Trump’s prices now drink American libraries

The Trump administration’s pricing regime was accused of having royally messed all kinds of things – from small businesses to large companies with American farms and at the cost of soup. Now, a new report says that the president’s economic policy of the president can claim another victim: American libraries.

404 Media reports that, since the elimination of the exemption from DE MINMIS – the policy which previously allowed imports of a value of less than $ 800 to be without a price – the exchange flow for libraries which lend books internationally have been all spoiled. See, there are a large number of libraries, including many university libraries, which allow books to be exchanged with other university establishments, including those of other countries. However, since the start of Trump’s nonsense, some of these countries have ceased to send materials to and from the United States, failing many books abroad, the report said.

404 interviewed several librarians who explained how the Trump administration’s pricing policy had started to fuck with the borrowing of the nation’s book:

“The prices have had an impact on interlibrary loans in various ways for various libraries,” said Heather Evans, librarian at RMIT University in Australia… (Said) in an email. “It largely depends on their different procedures as to how they were affected. Some who use Auspost (Australia Postal Service) have been more affected internationally and I saw many libraries trying to borrow from the United States or the United States. ”

Another librarian, Jessica Bower Reporto, associate director of the sharing of resources and reserves at the University of Yale library, told the point of sale that the practice of international books is a long -standing practice that has been beneficial for the academic world:

“Library loans were something that libraries have been able to do for a very long time, even in the early 1900s,” said Perfero. “If we can no longer do this and we limit what our users can access, because perhaps they are limited only to what we have in our collection, then ultimately hinders academic progress.”

Gizmodo contacted the White House to comment. We have received an automated email explaining that response times could be affected by the government’s closure. “While waiting for an answer, remember that it could have been avoided if the Democrats voted for continuous resolution to keep the government open,” said the email.

It is not as if Maga had never been particularly kind to libraries or librarians. In recent years, many high-level campaigns have been carried out against public libraries, with right-wing activists targeting LGBTQ books and other so-called “awakened” materials, demanding that such volumes be cleaned from the shelves. Earlier this year, as part of Doge’s purges, the Trump administration also dismissed many employees of the Federal Library. Now, in addition to demonizing librarians and dismissing their staff, the Trump administration can also boast of having helped to slow the internationalism of the American library system – an act that is pretty for them.