Project 2025’s dire impact on libraries
Project 2025 has been much in the news lately. It is a 900-page manifesto put out by the hyper-conservative Heritage Foundation that lays out a detailed plan for the right-wing to take over the government and implement severely regressive policies in the event that Trump wins the general election in November.
The EveryLibrary Institute, a nonprofit advocacy group whose purpose is to protect libraries from right-wing assaults, has issued a report titled, “Project 2025 and Its Consequences for Libraries.” What the report has uncovered is dire indeed for libraries, both public libraries and school libraries, should Project 2025 be enacted.
For more than a decade, libraries have been facing increasingly aggressive attacks from right-wing activists and organizations like Moms for Liberty.
The attacks start with school libraries, pushing for the removal or outright banning of LGBTQ materials, but soon expands to defining anything LGBTQ-related as pornographic, calling for the dismissal and/or prosecution of librarians and teachers as pornographers attempting to sexualize children.
