https://archive.md/9R8wY
"The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday,
a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals —
many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.
Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library
holdings over the next 60 days and some material would be stored in a
government warehouse while the rest would be tossed away.
“This process is an established method that is used by federal agencies to
properly dispose of federally owned property,” Mr. Richmond said.
The shutdown of the library at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Md., is part of a larger reorganization under the Trump administration that
includes the closure of 13 buildings and more than 100 science and engineering
laboratories on the 1,270-acre campus by March 2026."
Via Steven Vaughan-Nichols, who wrote "This hurts. It was at GSFC NASA Goddard
Library that I learned I had a gift for technology, and, better still, I could
explain it to laypeople. My career as a technology journalist began here. While
I was there, I also got to know the engineers and scientists who’d pioneered
space. This closure is a disgrace."
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