Closing The GSFC Library
Goddard Space Center library
Keith’s note: According to @NASAEarthWatch @nasaearthwatch.bsky.social “Goddard Space Center library is due to disappear. It is not about when, but how and where the books will go. Another casualty in this relentless attack to #science and culture. It has a Facebook page. Let’s see how long it lasts.”
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Are the libraries at other NASA Centers closing?
Ames and Marshall lost theirs years ago. Most of the HQ library is gone as well.
Since August 2025, the NASA Langley Library has had no employees – so has been closed to physical walk-ins. Two contractor Librarians were cut before the buyout. The last 2 civil service Librarians took the last DRP. With the hiring freeze, no new hires to manage the Library- so doors were shut. Services were still provided online by other center Librarians , but there’s no physical library access at Langley. No $$ for subscriptions, databases or new books (allegedly).
The JSC library was closed 25 years ago. Most books were handed out to whoever wanted them. If they’d digitized the contents and ensured they remained available online it might have been OK but many of the titles can no longer be found anywhere.
Wow, remember when They upgraded it for a large meeting room.
There go more jobs.
@ MSFC/Redstone the books end up in dumpsters.
I perused the GSFC library a while back; there are some technical periodicals from the late 1800’s in there
You open the document and can smell the history of technological advancement waft from the pages. These documents are timeless and should find a home in some museum, or perhaps the Smithsonian archives?
I will miss the GSFC library.
Many historical items from Langley Library (NASA’s oldest collection), were removed for archiving.
But if you do not care about developing and maintaining expertise, then there is no need for knowledge developed in the past. So there would be no need for libraries. That has been the NASA of the 21st century.
Isaacman is saying some of the right things about education and developing a ‘starfleet academy’. We tried initiating something like that a few years ago and just as we started the program NASA withdrew its support-and withdrew the funding.