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NARA and Management of Presidential Library Records
For those of you following the saga of Anthony Clark and his attempt to get access to NARA records about Presidential Libraries (See: How hard is it to get NARA records about NARA? and Getting Documents from NARA about NARA - UPDATE), our friend Kate over at ArchivesNext.com has researched the issue and written a good article about the issues. Thanks Kate!
- NARA's Management of Presidential Library Records: Revelations and Results, by Kate Theimer, The Records Manager: The Newsletter of The Society of American Archivists Records Management Roundtable. Vol 3, No. 1 (November 2008), pp 24-25.
How hard is it to get NARA records about NARA?
Anthony Clark, an independent researcher writing a book on the politics and history of presidential libraries, has written a provocative piece on access to National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) records about administration of Presidential Libraries:
- Why Is It So Hard to Get Documents from the National Archives About the National Archives?, By Anthony Clark, History News Network, July 21, 2008.
More Trouble for Bush Library
The George W. Bush Library at at Southern Methodist University has been a source of controversy for some time. Now, a new story and video by the Times of London suggests more trouble.
- In New Headache for SMU's Bush Library, Lobbyist Hints at Cash-for-Meetings Deal, Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog, July 14, 2008
Do you want Vice President Dick Cheney’s undivided attention for an hour? Stephen P. Payne, a Texas-based lobbyist, has some advice about how to grease the wheels for such a meeting: Make a six-figure donation to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, a library and museum complex that is scheduled to be built at Southern Methodist University.Continue reading
Presidential Libraries and Museums and EO 13233
Presidential libraries have historical problem, Commentary By Benjamin Hufbauer, Chicago Tribune, March 3, 2008. Also available here from NewsBank (subscription required).
The problem with presidential libraries is that there is often tension between what presidents want -- whitewashed memorials that attempt to enhance their reputations through propaganda -- and what historians and the public want -- accessible archives and good history museums.Continue reading
C-SPAN series on Presidential Libraries
Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered began this week. It is broadcast at 8PM Eastern Time on C-SPAN, and on C-SPAN Radio Saturdays at 3pm ET The series offers what presidential historian Richard Norton Smith predicts will be "a kind of history that people don't get out of their textbooks." The series covers Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton. The first show (September 7 on TV, and September 8 on radio) was on Hoover. More material is online at the above link.
More about the series here:
C-SPAN Libraries series opens door to presidential history, by Jeannie Kever, Houston Chronicle Sept. 6, 2007.
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