They can call it the No Memo Left Behind Library. I can see it now: a Bloopers Room, with both private and public media displays, and a donors' wall listing how much of a tax write-off each donor received.

You know, we had to rewire the building because our contractor took the lowest-bidding electrician who then didn't ground a lot of stuff and crammed two junction boxes' worth of wires into one junction box. (The manufacturer supplied us with a replacement and an extra one for free to let them have the old one for safety research purposes. Some of the wires were blackened...) I still don't have a single electrical outlet in the teen section because of them. What I could do with half a million, let alone half a billion...

I understand that Presidential papers need to be housed properly, and that unique documents must have the proper environmental conditions to contribute to their longevity. Paying people enough to work there factors in too. But I wish that some of that money could go to the public libraries. Nickels get squeezed so hard that Jefferson screams.