[Eril-l] Three Critical Issues Facing Librarians in Trump's America

[Walter Miale]

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/72493-libraries-in-the-age-of-trump.html
Three Critical Issues Facing Librarians in Trump's America   As a new 
administration takes office, a look at how librarians can make a 
difference by Brian Kenney, Director of the White Plains (N.Y.) 
Public Library, and former editorial director of Library Journal and 
Publishers Weekly.


I would add to these three issues another that is no less 
fundamental:  The destruction of scientific enterprises and 
databases. Here is a bit on this from the New Yorker:

The United States is now a country with dozens of unofficial 
government "resistance" Twitter accounts. There is one for the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, another for the 
Environmental Protection Agency, and others for the National Park 
Service, the Peace Corps, and the Customs Agency. Last week, in what 
the account describes as an effort to present "actual facts, instead 
of alternative facts,'' they were joined by the nation's most 
important public-health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-deep-denialism-of-donald-trump

Very ominous. There is more detail in stories about the Department of 
Agriculture's acts re animal welfare:

USDA abruptly purges animal welfare information from its website
By Karin Brulliard February 3 at 6:57 PM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday abruptly removed 
inspection reports and other information from its website about the 
treatment of animals at thousands of research laboratories, zoos, dog 
breeding operations and other facilities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/02/03/the-usda-abruptly-removes-animal-welfare-information-from-its-website/?utm_term=.480ed66312c9 


and here: 
http://www.animals24-7.org/2017/02/05/is-protect-the-harvest-behind-usda-purge-of-animal-welfare-act-data/
Animals 24-7 is a Grade A resource.

Walter Miale, PhD
Green World Center
Waterloo, Quebec
w at greenworldcenter.org
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