Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress

Dr. Hayden became the librarian of Congress after a lengthy run as the chief librarian in Baltimore, her longtime home, where she had overhauled the city’s struggling public library system.

She had known Mr. Obama since her early days as a librarian working in the Chicago Public Library. She started as a librarian in Chicago in 1973 and ultimately became the city’s chief librarian.

But she harbored a special appreciation for the Library of Congress, which she called a “treasure chest.”

“It’s like heaven,” she said in a video published by the Obama White House when she was nominated to be librarian of Congress. In the video, she reflected on her status as the first female and first Black librarian of Congress, saying that her selection showed “what a national library can be.”

“It’s inclusive,” she said. “It can be part of everyone’s story. I believe in what libraries can be for a civilized society, and a country that is open to all.”

This is some low, low shit.

DEI hire, no doubt.

Might as well burn them damn books.

So basically, it's because she's black, right?

And now she's going to be replaced by a white person?

Trump is really rolling back the clock on all the progress black people have made in the past 60 years.

The felon prez is a total piece of shit.

Are they giving this to Rubio too?

[quote] And now she's going to be replaced by a white person?

Probably one who dropped out of high school.

Next stop: their Gutenberg bible on display at Mar a Lardo.

[quote] Probably one who dropped out of high school.

....and can't read or write.

A straight white man -- that's all you need to be to get this job.

Relax he's appointing another learned woman. Caitlyn Jenner

[quote] And now she's going to be replaced by a white person?

A white person with a penis, no less, but one who lacks a degree or any experience in library science.

Man that's nasty and low. America the racist and the cruel.

I expect to see the MAGA wearing white pointy hoods right out in the open soon.

Wow. What a fucked up firing, & what a horrendous way to let a longtime federal employee go.

Basically, anyone who is employed by the Fed, & who happens to be black & a democrat, are targeted & gone.

We’re going to go through some very rough times, but I can almost guarantee that we will see a huge blue wave in 2026, & 2028.

I hope they don’t shutter the LoC. Trump doesnt read so I can see him giving zero fucks about it.

[quote] Last week, the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, was summarily dismissed via an email addressed to “Carla” from a White House HR administrator. The Trump Administration claimed that she was fired for “things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.” It is true that Hayden was repeatedly on record as saying the Library should be for all Americans. And it is false that the Library, which is intended to hold all books published in the United States, lends books to children. The ouster of Hayden is part of a broader pattern of political targeting of women and Black public servants across the federal government.

That’s the thing. “Putting inappropriate books in the library for children”? What the fuck? The Library of Congress is a repository ofevery book ever published in the USA. That’s the point of it. It provides the call numbers used by the libraries worldwide who use the (superior, IMO, to the Dewey Decimal System) LoC cataloguing system.

This is racism at its core.

[quote]We’re going to go through some very rough times, but I can almost guarantee that we will see a huge blue wave in 2026, & 2028.

No, you won't.

Liberalism had a good run (1960s-2020s) but the pendulum has swung!

The 21st century belongs to conservatives.

^^^ "Conservatives" don't accept gifts from Middle Eastern terrorists as a bribe for a grant of political favor.

Yes, our “conservatives” turned out to be “lawless ideologues” didn’t they? Wiping their asses with that Constitution we heard so much about.

I'm very worried that the online research resources of the National Archives will be terminated. Thousands of researchers and academics are dependent on them.

Duh, what's everyone so upset about? The president has convened a high-level council to select the new Librarian.

Oh, shit, fucked it up, or DL fucked it up. Trying again.

[quote]That’s the thing. “Putting inappropriate books in the library for children”? What the fuck? The Library of Congress is a repository ofevery book ever published in the USA. That’s the point of it. It provides the call numbers used by the libraries worldwide who use the (superior, IMO, to the Dewey Decimal System) LoC cataloguing system. This is racism at its core.

It is, R18. Since this administration has no shame, they should stop with the bullshit code words. To them and their cultist breathren, DEI means "No matter how educated or qualified a non-White person in a position of power or authority is, they only got there because of their race, gender or sexual orientation, especially if they're Black." We know it, they know it, why hide it at this point?

She kept checking out porn to children!

Another perspective on the firing:

"It's all about using AI to scrape every bit of copyrighted material at the Library of Congress.

While neither Hayden nor (also fired head of the U.S. Copyright Office Shira) Permutter have publicly discussed their exits, multiple people I've spoken with today tell me that one of the central conflicts between both of them and the White House centered around allowing the DOGE people access to the Library's copyrighted material. The fear was that DOGE would scrape every bit of data it could from the library's holdings and two sources I spoke with told me they were told the plan was to eventually use the data to train generative AI.

The stated reason for that data scraping is to make government data collection and aggregation more efficient. But the end result would be an AI system that had been trained in part on every piece of written material, photo, and moving picture in the Library's collection."

that makes sense

This is exactly why we should tax the hell out of the motherfucking tech companies. They get rich as parasites - skimming off our transactions, monetizing our online activity, and training on our collective intellectual property. They need to pay.

[quote] It's all about using AI to scrape every bit of copyrighted material at the Library of Congress.

That's true too.

But the fact that Carla D. Hayden is a black woman, is just an added bonus for Trump to fire her.

Her firing was due to massive fraud at the LOC discovered by DOGE. She was pocketing millions from the overdue book fine fund. In addition the librarians paid to shush people to be quiet were working from home and not working much but just watching PBS all day.