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Betsy Roberts Miller ⁂

Executive Order "Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy" gives in Section 2 a laundry list -
(iv) is the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

Do you use digitized newspapers at a site maintained by your state library, like North Carolina's digitalnc.org/ or Georgia Historic Newspapers at the Digital Library of Georgia gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.u

Tell your Congress Critters that you support these resources.

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DigitalNCDigitalNC HomeDigitalNC is a project of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, a statewide digitization and digital publishing program that works with cultural heritage organizations of all sizes across North Carolina to digitize and publish historic …

@BRMiller Oh jeez I saw the order of course, and I knew it spelled trouble for the library world, but it hadn't yet hit me the impact that it'll have on genealogy specifically.

I have to assume cuts will hit the Library of Congress sooner or later. Some of their services are legally mandated, but Chronicling America? Their Sanborn maps collection? *gulp*