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Historic NY

(39,617 posts)
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 11:35 PM 12 hrs ago

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

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.

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NASA's Largest Library To Permanently Close On Jan 2, Books Will Be 'Tossed Away (Original Post) Historic NY 12 hrs ago OP
Or perhaps dweller 11 hrs ago #1
No worries. Trump knows more than NASA's largest library dalton99a 11 hrs ago #2
Throwing away books borders on criminal, IMO. 3catwoman3 11 hrs ago #3
I agree. There isn't an organization that can retrieve these or can't they be given away? Deuxcents 10 hrs ago #4
Charlie don't surf and MAGA don't read. Gaugamela 10 hrs ago #5
Sadly, libraries are a victim of Ai Johonny 10 hrs ago #6
Patently not true obamanut2012 10 hrs ago #7
No, true Johonny 1 hr ago #12
Some of the crap coming out of AI is downright criminal Historic NY 2 hrs ago #10
Why would anything be "tossed"??? pat_k 10 hrs ago #8
Getting rid of books you dislike is one thing. Lionel Mandrake 10 hrs ago #9
Putin wins again! Kid Berwyn 2 hrs ago #11
No friends of the library book sale? Simeon Salus 39 min ago #13

Deuxcents

(25,445 posts)
4. I agree. There isn't an organization that can retrieve these or can't they be given away?
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 12:50 AM
10 hrs ago

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

Johonny

(25,346 posts)
6. Sadly, libraries are a victim of Ai
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 01:00 AM
10 hrs ago

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

Physical libraries are doomed.

Johonny

(25,346 posts)
12. No, true
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 09:43 AM
1 hr ago

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

(39,617 posts)
10. Some of the crap coming out of AI is downright criminal
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 08:55 AM
2 hrs ago

Especially if people rely on it as fact.

pat_k

(12,665 posts)
8. Why would anything be "tossed"???
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 01:22 AM
10 hrs ago

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

(4,191 posts)
9. Getting rid of books you dislike is one thing.
Fri Jan 2, 2026, 01:28 AM
10 hrs ago

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.

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