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INTRODUCTION

As museums, libraries, archives, and the people and communities they serve continue to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, IMLS is dedicated to helping them navigate the ever-changing environment and building a promising future. We proudly support the continual efforts of our community anchor institutions to delight, enlighten, educate, and connect people from all walks of life across America. The sense of museums and libraries as second homes— refuges where individuals can contemplate, change, and broaden their own horizons, and also come together and feel at ease with each other—is more important now than ever. We are all, as individuals, communities, and a nation, on a journey, and IMLS is committed to its vision of:

A nation where individuals and communities have access to museums and libraries to learn from and be inspired by the trusted information, ideas, and stories they contain about our diverse natural and cultural heritage. 

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