In a statement issued on Thursday, November 8, 2007, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein said:
“I welcome the Inspector General’s recommendations included in the ‘Audit of the Process of Safeguarding and Accounting for Presidential Library Artifacts’. This audit which was completed on October 26, 2007, examined the management of Presidential artifacts at six Presidential Libraries: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, the John F. Kennedy Library, the Gerald R. Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, the George Bush Library, and the William J. Clinton Library.
In the audit, the Office of the Inspector General recommended:
An initial physical inventory should be conducted within a reasonable amount of time with follow-up inventories on a recurring basis;
Adding certain enhancements to the data base used by libraries for cataloguing and managing their artifact collections to improve management controls;
Developing policy and procedures for de-accessioning artifacts that do not warrant continuing preservation;
Identifying and ranking artifacts that are in need of preservation;
Completion of a 100% inventory of the Reagan collection that would then be compared to the original White House Gift Unit data base. Also recommended improving internal controls for monitoring the artifact collection at the Reagan Library and the installation of appropriate storage media, such as shelving and cabinets designed to protect artifacts in case of a seismic event.
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