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“Heritage Is More than a Job”: Implications of Project 2025 on the Future of Libraries, Archives, and Museums

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Abstract

For most of the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump publicly claimed to be unfamiliar with or even to have never heard of the report, Project 2025, created by the Heritage Foundation, a far-right advocacy group. With the proposed budget cuts presented by this project, the future of LAMs remains a major concern for those who are in or are planning to go into these professions. With much in question about the future of LAMs, the rest of this article will describe the role of the government historically with these institutions, the implications of Project 2025 for the LAM space (with some specific attention to museums and museum education), and what are the interventions we as scholars, practitioners, and students may engage with to continue to support these spaces.

Keywords: LAMs, Cultural Heritage, IMLS, Project 2025

How to Cite:

Curliss, L., Locke, Q. & Jaeger, P. T., (2025) ““Heritage Is More than a Job”: Implications of Project 2025 on the Future of Libraries, Archives, and Museums”, The Political Librarian 8(Special Edition). doi: https://doi.org/10.7936/pollib.9012