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Listen: “Trump Directs Cuts to Library Funding” (ALA President Cindy Hohl Speaks to “Here & Now” From WBUR/NPR)
From Here & Now: Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with American Library Association president Cindy Hohl, a Kansas City, Missouri, librarian, about concerns her organization has about cuts that the Trump administration wants to make to the only federal agency that provides funds to libraries. Source
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 Petaluma Historical Library and Museum Raises Alarm About Local Impact of President Trump’s Executive Order (via Northern CA Public Media) Colorado Trump Order Threatens Federal Funding For […]
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. […]
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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. Latest Additions (Last Update: 12:10pm; March 22, 2025) ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) & ASIST (Association for Information Science and Technology): Joint Statement AMIA: Association of Moving Image Archivists PEN America: Gutting Federal Library and Museum Funding Agency Will […]
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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New From CNI: “Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems” (Final Report)
From a Coalition For Networked Information Post by Cliff Lynch: Today, we release inaugural CNI Senior Scholar Donald J. Waters’s final report: Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems. Written with extensive community input, the report explores how research universities can tackle complex societal challenges, particularly climate change, a “wicked” problem involving […]
Arkansas State Library Board Approves Proposal Aimed at Keeping It; Meanwhile, Lawmaker Introduces Language in Appropriation Bill to Prohibit Funds to ALA-Affiliated Libraries
From the Arkansas Advocate: The Arkansas State Library Board approved a motion to create “non-binding policies to protect children” in the state’s public libraries at a special meeting conducted via videoconference Thursday afternoon. Lupe Peña de Martinez of Mabelvale, the board member who proposed the motion, said she spoke “at length” with Republican state Sen. […]
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Journal Article: “Promoting AI Literacy Through U.S. Academic Libraries: An Analysis Of LibGuides From ARL and Oberlin Group Libraries Using the EDUCAUSE AI Literacy Framework”
The article linked below was recently published by Information Research (IR). Title Promoting AI Literacy Through U.S. Academic Libraries: An Analysis Of LibGuides From ARL and Oberlin Group Libraries Using the EDUCAUSE AI Literacy Framework Authors Ko Chun Ru National Taiwan Normal University Rong Tang Simmons University Source Information Research Vol. 30 No. iConf (2025) […]
New Findings: “Tracking the AI Evolution in Research Libraries: Findings from ARL’s Third AI Quick Poll”
From an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Post by Leo Lo (U. of New Mexico) & Cynthia Hudson-Vitale (Johns Hopkins University): The third and latest poll in this ongoing series, conducted in January 2025, provides insights from 40 ARL library deans and directors about how their institutions are integrating and responding to AI technologies. This […]
