Trump fires librarians of the congress and continues to form cultural institutions: NPR

President Trump released the Congress Carla Hayden library on Thursday evening and continued his repetition of the American cultural institutions.

Hayden was the first woman and the first African American to hold the post. She was also the first person at work to be temporary. Your time should take place next year.

“There were rather concerned things that she had done in the congress library to follow Dei and bring inappropriate books to the library for children,” said Karoline Leavitt, press spokeswoman for the White House on Friday.

NPR has contacted Hayden to get a comment.

The congress library does many things. It is the main research low of the US congress. It houses the US copyright. It organizes the National Book Festival every year (which organized NPR journalists after complete disclosure). But it also houses a huge amount of books, films, recordings, manuscripts, newspapers and more, which makes it one of the largest libraries in the world.

When Hayden received the job in 2016, her main task was to bring the Congress library to the 21st century and digitize the collection. It was a pretty big job when you consider that the government's office had published a report with the heading in 2015: “A strong leadership that was necessary to combat weaknesses for serious information technology management.”

In most cases, Hayden's work was a success in strengthening the library's digital infrastructure. During a hearing from the Committee of the Republican Congressman Bryan Steil, Bryan Steil, Hayden praised and her employees on Tuesday and said that they “dedicate a lot of time and service for the country and the congress library, and their work should be praised”.

While libraries were generally exaggerated in the broader cultural wars, the congress library mainly held out of these controversy. In addition to the overview of the digitization process, the other topic of discussion in the hearing of this week was the renovation of the main reading room of the library.

Democratic legislators, including Senator Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, criticized the dismissal.

This week too, a number of senior employees from the National Foundation for the Arts left their contributions. In a letter from the literary magazine N+1, four members of the literary artist of the NEA announced their departures. “Although we do not know exactly how the work of the agency changes, we know that the remaining employees will do their best to support them,” says the letter.

President Trump had previously proposed to remove the NEA. At the weekend, art groups across the country received an e -mail with the inscription that their grants from the National Endowment for the Arts were canceled. It read: “The NEA updates its priorities of the grants to concentrate the financing on projects that reflect the rich artistic heritage and the creativity of the country, as prioritized by the president.”

Since then, this has left art groups – across the country who are looking for funds.

And on Wednesday CNN reported that a number of actors in the upcoming production of Les Misérables Boycott is planning in the Kennedy Center when President Trump sees the show on June 11th.

Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center was an early violent exhibition. He fired Deborah Rutter, who was a decade of President of the Performing Arts Center, and installed Richard Grenell as Interim President. Trump also placed himself as chairman of the board. A number of artists who should appear in response to their appearances.

This is only a part of Trump's changes in art institutions since taking office in January. He also tried to shorten the staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities and at the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

Meghan Sullivan edited this story.