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Trump administration to close NASA research library at Goddard – The Baltimore Banner

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NASA library closure in Maryland the latest in Trump cuts to space research

By Cody Boteler, 1/1/2026 3:51 p.m. ESTchat_bubble3

The Trump administration will close NASA’s largest research library, located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, this week.

The library houses tens of thousands of books and documents, including journals and old articles that have not been digitized, according to The New York Times, which first reported on the facility’s Friday closure.

In-person library services were already paused, according to the Goddard Engineers, Scientists and Technicians Association, or GESTA, the union for employees at the facility. As of Dec. 9, employees were no longer allowed to check out books.

The union said in an update on its blog that library staff are working on a 60-day review of the collection and have been reportedly been given permission to save the most rare 10%-15% of it, with the remainder to be picked up by the General Services Administration. According to The Times, the federal government will store some of the collection in warehouses, and trash the rest.

The union wrote that employees were told that physical collaboration spaces in the library would close as of Jan. 2, and some “limited” digital subscriptions will remain.

NASA officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

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Shuttering the library is just the latest of sudden building closures at the Goddard campus, according to GESTA. The union has detailed multiple laboratory and office building closures, and said some employees and contractors were called in to help vacate buildings during the government shutdown.

Goddard is “NASA’s premiere space flight complex and home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe,” according to its website.

The “unplanned” and “hasty” moves will “result in the loss of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded laboratory facilities, including sophisticated and high-value equipment that will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace,” union officials wrote.

• SEE ALSO:
• 1. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasas-largest-library-to-permanently-close-on-jan-2-books-will-be-tossed-away-10170584
• 2. https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/The-historic-largest-NASA-library–linked-to-the-development-of-the-Hubble-and-James-Webb-telescopes–was-closed-by-the-Trump-administration-amid-strong-criticism-regarding-its-scientific-impact.-%28RPC95%29/

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump administration to close NASA research library at Goddard – The Baltimore Banner

Trump administration to close NASA research library at Goddard – The Baltimore Banner

Politics State government Local government

NASA library closure in Maryland the latest in Trump cuts to space research

By Cody Boteler, 1/1/2026 3:51 p.m. ESTchat_bubble3

The Trump administration will close NASA’s largest research library, located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, this week.

The library houses tens of thousands of books and documents, including journals and old articles that have not been digitized, according to The New York Times, which first reported on the facility’s Friday closure.

In-person library services were already paused, according to the Goddard Engineers, Scientists and Technicians Association, or GESTA, the union for employees at the facility. As of Dec. 9, employees were no longer allowed to check out books.

The union said in an update on its blog that library staff are working on a 60-day review of the collection and have been reportedly been given permission to save the most rare 10%-15% of it, with the remainder to be picked up by the General Services Administration. According to The Times, the federal government will store some of the collection in warehouses, and trash the rest.

The union wrote that employees were told that physical collaboration spaces in the library would close as of Jan. 2, and some “limited” digital subscriptions will remain.

NASA officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

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Shuttering the library is just the latest of sudden building closures at the Goddard campus, according to GESTA. The union has detailed multiple laboratory and office building closures, and said some employees and contractors were called in to help vacate buildings during the government shutdown.

Goddard is “NASA’s premiere space flight complex and home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe,” according to its website.

The “unplanned” and “hasty” moves will “result in the loss of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded laboratory facilities, including sophisticated and high-value equipment that will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace,” union officials wrote.

• SEE ALSO:
• 1. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasas-largest-library-to-permanently-close-on-jan-2-books-will-be-tossed-away-10170584
• 2. https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/The-historic-largest-NASA-library–linked-to-the-development-of-the-Hubble-and-James-Webb-telescopes–was-closed-by-the-Trump-administration-amid-strong-criticism-regarding-its-scientific-impact.-%28RPC95%29/

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Baltimore County library CEO faces backlash after abrupt librarian layoffs and rehiring – The Baltimore Banner

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Baltimore County library CEO faces backlash after abrupt librarian layoffs and rehiring

By Céilí Doyle, 11/18/2025 2:47 p.m. EST, Updated 11/19/2025 11:20 a.m. EST

Some community members have voiced dissatisfaction with Sonia Alcántara-Antoine in wake of controversy

In a cramped meeting room on the ground floor of the Baltimore County Public Library’s Towson branch, CEO Sonia Alcántara-Antoine sat stone-faced.

For 40 minutes — as community members questioned her leadership, character and even her belief in democratic values — she laced her fingers in her lap and listened without expression during the library’s board of trustees meeting on Tuesday.

“You’re all complicit,” Nicole Dvorak, a former staffer, told the library’s leader and its board of trustees.

Last week, Alcántara-Antoine fired 14 part-time librarians only to rehire them two days later following a massive public backlash.

On Monday, library officials announced the departure of the system’s human resources director, Robin Linton, whom Alcántara-Antoine said resigned.

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IAM Local 4538 President Anita Bass said Linton’s resignation wasn’t enough, and that the CEO needed to take responsibility.

“[Your actions were] embarrassing, humiliating and dehumanizing,” she said, staring directly at Alcántara-Antoine. “I don’t understand what you were thinking. We are unionized! You fired one of our negotiators.”

Initially, library officials said the layoffs were necessary to better serve the county and preserve resources. They said past library leaders decided to phase out part-time librarians and that the layoffs finalized the long-term decision.

Baltimore County Public Library employs 515 people across 19 branches. Its 2025 operating budget is $51 million, including $41 million in county funding.

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