Though it isn't the kind of thing one hears discussed every day, serious Disney fans do tend to know that Goofy's original name was Dippy Dawg. But how many of the non-obsessive know that Mickey's fai...

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The true cost of keeping the Internet Archive alive will likely remain unknown.

The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.

Lavonnia Moore says she was just following the library’s mission to serve everyone—but it wasn’t enough to save her job.

Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.

Dog stayed by his master, who was wedged in an 8-metre-deep crevasse, and was spotted by helicopter crew A small pet dog is being hailed as a “four-legged hero” for helping to save his owner’s life after he fell down an icy crevasse in the Swiss Alps. The Air Zermatt helicopter company credited the pint-sized pooch with drawing their attention to the location of the hiker, who he was extracted and taken to hospital. Continue reading...

As a historian invited to speak before Congress, I expected to converse with serious people. That's not what happened.

The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.

From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.

The library last received funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services on March 24 and has not gotten any updates on when — or whether — payments may resume.

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

Already facing burnout and book bans, librarians face a ‘catastrophe’ for institutions deemed central to democracy

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.

Cory Booker is nearing the record for the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history.