Amer Library Assn statement

[XanaDUer2]

https://www.ala.org/news/2025/03/ala-statement-white-house-assault-institute-museum-and-library-services

Trump does not care what libraries do for any average person.

[madaboutharry]

1. Trump is a lazy uncouth ignoramus who never sets foot in a museum or library.

He probably hasn't read a book in over 50 years.

With each passing hour, I loathe him more.

[Ocelot II]

2. Just this morning I went to a lecture at a local branch of our very large county library

about how to find information about your house (when it was built, architects, who owned it, etc). It was fascinating to find out how much data the library had compiled about the history of the city. There's an enormous amount of information that the library had collected and put online for anyone to research - old plat maps, lot surveys, even building permit information going back to 1885 - my house is older than that but I found out it got electricity in 1906! Libraries do this sort of thing; they don't just check out books. Our big library will survive, but even the relatively minor amount of federal funding can mean a lot to the small rural libraries who need it most.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Most PLs are locally funded

By property taxes. But I should know, but I don't, how fuckface doing this might effect other libraries' funding. Maybe some will close.

[Ocelot II]

4. Yes, that's why I don't worry much about our local library,

but this agency does help libraries and museums by providing grant money for educational and community projects. Before Musk takes the site down, here's what they do: https://www.imls.gov/find-funding/funding-opportunities/grant-programs

Guess what: They offer grants for projects furthering minority/POC museum collections. Can't have that, can we??

[XanaDUer2]

5. Ty

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