NASA's data could fill Library of Congress 300 times
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NASA--Database
Source: Spaceflight Now NASA's data could fill Library of Congress 300 times
"The largest scientific data system on the planet, the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), is providing users around the world with unprecedented access to huge amounts of important information about the Earth's environment. Five years after the launch of the flagship satellite, Terra, the current volume of available data is 4 petabytes (4 followed by 15 zeros), the equivalent of a DVD movie with a running time of more than 160 years or the equivalent of enough information to fill the Library of Congress 300 times."
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Public Libraries--Philadelphia
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer Protest draws hundreds at library
"'We are fed up with the latest assault on library services,' Amy Dougherty, executive director of the Friends of the Free Library of Philadelphia, shouted to a cheering crowd. 'We want books, we want librarians, and we want open libraries, and we want it now!'"
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Censorship
Source: The Grand Rapids Press Banned Book Flies Off Shelves
"Author Chris Crutcher is banned temporarily from Grand Rapids Public Schools, but at local libraries, his book 'Athletic Shorts' is flying off shelves.... In fact, all 44 copies in the eight-county book-sharing network covered by the Lakeland Library Cooperative were spoken for Saturday, with more people waiting."
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Rare Book Collection--Ian Fleming
Source: The Times (UK) The Man With the Golden Library
"Fleming's own career in the book business started long before James Bond. As a youth in 1929, almost a quarter of a century before Casino Royale was published, he was attracted by an unlikely item in a Mayfair bookshop window -- D. H. Lawrence's controversial volume of poems, Pansies."
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