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Sune 🍞
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Professional museum person in the US, evaluator, trash animal enthusiast (she/they)
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sunpanbreadroll.bsky.social
Screenshot in case the main post gets taken down
Screenshot of a reddit post on r/fednews that reads: DOGE is at the Institue of Museum and Library Services right now, AM 03/20, to shut down the agency The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down. Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building (955 L'Enfant Plaza) and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There is no major reporting on the death of IMLS. There are Deparment of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries. IMLS offices are on the 4th floor of 955 L'Enfant. There is no media present to document this efficiency saving of .004% of the federal budget. Every library system in the country receives these grants. Museums in every state depend on them. Every penny disbursed is American tax dollars back in American communities. This is one of the 7 federal agencies offered up as a needless sacrificial lamb in the catastrophic resolution and last week's EO.
March 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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garius.bsky.social
This is recounted in Elyse Graham's "Book and Dagger" which looks at the role of scholars and librarians in clandestine activity in WW2. Worth picking up.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the…
The riveting, untold story of the scholars, librarians,…
www.goodreads.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
sunpanbreadroll.bsky.social
I'll figure out my capacity for anger and action later but right now is floor time. We all deserve floor time.
March 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM