After Trump’s order, after the order to terminate the library small agency cut back on the employees

Ney York: After suspending millions of dollars in federal grants by the Trump administration, library across the United States is cutting back on e-books, audibooks and debt programs as it tries to dissolve the institute of museum and library services.Federal Judgfes has issued temporary orders to stop the Trump administration from taking any further steps towards advancing the agency. But the unexpected slashing of the grant has given a significant blow to many libraries, which are reshuffling the budget and looking at various ways to raise money. Main has closed the fifth of his employees and temporarily closed its state library after not receiving the remaining part of his annual funding. Libraries in Mississippi have stopped offering a popular e-book service indefinitely, and the South Dakota State Library has suspended its interlebrary loan program. The e -book and audibook programs are particularly unsafe for budget cuts, even though those offerings have exploded popularity since the Kovid -19 epidemic.

“I think everyone should know that the cost of providing digital sources is very expensive for most libraries,” said Cindy Hohal, president of the American Library Association. “It is a constant and growing need.” Library officials caught guard due to Trump’s cut President Donald Trump issued an executive order on 14 March to end the IML before taking out almost all his employees. A month later, the Maine State Library announced that this IMLS is issuing pruning notices for funded workers through grant program. “It was quite surprised to all of us,” said Davis, a generalist Spencer of a library of the main state library. In April, California, Washington and Connecticut were only three states that received letters receiving letters, stating that their funds for the year were canceled, Hohl said. For others, the money has not yet been distributed. The three states filed formal objections with IMLS. Rebecca Vendt, director of the California State Library, said she was never explained why California’s funding was abolished, while other remaining states did not receive the same notice. “We are mysterious,” said Wandt. The agency did not respond to the email seeking remarks. Popular digital offerings on chopping blocks Most libraries are funded by the city and county governments, but their state libraries receive a small portion of their budget, which receive federal dollars every year in paying summer reading programs, interleibrible loan services and digital books. Libraries in rural areas rely on more federal grants than those in cities. Many states use funds to pay for e-books and audiobooks, which are rapidly popular, and expensive, offerings. In 2023, more than 660 million people borrowed e-books, audibooks and digital magazines globally, above 19 percent in 2022, according to overdrive, the chief distributor of digital materials for libraries and schools. In Mississippi, the State Library helped to fund its statewide e-book program. For a few days, Erin Busby was the carriers of bad news for the readers in their Mississippi Library: a popular app to check Hupala, e-books and audiobooks was suspended indefinitely in Londase and Disoty Countesses due to funding freeze. “People are calling and asking, why can’t I reach my books on Hupala?” The library system also had to stop parts of its interleibrible loan system, allowing readers to borrow books from other states when they are not locally available. “For most libraries that were using federal dollars, they had to reduce the activities,” said Hullen Bivins, Executive Director of the Mississippi Library Commission. State funding is fighting freeze Around 70 staff members of the agency were placed on administrative leave in March. In 21 states, the Attorney General and the American Library Association have filed cases against the Trump administration to destroy the agency. The annual budget of the institute is below USD 300 million and distribute less than half of the state libraries across the country. In California, the state library was informed that a grant of US $ 15 million was abolished about 20 percent or USD 3 million. “Small library systems themselves are not able to pay for e-books,” the California State Librarian Vendet said. According to the South Dakota Deck Wide, in South Dakota, the state’s Interlibrary Loan Program is on hold, the spokesperson of the South Dakota Department of Education. The institute, established by a Republican-controlled Congress in 1996, also supports a national library training program in the name of former first female Laura Bush, which wants to recruit and train Librarian from various or underpared backgrounds. A spokesperson of Bush did not return the request to seek comments. “Library funding is never strong. It is always a point of discussion. It always happens something you need to advocate,” said Liz Docket, director of the library in the Curtis Memorial Library in the Main. “It is just adding general anxiety.”