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Report: DOGE Order Leads to Journal Cancellation by U.S. Agricultural Library
From Science: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various […]
Roundup: Library Funding and Trump’s Executive Order (Press Reports)
Colorado Trump Order Threatens Federal Funding For Colorado’s Libraries, Museums (via 9News) Kentucky Trump Cuts Could Mean Kentucky Libraries, Universities and Museums Lose Millions (via Lexington Herald-Leader) Washington Washington Libraries Concerned Over Trump’s Executive Order (via KING5) Last Update: March 18, 2025; 3:15pm See Also: Statements in Response to Executive Order Impacting the Institute of […]
Journal Article: “Making an Open Information Literacy Textbook: A Case Study in OER Collaborations Among Four Oklahoma Academic Librarians”
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of New Librarianship. Title Making an Open Information Literacy Textbook: A Case Study in OER Collaborations Among Four Oklahoma Academic Librarians Authors Calantha Tillotson University of Tennessee Knoxville Adam Brennan Tulsa Community College S R Whittle Northeastern State University Jamie Holmes Tulsa Community College Source […]
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Op/Ed: When Funding Feeds Starvation
Ed. Note: infoDOCKET would like to thank Sandi Caldrone for contributing the op/ed shared below. When Funding Feeds Starvation by Sandi Caldrone Assistant Professor, University Library Research Data Librarian University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign caldron2@illinois.edu In a misguided quest for efficiency, the NIH recently announced it was limiting indirect costs to 15 percent of grant award funds. […]
Roundup: Statements in Response to Executive Order Impacting the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
We will continue to update this roundup as we learn of additional statements. Last Update: 12:30pm; March 18, 2025 AAM Statement on the Executive Order, Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy (via American Alliance of Museums) American Library Association (ALA) ARC Condemns Executive Order “Eliminating” Federal Museum Agency (via Artists at Risk Coalition) Chief […]
Arkansas Senator Continues Mission to Eliminate State Library Board, Cites Unfulfilled Bargain; Iowa: How Des Moines Public Library is Navigating Librarian Cuts, Possible Iowa Law Changes; Virginia Lawmakers Direct Researchers to Review Book Bans…”;
AI Silverchair’s AI Lab Delivers Oxford Academic AI Discovery Assistant for Dynamic Research Support Arkansas Arkansas Senator Continues Mission to Eliminate State Library Board, Cites Unfulfilled Bargain DC (District of Columbia) DC Public Library to Introduce New Online Catalog (via DCPL) Iowa How Des Moines Public Library is Navigating Librarian Cuts, Possible Iowa Law Changes […]
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Roundup: Top 15 Librarians in Pop Culture; There’s a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat; & More Headlines
AI Artificial Intelligence and Communication Technologies in Academia: Faculty Perceptions and the Adoption of Generative AI (via International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education) There’s a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat (via WSJ/MSN) Digital Libraries Now Available: Proceedings From JCDL ’24: 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Hong Kong Future […]
American Library Association (ALA) Statement on White House Assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Latest UPDATE (March 17): “What Happens to Libraries If IMLS Goes Away?” (by Hallie Rich, Library Journal) On Friday night, March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order that called for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and six other agencies. In FY24, the IMLS budget was $294.8 million, of […]
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Journal Article: “Book Bans in American Libraries: Impact of Politics on Inclusive Content Consumption”
The article linked below was recently published by the journal, Marketing Science. Title Book Bans in American Libraries: Impact of Politics on Inclusive Content Consumption Authors Uttara M. Ananthakrishnan Carnegie Mellon University Naveen Basavaraj Carnegie Mellon University Sabari Rajan Karmegam George Mason University Ananya Sen Carnegie Mellon University Michael D. Smith Carnegie Mellon University Source […]
EveryLibrary: “Statement on Trump’s Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries”
Full Text of an EveryLibrary Statement re: IMLS Funding: In 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 states that IMLS must be reduced to […]
