Three states were told their federal library grants have been terminated. Several others told @usatoday.com they are halting some programs, like ebooks access, in case their grants end too.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/03/libraries-trump-federal-funding-cuts/82598580007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/03/libraries-trump-federal-funding-cuts/82598580007/
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Rural Arkansas is bracing, knowing it cannot replace the endangered services. [It pays for]...eBooks and a research database to every library in the state as well as books for the blind, the summer reading program.
"Every school and public library, even universities in Arkansas, use it."
Mississippi's Library Commission cut off access to the eBook system.
Ohio has frozen its summer reading program grants for over 50 libraries. Montana halted all nonemergency
spending.
Sudden, significant shortfalls in nearly every state library budget.