A lot of libraries depend on IMLS grants! If they go away we will lose librarians and libraries may close, or at least significantly decrease their services. This will affect funding for technology classes, free resources for the blind, summer reading, databases, free internet access assistance, and interlibrary loans among other things. As the administration also targets social security, immigration, and other safety nets, libraries are attempting to fill the gap for the public, and things will get much harder without reliable funding.

This is also IN ADDITION to the administration calling book bans "fake" and some states attempting to pass laws to criminalize librarians, with fears in the library world that they will also try to make it a federal crime to promote or otherwise provide access to "inappropriate materials" which have included books that promote "gender ideology" or basically any character that isn't a white hetero cis man. That is one of the cornerstones of Project 2025. This IMLS takeover will only make things worse, and make it harder for people to access information.

Personally, we have been told by our director to be very careful and not talk about this while at work because of fears of retaliation, we have had several calls from the public to remove books with gay characters (we didn't), and as an adult services librarian, I am already seeing an impact on databases I help the public use. Medline Plus, the only free and easy-to-use medical encyclopedia for the public I have been able to find, is a US government website and already has warnings above certain pages about the "harms of gender ideology". This warning can be seen above pages on health disparities and abortion.

If you're so inclined and live in the US, the ALA put together a portal that makes it easy to email your reps with a script. You can find the portal here. I would also recommend investing in your local library, post on social media what services you use, sign up for a library card and see how many resources you can access for free. Many state library associations collect user stories of libraries so they can show their stakeholders they matter. Like my library, it is likely that staff have been warned not to discuss this at work because of fears of retaliation, so try not to talk to librarians about this at work.

General advocacy page:

Article from NPR about the takeover:

What happens if IMLS goes away:

A report on how much museums give back to the US economy:

An interactive map of what IMLS funds in the US:

It gave each muppet and the occasional guest their own typeface!

I thought you might like this, too, including identifying what Letraset era fonts they went with.

There's a photo limit of 10 pictures, I will be back with more. Please let me know if I'm being annoying.

Kermit is in Art Gothic (1885) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont]:

Miss Piggy is in Sweetheart (1973 or earlier) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

Sgt. Floyd Pepper is in Yagi Link Double (1968) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

Dr. Teeth is in Benguiat Laurent (1968 or earlier) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use], with the Psychemat effect applied:

There's a clearer example of the same effect here.

Zoot is in ITC Neon (1970) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

Janice is in Crayonette (1889) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

Animal is in Shatter (1973) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use · Identifont]:

Fozzie Bear is probably in Hoopla (1976 or earlier) [Fonts In Use], though I can't find a sample to make sure. So here's Scorpio (1968) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use], which is very similar:

Statler is in Interline (1876) [Fonts In Use]:

Waldorf is in a version of Interline with the pattern removed, but I don't know when that version was created.

Crazy Harry is in Burst Caps (1967 or earlier) [Daylight Fonts · Fonts In Use]:

Clara Bow, c. 1933.

Quick easy methods:

Anna's Archive (combines results from numerous other download sites like LibGen, Sci-Hub, zlibrary, IPFS, etc. extremely popular and successful, check this Wikipedia page for working links, since they change)

Scribd (very irritating because they keep trying to get you to pay, but noteworthy because its all user-uploaded with little oversight, leading to some weird, unusual, rare, and diverse offerings.

Things that aren't technically "piracy" (and thus not as cool), but still very helpful:

Internet Archive (more older books, but you might be surprised how many modern ones they have)