Bush Library May Be Last of Its Kind

From The Dallas Morning News:

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overseeing such buildings, and some researchers say the traditional library setup for keeping presidential documents is outdated in a digital world.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.

Read more, including opinions about what a Presidential Library means as a national monument, at the Free Government Information blog.

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