[Heuristic Hiker]

It appears that actually there will be no "Obama Presidential Library." The Obama “library” will not be a traditional National Archive and Records Administration (NARA) sanctioned “Presidential Library” but rather a “Center” (because Obama kicked out the neutral NARA archivists and replaced them with partisan Obama appointees (much more useful when crafting one’s legacy…or when it may be deemed useful to “lose” documents).

“These plans show the contradictions of the Obama presidency itself,” she says. “He sees himself as this transformational figure, and this as a transformational building. But he may be forgetting the core function of a presidential library, which is to house the documentation of a president “ (see https://www.wired.com/2017/05/obama-pioneers-new-approach-presidential-library/).

[BenLurkin]

ValJar didn’t “forget” that purpose. She is intentionally subverting it.