Heard from a colleague who is a current member of #IMLS 's advisory board that the entire board has been "released" (fired) and that all IMLS staff have received #reductioninforce notices. Their last day of work will be in early May. I don't know what that means for IMLS-funded positions and projects at the state level, but it doesn't look good. You know you're governed by an #idiocracy when its leaders zero-out #libraries and #museums.
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DOGE has decimated the Institute of Museum and Library Services #libraries #museums #doge #IMLS https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doge-decimates-institute-museum-library-services-imls-2626543
'The death of Stanisław Żółkiewski at the Battle of Cecora' by Walery Eljasz Radzikowski (b.1841-d.1905)
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http://www.globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #museumjobs #news #jobs #artgallery
Frighteningly, #Mike_Pence is spot on. There is not an #Economist in the entire fucking world who thinks #TrumpTariffs are an intelligent thing to do. But then again the #GOP is closing #libraries, #museums, and #TheDepartmentOfEducation so they are on message. OMG I agree with #Mike_Pence. When you agree with #Mike_Pence, it's time to go to bed. Gnite.
Musk is really trying hard to transform the United States into a country of illiterates and uneducated persons...
"The Trump administration, working in coordination with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. In communities across the US, the cuts threaten student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to popular digital services, such as the ebook app Libby.
On Monday, managers at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) informed 77 employees—virtually the agency’s entire staff—that they were immediately being put on paid administrative leave, according to one of the workers, who sought anonymity out of fear of retaliation from Trump officials. Several other sources confirmed the move, which came after President Donald Trump appointed Keith Sonderling, the deputy secretary of labor, as the acting director of IMLS less than two weeks ago.
A representative for the American Federation of Government Employee Local 3403, a union that represents about 40 IMLS staffers, said Sonderling and a group of DOGE staffers met with IMLS leadership late last month. Afterwards, Sonderling sent an email to staff “emphasizing the importance of libraries and museums in cultivating the next generation’s perception of American exceptionalism and patriotism,” the union representative said in a statement to WIRED."
https://www.wired.com/story/institute-museum-library-services-layoffs/
WIRED · The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums
The #DOGE Axe Comes for #Libraries and #Museums
The Institute of #Museum and #Library Services has long received #bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald #Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.
#Musk
https://www.wired.com/story/institute-museum-library-services-layoffs/
WIRED · The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums
> Agency funding libraries and museums puts all employees on leave ahead of major cuts https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/03/agency-funding-libraries-and-museums-puts-all-employees-on-leave-ahead-of-major-cuts/
We always get the pedant mewling "it's an executive order, not law." True, but let me be blunt: who is going to stop him. It certainly ain't going to be you (so STFU with "it's just a memo") or the ineffectual #RepublicanLite.
Federal News Network · Agency funding libraries and museums puts all employees on leave ahead of major cuts
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Update. "Entire staff at federal agency that funds #libraries and #museums put on leave"
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services
"According to a statement from AFGE Local 3403, which represents #IMLS [Institute of Museum and Library Services] workers, the agency's staff was notified by email about being placed on paid administrative leave for 90 days after a "brief meeting between DOGE staff and IMLS leadership." Employees had to turn in government property, and email accounts were disabled."
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services
#IMLS staff put on *administrative leave*
The Institute of #Museum & #Library Services has placed its entire staff on administrative leave.
The IMLS is a relatively small federal agency, with around 70 employees, that awards grant funding to #museums & #libraries across the country.
#Trump #Musk #DOGE #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services
Art Museum of São Paulo Opens a New Building with 5 Exhibitions and Strengthens City's Exhibition Circuit
#politics #brazil #art #museums #GoodNews
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/culture/2025/03/masp-opens-a-new-building-with-5-exhibitions-and-strengthens-sao-paulos-exhibition-circuit.shtml?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=comptw
Folha de S.Paulo · Masp Opens a New Building with 5 Exhibitions and Strengthens Sﾃ｣o Paulo's Exhibition CircuitThe space features works by Renoir, Picasso, and Tarsila do Amaral
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The National Museum and Library Services Board (#NMLSB) just sent an open letter to #Trump's acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (#IMLS), Keith Sonderling.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/binary-data/ARTICLE_ATTACHMENT/file/000/006/6639-1.pdf
"It is our considered determination that the Museum and Library Services Act of 2018, as codified in Title 20 of the U.S. Code, outlines specific statutory mandates that cannot be paused, reduced, or eliminated without violating Congressional intent and federal statute…All such statutory obligations may not be discontinued or delayed under an Executive Order or other executive action."
#Trump annoyed the #Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas
« New executive order slams the museum for recognizing "race is not a biological reality." »
Ars Technica · Trump annoyed the Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas
#games #Chess #GLAM #museums #FIDE
"As part of its 2024 centenary celebrations, FIDE has unveiled an online museum tracing chess history from ancient times to modern tournaments. The Open Chess Museum endorsed by FIDE aims to become the world’s largest repository of chess artifacts, showcasing valuable items from every corner of the world and every era of chess history."
https://www.fide.com/fide-launches-first-digital-museum-dedicated-to-chess-history/
www.fide.comFIDE launches first digital museum dedicated to chess history – International Chess Federation
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http://www.globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery
Trump wants to reshape the Smithsonian . . . tasked with telling the story of America https://wapo.st/427CciI
Historian here.
Beware when they come for the #museums
Remember communism, when, as the joke went, the future is certain but the past is unpredictable?
The Washington Post · Trump wants to reshape the Smithsonian. Who funds the vast institution?
The latest target for Trump's crackdowns is the Smithsonian Institution and its museums and education and research centers. A new executive order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate "improper, divisive or anti-American" ideology from programs at the Institution, which receives federal funding. Here's more from MSNBC's MaddowBlog.
MSNBC · Trump order targets ‘improper’ ideology at the Smithsonian Institution