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March 23, 2018 by Gary Price

IMLS Receives Funding Increase for Remainder of FY 2018 + Comments From ALA President James Neal

March 23, 2018 by Gary Price

From IMLS (Institute of Museum  and Library Services):

Today, President Donald Trump signed into law a $1.3 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through the end of September 2018.
The legislation includes $240 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is $9,000,000 above the FY 2017 enacted funding.
The legislation includes increases over FY 2017 enacted funding levels for the following programs and offices.
*   Grants to States (+$4,700,000)
*   Native American Library Services and Native Hawaiian Library Services (+$1,000,000)
*   Museums for America (+$1,750,000)
*   Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (+$500,000)
*   Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (+$750,000)
*   Research, Evaluation, Data Collection (+$300,000)
Funding levels for IMLS administration and other programs remain at their current enacted levels.
“The increases in IMLS’s Fiscal Year 2018 appropriations are an acknowledgement of the enduring value of our nation’s museums and libraries,” said IMLS Director Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew. “We are honored to be able to carry out our strategic role in support of America’s museums and libraries and their transformative work for communities.”
Direct to Complete IMLS Appropriations Table FY16-FY18

Statement (Full Text) by ALA President James Neal:

We are thrilled that Congress has passed an FY2018 omnibus spending bill today that includes significant federal funding increases for our nation’s libraries!
One year ago, the White House proposed eliminating the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and slashed millions of dollars in federal funding for libraries. Twelve months and tireless advocacy efforts later, ALA advocates have helped libraries:

  • win $9 million more for IMLS than it had in FY 2017, including $5.7 million for the Library Services and Technology Act.
  • restore $27 million for the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program.
  • provide $350 million for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

Congress also appropriated an unexpected $700 million for Title IV education programs, which opens doors to new funding for school libraries.
On top of the good news about funding for libraries, Congress added a policy provision that has been on our advocacy agenda for years: Congressional Research Services (CRS) reports will now be published online by the Library of Congress, ensuring for the first time permanent public access to valuable government information.
The path through the FY2018 appropriations process has been long. One lesson from this budget cycle is that when libraries speak, decision-makers listen. At critical points in the process last year, ALA members from every U.S. congressional district responded to our calls to action. As a result, a record number of representatives and senators signed our FY 2018 “dear appropriator” letters last spring. As the House and Senate Appropriations Committees worked on their respective bills last summer, ALA members made more targeted phone calls and visits and leveraged their local media to tell their library stories. Our advocacy earned bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress.
The persistence of library advocates has paid off for every single community in our nation, from big cities to small towns. This is a time to honor the power of ALA’s advocacy.
This is also a time to strengthen our resolve. The FY2018 budget passage represents a major win for libraries – a win that needs to fuel even more aggressive efforts to advocate for federal library funding in FY2019.
To protect federal library funding, we need to keep reminding Congress that libraries bring leaders and experts together to solve difficult problems, that we deliver opportunities, from academic success to work-readiness. We need to invite elected leaders into our libraries to see what we do for their constituents with a small investment of federal dollars. And we need to engage our library users and other community leaders in this important work.

UPDATE: Statement from National Endowment for the Humanities re: FY 18 Budget

Filed under: Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Reports, School Libraries

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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