IMLS staff put on administrative leave : NPR
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave Monday morning, following a meeting between IML
As a current Special Collections library worker and former museum educator, my heart is so heavy tonight for my librarian, archivist, and museum professionals, and for the communities this will highly affect.
And I wonder how this will trickle down to my library in Massachusetts? I am already seeing it in my work- one project with a Presidental Library being frozen; another with the National Park Service is going forward but with warning that funding "will probably be pulled" and scrambling with our local colleagues and community partners to find alternative/increased funding for our "MA 250" programs since grants are being scrapped from the federal government.
How ironic... trying to create/fund programs and events to celebrate the creation of our country while it's literally being dismantled and destroyed by these idiots.
