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MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants.

Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries

"Withdrawing library grants is a callous move at any time, but downright cruel at a time when it's getting harder for many Americans to make ends meet - most of all, in small and rural communities. The White House may have no qualms about slashing opportunity for jobseekers, students, veterans and families, but Congress has the power to restore support for services their constituencies rely on." - ALA President Cindy Hohl. American Library Association, Show up for our libraries

April 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM

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American Library Association

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ALA is deeply concerned by reports that IMLS is sending notices to libraries claiming to cancel grants that are required by law. This harmful action will disrupt libraries' ability to serve their communities.
Tell Congress to protect library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
#ForOurLibraries

Call Congress for our libraries. Show up for our libraries. American library association.

April 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM

Ellenoftheways

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American Library Association annual conference approved!

March 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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Greg Andree

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Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

February 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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Tom Cox

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

A tree - possibly an ent - with legs, arms and an unusually large bellybutton.

February 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM

Ellenoftheways

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www.reddit.com/r/Pennsylvan...

From the Pennsylvania community on Reddit: The people gathered for the 50501 Harrisburg protest

Explore this post and more from the Pennsylvania community

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February 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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An Leavy

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I haven’t lived through the collapse of a civilisation before

I study history so I have read the guidebooks, but they don’t quite capture the experience of being there

January 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM

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danah boyd

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As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression. www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...