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Robin Westphal knows this isn\u2019t the first time the future of federal funding for her library has been uncertain. As the executive director of Daniel Boone Regional Library and president-elect of the Missouri Library Association, she\u2019s familiar with the Trump administration\u2019s past efforts to cut funds to public libraries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis feels a little different this time, because I feel like in this world where we have so much chaos and conflict sort of going on, that this is when people need libraries the most,\u201d Westphal said.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s budget proposal for fiscal year 2027 includes a proposal to nearly zero out funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the independent agency responsible for providing federal funds to the country\u2019s libraries.<\/p>\n

Congress has previously rejected proposed cuts to the institute, but the most recent proposal comes after a year of legal battles over its existence. Westphal is confident funding will be preserved in this year\u2019s budget negotiations but remains concerned about the message sent by constant threats to the future of libraries.<\/p>\n

Last spring, the American Library Association and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees sued to block Trump\u2019s executive order eliminating the institute. Although the settlement successfully preserved the independent agency, the current proposal now aims to shrink the institute\u2019s budget from $290 million to $6 million \u2014 a loss of about 98% of current funding.<\/p>\n

The Missouri State Library receives more than $3 million in funds annually, which is then distributed to the state\u2019s local libraries through sub-grants. Westphal previously served as the state librarian responsible for administering these funds. She said one of the biggest programs supported by the institute\u2019s funds is the statewide courier service, which allows inter-library transfers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout that courier service that is provided with these federal funds, many libraries, just because of their budget, would not have anything but maybe a few of the best sellers to be able to provide to their patrons,\u201d she said. \u201cThey just don\u2019t have the depth and the breadth of a collection that their community would want.\u201d<\/p>\n

The institute funding also provides tools that allow libraries to view data and expenditure metrics for similar libraries in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been collecting this for a long time, so it can help you find peers and a side-by-side comparison and benchmarking,\u201d said Jenny Bossaller, program coordinator for the University of Missouri\u2019s Library and Information Science Program.<\/p>\n

The Columbia Public Library is part of a large regional system with multiple branches serving Boone and Callaway counties, but the public library in the nearby town of Centralia is much smaller. Centralia Public Library Director Amy Hopkins attested to the importance of library programming in a smaller community and said libraries in extremely rural areas in the state\u2019s southern Bootheel region would be impacted even more by a loss of funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my experience, and I\u2019ve been here a long time, this library is the center of this community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Hopkins has applied for several grants through the state library. These grants fund the Centralia library\u2019s summer reading program, along with educational programming, physical materials, new computers, server equipment, part-time staff wages and mobile hot spots.<\/p>\n

Hopkins said their latest grant is allowing them to upgrade their online card catalog system to Missouri Evergreen, a resource sharing consortium run by the Equinox Open Library Initiative that gives patrons access to items across other library systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to rebarcode everything in the library,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was an $11,000 grant, and then we had to pay for the Equinox training and other things, and that was a $27,000 grant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with local public libraries, the institute also supports tribal libraries, universities, cultural organizations and archives. While libraries rely on state sub-grants administered under the Grants to States program, other types of grantees apply for and receive funding directly through the federal agency.<\/p>\n

At the University of Missouri, Bossaller and her colleagues in the Library and Information Science Department rely on institute grants to support research and training in public library leadership, health librarianship and public data stewardship. She said there\u2019s concern in the department over losing their main source of funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the research that we do, (the institute) is the only federal agency that understands exactly what our purpose is,\u201d Bossaller said. She added that grants from other federal agencies like the National Science Foundation and National Institute for Health can be helpful but aren\u2019t specifically tailored to support information science research the way institute funds are.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can apply for NIH funding, and you might have somebody reviewing your grant that understands what you\u2019re talking about, but they might not see the value in it,\u201d she said. \u201c(The institute) is going to see the value in this, because the people who are reviewing the grants understand the value of public libraries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The federal appropriations process will continue over the summer, with library scholars, rural librarians and library advocates across the country keeping a close eye on the latest defunding negotiations<\/p>\n

This story was originally produced by KBIA<\/a>. It can be republished in print or online.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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