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Feb. 6, 2026
After dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, which was later reinstated by a federal court, President Trump signed appropriations bills this week that increase funding for libraries, American Libraries magazine reports. The legislation allocates $212.5 million–a $1.4 million increase–for “library programs run by IMLS through the Library Services and Technology Act,” according to the ALA. Though funding for the IMLS itself decreased slightly, due to the reduction in staffing there. Funding for the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) program, which is run predominantly through school libraries, was flat at $30 million. The office that administers the program was …
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Co-host of the Fantasy Fangirls podcast Nicole Holleman's Oath of the Chosen trilogy, in which an elite torturer trained from childhood to interrogate and kill illegal magic users as one of the realm's chosen is thrust into a royal competition that threatens to expose her own illegal powers, pitched as HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER meets THE HUNGER GAMES, to Alessandra Roche at Cosmo Reads, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, in a three-book deal, for publication in spring 2027, … read more
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