The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation only informed the Associated Press that Carla Hayden will join the Humanities Grantmaker on Monday, whose tasks will include the advice on the further development of public knowledge by libraries and archives.
Hayden’s one -year post is again at the center of the debates about American culture that surrounded its dismissal. The white house displaced HaydenThe first woman and the first African American who held the title after being accused of promoting a conservative advocacy of “radical” literary material that wanted to satisfy the opposition of the Trump within the federal government.
In an explanation of the AP, Hayden recognized the existing threats for the “free exchange of ideas”.
“For generations, libraries, archives and cultural institutions, the guards of knowledge and catalysts have been for human progress,” she said. “Together we will work to strengthen the ecosystem of public knowledge and ensure that transformative information is accessible to everyone.”
Mellon’s reaction to the government’s funding cuts
In the meantime, the Mellon Foundation has worked on filling Fiskallöcher for Art communities that can be tumbled from federal cuts. The 15 million dollar fund for the “emergency” is intended to compensate for the 65 million dollars that should go to the State Humanities Councilor, organize book fairs, cultural heritage festivals, theater productions and other programs that promote cultural commitment.
The foundation previously supported The efforts of the American Library Association to counteract book bansIncrease scholarships for librarians of colors and increase in literacy for adults.
Mellon President Elizabeth Alexander said that the foundation was enthusiastic about Hayden, “a guide with an unshakable consideration for the public well -being of the American people”, during such a “decisive time”. According to Mellon, public knowledge institutions navigate “historical challenges and transformative progress”, including artificial intelligence, digital technologies, federal financing and censorship efforts.
Who is the librarian of the congress and what is the job?
The Acting librarian is a deputy attorney in General Todd Blanche, who represented Trump during his criminal proceedings in 2024.
Responsibility area From the care of collections to the selection of the poet in the country to the allocation of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and the library of the Congress for American fiction. The library also manages the impartial congress research service.
Librarians serve 10-year office times, and Hayden’s should end in 2026. Her term of office included the modernization of her reservoir of the books and the history of the nation. It supervised new initiatives that turn to the rural and online audience. Youngest Campaigns wanted to improve accessibility For everyday visitors. And she arranged for Lizzo’s 2022 performance, in which the artist played a crystal flute, which President James Madison belonged – under the Artifacts of the library’s library.
Before her confirmation in 2016, Hayden spent more than two decades as CEO of Baltimores Enoch Pratt Free Library System and was President of the American Library Association from 2003 to 2004. The graduate of Roosevelt University and the University of Chicago is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy and Sciences.
