alt Hacker News> in the UK some institutions like the national library of scotland are so-called "copyright libraries" and they have always restricted access to people who register and declare an interest grounded in research
As an 8yo, I'd walk into the US Library of Congress alone and ask for rare books.
I like this way best.
Until some random crazy person exercises the same right and destroys an irreplaceable rare book.
You have to get a library card for the library. I don’t see why there is so much outrage over this, and I think the timing is more about budget cuts than about Trump [caveat- firing the archivist might have been personal].
I find the arguments that “he just wants to sow distrust” etc. are completely unbelievable; he has bigger fish to fry than micromanaging the national archives.