Präsident Trump greift das Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) an (die IMLS-Website ist bereits nicht mehr online). Everylibrary reagiert (via infodocket.com):
“The Executive Order states that IMLS must be reduced to its “statutory functions.” It also requires that “non-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. 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. This core work cannot be disrupted by DOGE.
Congress was very clear in the 2018 Museum and Library Services Act that IMLS is statutorily required (by Sec 9133 of the law) to send federal funding to state libraries under the Grants to States program (under Sec. 9141 of the law). Congress created this federal block grant program to support and extend library services in all the states through the state libraries. While other grant programs within IMLS are discretionary, the Grants to States program is written as a “shall”. This means that Congress enacted the Museum and Library Services Act to strengthen and support state libraries, including their vital work supporting interlibrary loans, statewide databases and collections, and systems of support to individual public, school, and academic libraries.”