# Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library

The Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library is an archive of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in which state papers related to the presidency of Joe Biden have been deposited following his term as President of the United States, as well as a proposed presidential center on Joe Biden.
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## Background

Presidential Libraries are archives and museums, bringing together the documents and artifacts of a U.S. president and his administration. While libraries and their contents are maintained by NARA, other costs have traditionally been borne by private donors. According to NARA, each former president selects the architect for the library and is "solely responsible for choice of the final location for the Library building and for the construction costs".

## Location

The library is located in Room 1510 of 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland, a U.S. government office building in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Following the second inauguration of Donald Trump, on January 20, 2025, NARA announced it had "assumed custody of the records and artifacts of the Biden administration". According to NARA, Biden had not — as of that date — formally "indicated his intentions with regard to a Presidential Library".

## History

According to Joe Biden, in a story related by him to Robert Hur during Hur's investigation of the Joe Biden classified documents incident, the topic of his presidential library was first broached by Jill Biden in July 2023 following remarks he gave at the Harry Truman Presidential Library, after which he began thinking about it more closely. Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal were subsequently designated by Biden to organize fundraising for the library's construction.
The University of Delaware in Wilmington, Delaware, and Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, were both initially cited by Biden as possible locations for the library facility. As of July 2024, however, the University of Delaware reported it was "unaware of any conversations on this topic" while a spokesperson for Syracuse said at the same time that "there have been no conversations to date on this".
In November 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported that some donors were putting up "resistance" to giving funds for the library. The next month, following Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden, several major Democratic Party donors reportedly signaled their intent to withhold donations for the proposed library facility altogether.
As of December 2024, NARA was recruiting staff to prepare the Biden library document collections. In January 2025, Philadelphia mayor Cherelle Parker expressed interest in lobbying for the library to be built in her city.

## Design

One unsolicited plan advanced by civic leaders in Wilmington involved repurposing the Daniel L. Herrmann Courthouse to serve as the Biden library.