Presidential libraries have changed significantly since President Franklin D. Roosevelt conceived of the presidential library system during his second term in office as a means to preserve evidence of the presidency for study and appreciation by future generations. In Episode 47, Dewey Decibel celebrates President's Day with conversations with directors of two presidential libraries about those changes and more.
First, American Libraries senior editor and Dewey Decibel host Phil Morehart speaks with Paul Sparrow, director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, about the beginnings of the presidential library system and how Roosevelt's library has changed since it opened in 1941. Next, Morehart talks with Brooke Clement, deputy director of the Barack Obama Presidential Library, about why the library decided to eschew a physical building to become the first all-digital presidential library.
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