library’s social media content.

#libraries

**azteclady** @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club · 2025-03-08T13:30:00.000Z

azteclady @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia
"The guide to contested Illinois public school board elections, taking place April 1, is live.

This guide is different from the public library guide, in that it's intended to be 1. collaborative and 2. an exercise in how to find info on local elections."

#Libraries #Illinois #BookBans

https://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/the-illinois-library-lovers-guide-to-public/

Well Sourced by Kelly Jensen · Mar 8The Illinois Library Lovers Guide to Public Library Elections, April 1, 2025By Well Sourced by Kelly Jensen

**Nina Bernstein** @NinaBernstein1@journa.host · 2025-03-14T10:00:00.000Z

Nina Bernstein @NinaBernstein1@journa.host

The Guerrilla-Librarian Resistance

“My dad’s from Bosnia, and that’s informed my outlook on what can be irretrievably lost,” he said, citing the destruction of nearly two million books when Sarajevo’s National Library was shelled in 1992. Now he’s teaching dozens of Americans to save data from their own rogue government
#libraries #DOGE #RESIST
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge

The New Yorker · 5dThe Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s PurgeBy Julian Lucas

**Bob Tregilus** @elaterite@fosstodon.org · 4d

Bob Tregilus @elaterite@fosstodon.org

Love these steps! Like I've often said, "Books decorate our minds and our walls!" And, apparently, they can decorate our steps as well!

A color photo of the side of a brick building. A painted over window is on the left. It reads, "Antiques, vintage furniture, dust collectors." Painted on the wall on the right, as though it were a scroll, it reads, "We sell antiques, furniture, etc." The light blue door in the middle with a small rectangular window over it, reads, "Private do not enter. Junkee," with an arrow pointing to the left. There are five steps leading up to the door. Each step is painted like the binding of a book. They read from bottom to top, (1) Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll on a red binding; (2) The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum on a violet colored binding; (3) Where the Sidewalk Ends Silverstein on a white binding; (4) The Outsiders SS Hinton on a yellow binding, and; (5) Lord of the Flies William Golding on a green binding.

#Books #Libraries #Reading

**Mark Wyner Won’t Comply** @markwyner@mas.to · 5d

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply @markwyner@mas.to

A little library humor to brighten your day. Seen at my local library.

Thank you, mysterious Cathy.

Library book return box on an external wall. There are two self-printed signs below it. The first one reads “drop box is broken! Please visit Cathy inside to return books.” The second one reads “update! Drop box is not broken! Cathy is just super lonely and wants to talk to you about her nine ferrets.”

#Library #Libraries #Librarians

**petersuber** @petersuber@fediscience.org · 5d

petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org

Update. "A Call for Harm Reduction Strategies"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/a-call-for-harm-reduction-strategies

"The new US presidential administration has launched an unprecedented assault on research and higher education. This isn’t just collateral damage from wide-ranging realignment of budgets, which would be bad enough, but an orchestrated attack on academic freedom, research funding, and the institutional autonomy that underpins intellectual progress…Resistance is most effective when collective action amplifies individual efforts rather than occurring in isolation. This means fostering more frequent and open dialogue across all sectors of the academic and research community [e.g. #libraries and #publishers]."

Katina Magazine | Annual ReviewsA Call for Harm Reduction StrategiesThe Trump administration has launched an orchestrated attack on academic freedom, research funding, and the institutional autonomy that underpins intellectual progress. We must act now, together.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns