This year, we celebrated National Library Week (April 6-12) with cake, and asking students what they love about the A.C. Buehler Library!

But we also used National Library Week to advocate for libraries, especially in the face of cuts to IMLS, or the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The IMLS is the federal funding agency for libraries and museums in the country, and in 2024, provided $5.7m for Illinois libraries. These funds support resource sharing, like interlibrary loan, as well as other services and programs.

For Elmhurst, if IMLS funding is eliminated, there's a chance that we wouldn't be able to provide the same level of interlibrary loan services that we do now.

For more information about National Library Week and IMLS, visit our guide.