Roundup: Library Funding and Trump’s Executive Order (Press Reports)
See Also: Statements in Response to Executive Order Impacting the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Last Update: April 1, 2025; 4:05pm
Latest Entries
- CA: San Diego Public Libraries Brace for Budget Cuts (via Axios San Diego)
- IL: Libraries and Museums in Illinois are Hit by Trump Executive Order (via WGLT)
- ME: Maine’s Rural Libraries at Risk as Trump Guts Agency That Provides Federal Funding (via Portland Press Herald)
Alabama
California
Colorado
Connecticut
- ‘Flying Blind Every Day’: CT Libraries and Museums Grapple With Trump Cuts to Federal Agency (via Hartford Courant)
- Trump’s Targeting of Little-Known Federal Agency Could Impact CT Arts and Culture Organizations (via CT Public Radio)
Maryland
- Trump Urged to Rethink Order Gutting Agency That Funds Museum, Library Grants (via Maryland Matters)
Michigan
- Michigan Libraries, Museums Brace For Loss Of Federal Funds After Trump Executive Order (Detroit Free Press)
- Trump Takes Aim at National Library Agency: What That Could Mean For Michigan Libraries (via WOOD)
Missouri
- Federal Grant Funding for Library Programs in Cape Girardeau Potentially at Risk After Trump Order (via Southeast Missourian)
- Kansas City Libraries, Museums In ‘Scary’ Moment As Trump Targets Agency Providing Vital Funds (via Kansas City Star)
- Local Libraries React to Executive Order Aimed at Reducing Funds to State Libraries (via KOMU)
- MissouriLibraries in Line of Fire as New Trump Order Defunds Libraries and Museums (via KMOV)
New Hampshire
Kentucky
Ohio
- Ohio Libraries, Museums Could Lose Millions In Federal Funding From Trump Executive Order (via Columbus Dispatch)
- Ohio Public Libraries, State Library Of Ohio, Brace For Funding Uncertainty, Hope For Budget Relief (via OCJ)
- Toledo Library Safe Despite Executive Order Seeking to Eliminate Federal Agency (via WTOL)
Texas
Vermont
Washington
West Virginia
National/International
- Board Advising IMLS Tells Acting Director Mandates ‘Cannot’ Be Hindered (via PW)
- Cuts Loom for Agency Funding Libraries and Museums, as Trump Installs New Leader (via Federal News Network)
- Executive Order Targets the Institute for Museum and Library Services (via Publishers Weekly)
- Federal Agency Responsible For Library and Museum Funding Gets a Visit From DOGE (via NPR)
- IMLS Board Pens Letter (via LJ)
- Library Advocates Rally as Trump Targets Federal Funding (via NY Times)
- Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Libraries (via American Libraries)
- Trump Guts Several Agencies, Targeting Voice Of America, Libraries (via Washington Post)
- Trump’s Next Agency Cuts Include US-Backed Global Media, Library and Museum Grants (via Politico)
- Trump Order Could Wipe Out Federal Support For U.S. Science Museums (via Science)
- Trump Signs Order to Dismantle Seven Federal Agencies Focused on Media, Libraries, Homelessness (via The Hill)
- Trump Targets Libraries and State-Funded Media Organizations Amid Voice of America’s Staff Cut (via The Independent)
- What Happens to Libraries If IMLS Goes Away? (by Hallie Rich, Library Journal)
- What’s Happening with the Institute of Museum and Library Services After Trump’s Executive Order (via AP)
See Also: Statements in Response to Executive Order Impacting the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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