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Sarah Shreeves
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Librarian. Dean. Gardener. Fire eater.
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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...
May 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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does the white house think the LOC is a regular lending library
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? 

Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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It’s not an exaggeration to say that there would be no #DH as we know it without NEH and IMLS
April 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.
April 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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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.
March 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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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).
March 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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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.
March 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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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...
Statement on the Appointment of Keith E. Sonderling as Acting Director of IMLS
IMLS's mission must remain nonpartisan and nonpolitical and aligned with the statutory framework established by Congress.
www.everylibrary.org
March 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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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...
Trump administration seeks to starve libraries and museums of funding by shuttering this little-known agency
The consequences of shutting down the Institute of Museum and Library Services would be particularly dire for smaller museums and rural museums.
theconversation.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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
Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder – Knowledge Commons
about.hcommons.org
March 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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.) 📚https://www.infodocket.com/2025/03/18/roundup-library-funding-cuts/
Roundup: Library Funding and Trump’s Executive Order (Press Reports)
See Also: Statements in Response to Executive Order Impacting the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Alabama Trump Order Threatens Funding For Alabama Libraries (via ALPR) California Peta...
www.infodocket.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I am thinking of every IMLS worker today.
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
March 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Opinion: Viktor Orbán came for me. Donald Trump is coming for you. Here's what to do. chroni.cl/4izhG1L
How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime
Viktor Orbán came for me. Donald Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do.
chroni.cl
March 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Rats in the library tomorrow
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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
aihumanities.lib.utah.edu |
aihumanities.lib.utah.edu
January 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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" 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
December 17, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Love the COAR visual for #OAweek!
October 23, 2023 at 6:12 PM