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April 21, 2025 by Gary Price

Roundup: “Proposed Funding Cuts Could Reduce Access to Hawai’i Libraries”; “As Lawmakers Debate Library Funding, Ohioans Keep Showing Up:”; “Wisconsin Libraries Brace For Steep Drop in Services Under Federal Funding Cuts”; & More Headlines

Hawaii Proposed Funding Cuts Could Reduce Access to Hawai’i Libraries (via Hawaii Civil Beat) Iowa It’s Brutal:’ Sudden Grants Cuts Devastate Iowa Museums, Libraries and Cultural Nonprofits (Via Des Moines Register) Legal Rhode Island District Court Holds Motion Hearing on Fate of IMLS (via PW) See Also: Analysis/Comment on the Hearing by EveryLibrary Exec. Director, […]

April 5, 2025 by Gary Price

AI/Copyright Lawsuit Roundup: 1) “AI Company Can Seek Fast Appeal in Copyright Battle With Thomson Reuters, Judge Rules”; 2) “Judge Calls Out OpenAI’s ‘Straw Man’ Argument in New York Times Copyright Suit”; 3) US Authors’ Copyright Lawsuits Against Openai and Microsoft Combined In New York With Newspaper Actions

Three entries. 1) AI Company Can Seek Fast Appeal in Copyright Battle With Thomson Reuters, Judge Rules Artificial Intelligence company Ross Intelligence can immediately ask an appeals court to review a ruling that it infringed copyright by training its legal research service on material published by the competing service Westlaw, owned by Thomson Reuters, a […]

April 4, 2025 by Gary Price

News Roundup, Resources: Lawsuit Filed Over Cuts to IMLS, Federal Agencies

We will continue to add to this roundup as new material becomes available. Last Update: 7:45am Eastern on Saturday, April 5, 2025 From Library Journal: On Friday, April 4 attorneys general from 20 states filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration to stop the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as […]

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Report: “IMLS Staff Placed on Administrative Leave” (Includes Link to Letter Sent to IMLS Staff)

March 31, 2025 by Gary Price

From Federal News Network: The largest source of federal funding for libraries and museums is putting all its employees on paid administrative leave, as the agency prepares for major cuts to its operations. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) put all of its approximately 75-employee workforce on paid administrative leave Monday, according to […]

Roundup: Statements/Responses to Executive Order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”

March 28, 2025 by Gary Price

Last Updated: April 1, 2025 American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Defending Our Full, Shared History at the Smithsonian and National Park Service American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and Phi Beta Kappa Joint Statement in Support of the Smithsonian Institution American Historical Association (AHA) […]

Roundup: “Iowa Cannot, For Now, Continue to Enforce Part Of Its Book Ban Law, A Federal Judge Said Tuesday”; “Librarians Provide Insight on Book Bans, Minnesota State Law on Removal of Books From Libraries”; & More Headlines

March 26, 2025 by Gary Price

AI Anthropic Wins Early Round In Music Publishers’ AI Copyright Case (via Reuters) Alabama Airhope Public Library Supporters Raise Money to Replace Funds State Plans To Withhold (via Alabama Reflector) Alabama Halted a Library’s Funding. Supporters Raised Te Cash in Days (via Washington Post) Canada Independent Bookstores Fear Tariffs Will Devastate the Canadian Book Industry […]

Arkansas: Restrictions on Use of Arkansas State Library Funds Fail in Budget Subcommittee; Florida: Senate Committee Clarifies the Ways Books Can Be ‘Harmful to Minors’ in Schools; & More Headlines

March 19, 2025 by Gary Price

News Roundup Arkansas Restrictions on Use of Arkansas State Library Funds Fail in Budget Subcommittee (via Arkansas Advocate) Florida Senate Committee Clarifies the Ways Books Can be ‘Harmful to Minors’ in Schools (via Florida Phoenix) North Dakota North Dakota Legislators Hear Extensive Testimony on Controversial Library Bill (via Bismarck Tribune) ||| Archived Version Virginia Lynchburg […]

Roundup: Library Funding and Trump’s Executive Order (Press Reports)

March 18, 2025 by Gary Price

See Also: Statements in Response to Executive Order Impacting the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Last Update: April 1, 2025; 4:05pm Latest Entries CA: San Diego Public Libraries Brace for Budget Cuts (via Axios San Diego) IL: Libraries and Museums in Illinois are Hit by Trump Executive Order (via WGLT) ME: Maine’s Rural […]

Roundup: Statements in Response to Executive Order Impacting the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

March 17, 2025 by Gary Price

We will continue to update this roundup as we learn of additional statements. Latest Addition (Last Update: 8:15am; April 13, 2025) IL: Joint Statement (AISLE, CARLI, IHLS, ILA, RAILS) on Changes at the Institute of Museum and Library Services IMLS Cuts Put America’s Public Libraries at Risk (Joint Statement From the Association for Rural & […]

Roundup: Top 15 Librarians in Pop Culture; There’s a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat; & More Headlines

March 16, 2025 by Gary Price

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 […]

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