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over the weekend that libraries across the country are cutting programs that offer ebooks, audiobooks and other loan programs . These initiatives exploded in popularity following the pandemic, with over 660 million people globally borrowing them in 2023 — a 19 percent annual increase.
The cuts and slashing of grants followed a Trump executive order issued on March 14 targeting the Institute of Museum and Library Services . His appointee to helm the agency, Keith E. Sonderling, quickly signaled that he was there to do the president's bidding. Hethe IMLS's entire staff on administrative leave, sent termination notices to most of them, canceled grants and contracts and fired everyone on the National Museum and Library Services Board.from 21 states and the American Library Association make their way through the courts, the agency's federal funding remains frozen. And libraries are scrambling to adjust., there's a good chance federal funding made that possible. Libraries purchase digital leases for ebooks and audiobooks from publishers, enabling them to lend titles to patrons. The leases typically cost much more than physical copies and must be renewed after a set period or number of checkouts. With library digital borrowing surging, those federal funds went a long way toward keeping the programs afloat. Mississippi has indefinitely suspended its Hoopla-based lending program. The IMLS was created in 1996 by a Republican-controlled US Congress. The agency has an annual budget of under $300 million, with nearly half of that amount allocated to state libraries, which, in turn, help fund local libraries' digital lending programs."The small library systems are not able to pay for the ebooks themselves," Rebecca Wendt, California's state library director, told the
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