Significantly fewer conference attendees than expected a few months ago. A canceled keynote speech. Scratched sessions.The Medical Library Association had many challenges to surmount when it held its annual conference, MLA 2025, in Pittsburgh last month. All stemmed from the Trump administration: federal government layoffs, budget cuts, gag orders on agency experts and reduced foreign attendance because of harsh border controls and Canadian resentment of President Donald Trump’s insults. (Trump has called for Canada to become the 51st U.S. state and referred to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor.”)“I consider it to be a win that we were only minus 19%” in attendance,… Read More