EveryLibrary Launches Platform to Save IMLS

Mar 19, 2025

Following President Trump's executive order targeting the Institute of Museum and Library Services, EveryLibrary has launched SaveIMLS.org, where library supporters can contact their representatives, sign petitions, donate, and learn about the IMLS. 

The IMLS is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. Trump's recent executive order mandates that the IMLS must be reduced to its "statutory functions" and requires that "not-statutory components and functions... shall be eliminated to the maximum extent." 

"We are extremely concerned that the wording of this E.O. could result in cuts to the core functions of IMLS," writes EveryLibrary. "The Administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have used similar E.O.s to dismantle the other federal agencies. IMLS’s statutory obligations to state libraries include federal funding through the Grants to States program, the National Leadership Grant program, and all current contracts, grants, and awards. This core work cannot be disrupted or dismantled by DOGE."

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