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Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (May 13-15, 2025)
Petition: Stop Trump's Attack on the Library of Congress (EveryLibrary, May 9, 2025)
"Librarian of Congress Firing is Latest Move in Upheaval of U.S. Cultural Institutions" (Andrew Limbong, NPR, May 9, 2025)
"President Trump Fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden" (Seung Min Kim et al., AP News, May 9, 2025)
"Minnesota Libraries Warn Federal Cuts May Hurt Services" (Elizabeth Shockman, MPR News, May 6, 2025)
Free for All: The Public Library (Documentary premiere, PBS, April 29, 2025)
"The Latest from IMLS and What You Need to Prepare for Right Now" (Kelly Jensen, Well Sourced, April 23, 2025)
Public Library People's Assembly Toolkit Launch (April 17, 2025)
"ACLU Sues Defense Department School System over Banning Race- and Gender-Related Books" (Olivia Diaz, APNews, April 16, 2025)
Academic Libraries and Threats to Intellectual Freedom: Where Do We Go From Here? (EveryLibrary Webinar, April 16, 2025)
"U.S. Army Libraries Target Books with a Focus on DEI or 'Gender Ideology' for Removal" (Tom Bowman, NPR, April 15, 2025
The Palestine Exception: Censorship in Academic Libraries (virtual event, April 10, 2025)
Banned Together (Documentary premiere, April 10, 2025)
"Being a Librarian Was Already Hard. Then Came the Trump Administration." (Rainesford Stauffer, The Guardian, April 7, 2025)
"Librarians Are Mad As Hell at the Trump Administration" (Brittany Wong, HuffPost, April 1, 2025)
"Library and museum support agency faces massive cuts." PBS NewsHour, 1 April 2025."IMLS Was Just Gutted" (Kelly Jensen, BookRiot, March 31, 2025)
"Reading Builds Empathy: The Case for Saving America's Libraries." (Melanie McFarland, Salon.com, March 30, 2025)
"Anticipatory Obedience at the Library of Congress" (Violet Fox, ACRLog, March 28, 2025)
Criminalization 202 for Information Workers (Webinar, March 27, 2025)
"Elon Musk's DOGE Moves to Gut Local Libraries while No One is Looking." (Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic, March 21, 2025)
"AI Bots are Destroying Open Access." (Eric Hellman, go-to-hellman.blogspot.com, March 21, 2025)
"U.S. Anti-Terror Legislation Must Not Be Weaponized Against Libraries" (Caroline Ball, Times Higher Ed, March 17, 2025)
"Library Funding Targeted In New Trump Executive Order: What It Means & What To Do Now" (Kelly Jensen, BookRiot, March 17, 2025)
Take Action to Save Federal Funding for Libraries (EveryLibrary)
"The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump's Purge" (Julian Lucas, New Yorker, March 14, 2025)
"Librarian Criminalization Bills Are Growing, But They're Not New" (Kelly Jensen, BookRiot, March 14, 2025)
"The Future is Not Perpetual (But it could be yours for just several thousand dollars per year…)" (Isaac Wink, The Scholarly Kitchen, March 5, 2025)
"Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, are Hosting it in Europe" (Jason Koebler, 404 Media, March 5, 2025)
Federal Employees Oral History Project (Organization of American Historians, March 4, 2025)
Call for Interoperable Ebook Standards in the Academic Book Market (February 25, 2025)
Libraries Supporting Data Rescue (February 24, 2025)
Analysis: Thousands of Webpages Documenting LGBTQ+ History, Healthcare, and Safety Have Been Censored (Mady Castigan, February 17, 2025)
Trump's Firing of U.S. Government Archivist Is Far Worse Than It Might Seem (Jared Keller, Fast Company February 12, 2025)
Tell Trump: Hands Off the National Archives (EveryLibrary petition)
A Shadow War on Libraries (Grant LaFleche and others, CBC News, February 7, 2025)
Protect IMLS from Indiscriminate Staffing Cuts (AAM petition, February 6, 2025)
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