WASHINGTON – The George W. Bush Presidential Library in University Park could be
one of the last brick and mortar institutions of its kind.
Congress is looking for ways to cut the expense of overseeing such buildings, and some researchers say the traditional library setup for keeping presidential documents is outdated in a digital world.
What to do? Use a cave to store vital paper records instead of big compounds. Get out of the museum business and let the president’s backers run that part of the library.
Those are some of the ideas being floated by federal archivists, who now are asking the public for suggestions to run the library system at less cost but with better access to presidential papers. The National Archives and Records Administration will deliver its report to Congress this summer.
Read the full article by Laura Isensee in the March 31, 2009 edition of the Dallas Morning News.
