Nothing sounds sexier than a state library and archives.
One imagines an 83-year-old great-grandmother checking to see if her ancestor really was mentioned in the Pulaski Journal during the Civil War or a small-town, Matlock-type lawyer researching the minutia for a claim in a civil suit. Cobwebs on the oversized volumes. Crickets chirping from dark corners.
So when the Tennessee State Library and Archives officials in Nashville say they’re out of room and need a new building, the clamor has not been deafening to give them what they need.
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State’s history is worthy of new library and archives
What they need – indeed, what was designed for them north of the state Capitol next to the Bicentennial Mall nearly 10 years ago – is a building in which they will be able to fulfill their statutory responsibility of storing the informational materials from every bill filed in the state as well as numerous other documents.