US EditionTop NASA Library Closing Amid Cuts to Staff, Laboratory
The closure at Goddard is part of a reorganization saving $10 million annually by consolidating NASA libraries and moving physical holdings to digital and remote access.
- The agency announced Friday that Building 21 on the Greenbelt campus, which includes the research library, will close permanently following seven other NASA library shutdowns since 2022.
- Agency officials say the move is part of a long‑planned reorganization that began before the current administration, with Department of Government Efficiency efforts earlier this year cutting staff to 6,600 from more than 10,000.
- Researchers and former staff warn the stacks include Cold War–era materials and many journals are paywalled, while the Space Science Data Coordinated Archive has been offline for months, prompting fears; Dave Williams said, `You can't just get these things online.`
- Jacob Richmond said the agency will review holdings over 60 days, moving some to a government warehouse and discarding others, while staff will shift to digital `Ask a Librarian` services.
- Lawmakers and scientists say the closures imperil missions as the Trump administration proposes cutting NASA's science budget by 47% to $3.9 billion from $7.3 billion.
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The Trump administration will permanently close NASA's largest library on Friday, which contains more than 100,000 books.
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Top NASA library closing amid cuts to staff, laboratory
The Trump administration is closing NASA's largest research library Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals − many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.
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