On Monday, February 15, 2021, the United States will celebrate President’s Day, a day set aside to honor the office of the presidency. The focus of today’s post, however, is not the holiday itself, but on the repositories that house resources by and about our nation’s leaders, the Presidential Libraries.
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No doubt, mostly everyone has heard of the Library of Congress, the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States and largest library in the world with millions of items in its vast collection. But what about the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)? NARA is a special library and brands itself as “the nation’s recordkeeper.” While the LOC’s collection consists primarily of books, recordings, photographs, and manuscripts, NARA’s collection captures documents and materials that were created during the conduct of government business and activities.
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