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“The United States is testing its future through California,” he said in an essay for the website of the California State Library, which he served as state librarian from 1994 to 2004.

Rebecca Wendt, the deputy state librarian of the California State Library, told me the cancellation of the grants was an instant loss of about $3 million for California.

The state library was awarded $15.7 million for the year, and was still owed about 21% of that.

Wendt said that the State Library’s portion of the funds was directly supporting 34 staff members, in addition to covering programs including its free service to provide Braille books for blind people.

The California State Library, which supports local libraries and maintains its own collection, said it was notified this week that a key federal grant supporting programs across the state had been terminated, slashing $3 million of funds that had already been awarded.