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Latest on IMLS Court Cases
Advocacy Alert: June 10, 2025 ALA v. Sonderling On June 6, 2025, in the case ALA v. Sonderling filed by Democracy Forward on behalf of the American Library Association and the American …
May Advocacy Alert: IMLS Lawsuit, Take Action on Federal Funding, and more
May 15, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: IMLS Lawsuit Updates On May 13, the Judge in the 21 states’ attorneys general case issued a ruling to halt the dismantling of IMLS and …
Updates on IMLS and the President’s Budget
Advocacy Alert – May 2, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Lawsuit Updates IMLS Lawsuit: Yesterday, a judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order to prevent the Trump …
April Alert: Advocacy Activities, Updates on Federal Funding and IMLS
Advocacy Alert – April 28, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Upcoming Advocacy Activities Are you attending the 2025 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo? Learn about and connect …
Grant Terminations, Appeals and Other Activities
Grant Terminations: IMLS Appeals This week, federal agencies, including IMLS and NEH, have continued to send large numbers of grant termination letters to awardees. If you received an IMLS …
IMLS, NEH Grant Terminations
Grant Termination As noted in previous alerts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has had its staff put on administrative leave with a lack of clarity on the status of …
Latest on IMLS as of 3/31
Latest on IMLS as of 3/31 On March 31, the entire Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staff was placed on administrative leave as a follow up to the executive order from March …
March Advocacy Updates – IMLS Update and Take Action
March 26, 2025 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: IMLS Update As a follow up to last week’s Advocacy Alert, we wanted to provide you with a few updates and additional ways you can take …
Urgent: Act Now to Save IMLS
NOW is the time to speak up for museums! On March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO), Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, directing further cuts to …
Ask Your Museum’s Supporters to Save IMLS
Engaging your museum’s supporters and the public in museum advocacy can be a critical way to share the impacts recent Executive Orders have had on the museum field and garner support for …
Speak Up for Museums This Week!
Amplify Museum Voices Hundreds of your museum colleagues are participating in Museums Advocacy Day this week, and YOU can back them up by sending letters or calling your members of …
Urgent: Protect IMLS from Indiscriminate Staffing Cuts
Please take a moment today to contact your members of Congress and express concerns about potential indiscriminate staffing cuts at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). As a …
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Fostering Psychological Safety in Your Museum: A Step-by-Step Guide
A comprehensive guide on developing a museum workspace where staff feel comfortable and confident about expressing their ideas and concerns without worrying about negative consequences. …
Beyond the IT Office: Solving for Ethical AI in Cultural Institutions
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Exhibition Journal
This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Spring 2025) Vol. 44 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in museums is nothing new—we’ve seen …
Editor’s Letter: Ethics, the Spring 2025 issue of Exhibition journal
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Exhibition Journal
This letter by Exhibition‘s editor Jeanne Normand Goswami first appeared in Spring 2025 issue, Vol. 44 No. 1 and is reproduced with permission. If you don’t read the journal, become a …