Clinton Library Archivist Named.(David Alsobrook)(Brief Article)

David Alsobrook, currently director of the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, will join the Clinton Presidential Materials Project in Little Rock, Arkansas, as head archivist in late October, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported August 17.

Alsobrook will head a team consisting initially of four or five archivists who will begin the enormous task of organizing Clintoniana. The sheer quantity of presidential materials is greater than that of any preceding administration: Clinton has accumulated over 75 million papers, 1.85 million photos, and 75,000 gifts. Alsobrook is undaunted, however. "It just …