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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.

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MSNBC · Trump order targets ‘improper’ ideology at the Smithsonian InstitutionBy Steve Benen
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#Trump issued an #ExecutiveOrder Thurs evening promising to eliminate “corrosive” & “divisive narratives” from the #Smithsonian’s museums & restore “monuments, memorials, statues, markers” removed over the past 5 yrs.

The “Restoring Truth & Sanity to #AmericanHistory” order directs #JDVance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its #museums, #education & #research centers, & the National Zoo to remove “anti-American ideology.”

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The White House · Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American HistoryRESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology' - He signed an executive order putting Vice President JD Vance in charge of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo. #Coup #AmericanCoup #Museums #Smithsonian #Fascism #ThisIsFascism #RepublicansDidThis #politics #USPol apnews.com/article/trump-smith

FILE- People wait in line to enter the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Cultural on the National Mall in Washington, Mat 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
AP News · Trump order on Smithsonian targets programs with 'improper ideology'By Darlene Superville
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alojapan.com/1225940/all-about All About the Nintendo Museum Opening in Kyoto, Japan – PrestigeOnline Hong Kong #asia #Japan #JapanGuide #Kyoto #KyotoTopics #museums #MuseumsInJapan #Nintendo #travel #京都 #京都府 Gamers are familiar with the craze of Nintendo who enjoy an equal monopoly in the card and video games sector. Bringing its journey to a full circle, Nintendo is gearing up to inaugurate its first-ever museum in Kyoto’s Uji City in Japan. The museum is housed in a ren…

All About the Nintendo Museum Opening in Kyoto, Japan – PrestigeOnline Hong Kong
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Support the IMLS

If you’ve found useful the many mid-20th century serials that are now freely readable online through The Online Books Page, you can thank the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The IMLS (as it’s generally known) funded the completion in 2018 of a survey of copyrights I led for serials published before 1950. The completed survey made it possible for the first time to quickly ascertain the public domain status of decades of serials. It also laid the groundwork for our bigger Deep Backfile project that now documents rights and free online availability for well over 10,000 serials. I’d say that’s a pretty good return on a $25,000 IMLS investment.

The IMLS has made that kind of investment many times over, with libraries and museums across all 50 states. The IMLS makes a lot of mostly modest grants for projects and programs that make a big difference in the communities libraries and museums serve. You can read about a sampling of them in Devon Akmon’s recent Conversation article. Or you can ask your local librarian or museum curator. They may tell you how the IMLS supports them providing access to information online, promoting literacy, preserving unique parts of our country’s cultural heritage, and many other functions. They do it with a budget that requires less than $1 per American per year. It’s hard to imagine a more efficient use of government funds.

Despite its efficiency, the IMLS has been a recurrent target for elimination. The first Trump administration proposed eliminating the IMLS starting with its first budget request. But Congress listened to its constituents and continued to fund it. This time, however, Trump has tried to shut it down on his own, without involving Congress. He issued an executive order for IMLS’s activities to be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law”, aiming to “effectuate an expected termination” of the agency. He also appointed a new acting director who’s pledged to act “in lockstep with this Administration” to carry out the president’s wishes.

So far, Trump has been unable to completely shut down the organization, as he has managed with some other agencies. When IMLS remote staffers got word that the new acting director and some of Elon Musk’s DOGE workers were going to come to the IMLS office last Thursday, they reported to the office in person, many of them dressed in formal (or funereal) black. Faced with more people than DOGE expected, an anonymous staffer related that “instead of laying everybody off immediately they left the building, because they didn’t want to create a scene with us there. Otherwise, they would have locked the doors and taken over our systems and sent a mass notification out to everyone.”

As I write this, IMLS is still operating. But in the next week, the new acting director may try to cut off its funding to libraries and museums. Or, he could try to make libraries and museums receiving funds to change their programs and collection policies to conform to his preferences, or Trump’s. The acting director has already issued a press release expressing his intent to”restore focus on patriotism”. And the president has not been hesitant to cut funding to institutions to make them change their programs to his liking, as some have now agreed to.

But right now, there’s still time for us who value libraries and museums to make our voices heard. We can tell our lawmakers that the IMLS should continue to be fully supported, and should support all the libraries and museums whose diverse programs and collections help make our country great. If you want to participate, see the calls to action at EveryLibrary and the American Alliance of Museums.

onlinebooks.library.upenn.eduFree online journals, magazines, newspapers, and other serials | The Online Books Page
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking

DOGE is seizing the Institute of #Museum & #Library Service.
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"There are [Dept] of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to #museums & #libraries.”

“There is no efficiency argument when #IMLS represents just 0.0046% of the federal budget, while museums generate $50 billion in economic impact”

Headline and text from The New Republic: Elon Musk’s DOGE Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking DOGE is seizing the Institute of Museum and Library Service. by Malcolm Ferguson March 21, 2025 / 10:25 a.m. ET Department of Government Efficiency operatives have found their new target: your local library. Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE infiltrated the Institute of Museum and Library Services on Thursday, according to multiple sources.
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