{"id":22371,"date":"2025-05-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dismantling-a-vital-federal-agency-the-imls\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:00:00","slug":"dismantling-a-vital-federal-agency-the-imls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dismantling-a-vital-federal-agency-the-imls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismantling a vital federal agency \u2013 the IMLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Several grants awarded to the Cortez Public Library during my tenure as children\u2019s librarian were administered by the Colorado Department of Education. The grant money came from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency. This agency is currently being gutted by the Trump administration as they indiscriminately slash and burn.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Public Library was able to participate in two prototype programs \u2013 \u201cSupporting Parents in Early Literacy through Libraries\u201d and \u201cGrowing Readers Together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was privileged to be part of both these programs.<\/p>\n<p>To gut this fine agency is senseless and, I daresay, ignorant.<\/p>\n<p>To deny families the gift of accessing and implementing literacy practices with their children is negligent and cruel and truly affects future generations negatively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura McHenry <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-1553e69953582053aab09bbd1d37ec19\">Cortez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several grants awarded to the Cortez Public Library during my tenure as children\u2019s librarian were administered by the Colorado Department of Education. The grant money came from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency. This agency is currently being gutted by the Trump administration as they indiscriminately slash and burn. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22371"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}