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It ensures that grants will continue, workers will keep their jobs, and it puts an end to attempts by the administration to further target the Institute.
Sam Helmick is the president of the American Library Association.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services declined to comment.
The agreement resolves litigation from last year, challenging the Trump administration's attempt to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services through executive action.
It ensures that grants will continue, workers will keep their jobs, and it puts an end to attempts by the administration to further target the Institute.
Sam Helmick is the president of the American Library Association.
We now can continue to focus on funding our libraries, showing up for our libraries, and promoting literacy and lifelong learning, which is what we're all about.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services declined to comment.
Attendance at American museums was heavily impacted by two external factors.
One, the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles.
The Getty Villa was hit particularly hard.
Attendance dropped nearly 60% due to it being closed for almost half the year.
And two, last fall's federal government shutdown.
It crippled DC museums like the National Gallery of Art, which lost more than a quarter of its audience compared with 2024.
Despite the volatility, the country's most visited museums remained relatively stable.
Visitorship at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was up slightly, and some regional museums also saw big gains.
The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art nearly doubled its attendance.
In The Nightmare Begins, William Hartnell as the Doctor gleefully incapacitates an uninvited guest on his spaceship, the TARDIS.