NASA's Largest Library To Permanently Close On Jan 2, Books Will Be 'Tossed Away

[Historic NY]

NASA's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center will close permanently on Jan 2 under the Trump administration's reorganization plans

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasas-largest-library-to-permanently-close-on-jan-2-books-will-be-tossed-away-10170584]

Perhaps the Library of congress is next.

[dweller]

1. Or perhaps

NARA , now that little Marco is now in charge
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[dalton99a]

2. No worries. Trump knows more than NASA's largest library

[3catwoman3]

3. Throwing away books borders on criminal, IMO.

[Deuxcents]

4. I agree. There isn't an organization that can retrieve these or can't they be given away?

I just get the thinking process here with this decision..or other decisions to just toss out things from our institutions. I should think someone wants to preserve these things

[Gaugamela]

5. Charlie don't surf and MAGA don't read.

[Johonny]

6. Sadly, libraries are a victim of Ai

As librarians have been deemed redundant and almost all journals and reports are online, searchable by Ai.

Physical libraries are doomed.

[obamanut2012]

7. Patently not true

It's my profession. What you stated is not the reality.

[Johonny]

12. No, true

My work, closely parallel to NASA, also cut 90 percent of library staff and demolished library.

So, it is you that are wrong. Sorry. Executives think Ai can replace libraries and are doing so. The corporate library is a goner sooner rather than later.

[Historic NY]

10. Some of the crap coming out of AI is downright criminal

Especially if people rely on it as fact.

[pat_k]

8. Why would anything be "tossed"???

Are the documents already catalogued at the library of Congress? If not, why not? All these materials are, at a minimum, historically significant..

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow,"
-- Robert H. Goddard

Goddard's vision of reaching the Moon and beyond continues to inspire NASA's work in Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, and astrophysics,.

[Lionel Mandrake]

9. Getting rid of books you dislike is one thing.

The Roman Catholic Church, the Nazis, and the city of Boston all did it. But they were selective.

In destroying a unique library, the MAGA (Make America Grovel Again) administration has shown that it hates all books, not just those it deems offensive. In this respect they are worse than the Nazis.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Putin wins again!

Xi, too.

[Simeon Salus]

13. No friends of the library book sale?

They're destroying the records...