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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/12/no-obama-documents-in-obama- library-historians-puzzled-by-chicago-center- plans.html?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork

The Obama Foundation is taking an unconventional approach to the
presidential center and library being planned in Chicago. It's opting to
host a digital archive of President Barack Obama's records, but not keep
his hard-copy manuscripts and letters and other documents onsite.

That means no thumbing through the ex-president's correspondence on the
health care fight or first drafts of his State of the Union addresses.

The decision has historians scratching their heads.

“All archivists are waiting to see how this will work, because we are all struggling with how to make things available digitally,” Peggy Glowacki, a manuscripts librarian at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, told the Chicago Tribune.

The Tribune reported that while Obama's physical records are currently in
a private facility in Illinois, they will likely be shipped to locations
in and around Washington, D.C. One upside for organizers to keeping
documents out of the presidential center, according to the report, is that officials could skirt certain federal standards for construction.

But the foundation is casting its approach as simply keeping pace with the times.

“The foundation’s goal is to create, with NARA, a new model for the next generation of presidential centers that reflects the way people access information in this digital age,” an Obama Foundation spokesperson told
Fox News, referring to the National Archives and Records Administration.
“The Obama Foundation will be funding through private funds the
digitization of all non-classified presidential records in order to help facilitate better access to these documents to a broader audience.”

Presidential libraries typically attract historians and students from
across the nation who are eager to sift through records, speeches,
documents and letters.

But without the artifacts physically at the center, some experts have questioned the process.

“I think in this case it’s such a massive amount of material that it will
be important to see how they are able to deliver it and make it easy to search,” Glowacki told the Tribune.

It will be at least four years until the Obama Presidential Center opens.

NARA told the Tribune that the classified documents from Obama’s
presidency will be stored in an existing facility in Washington, while the non-classified documents probably will be stored in a NARA facility
outside the district.

The foundation reported in July that total fundraising for the Center
amounted to at least $8 million toward the projected $500 million cost of
the library-museum. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2021.

Planners for months have made clear that Obama's post-presidency project
will be different from other presidential centers.

Back in May, Obama described it as “more like a campus,” with plans to
position it as a “premier institution for training young people in
leadership.”

Dean of William J. Clinton School of Public Service James "Skipp"
Rutherford, who oversaw the development of the Clinton Presidential
Library in Arkansas, told the Tribune the setup can still be valuable to researchers.

“Here’s how it will be attractive: through the forums, workshops and
programs they conduct,” Rutherford said, noting “the presence of paper
records is less important now.”

But one presidential historian, Gil Troy, disagrees.

“When you view the collection, you meet the people around the president,
not just the president. That comes from being there, not just logging on,”
Troy told the Tribune.

Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.


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