A conservation technician was hired to create housings for the books. Future plans include an exhibit. Currently the Library does three to four exhibitions a year and Ms. Lightner does one of these. She tries to plan an exhibition which she will enjoy doing and which the public will like. She is provided with support which allows her to spend the time to do the exhibition properly.
Tours are also available at other times by appointment.
Ms. Lightner also gives lectures on the theme of the exhibitions and receives school classes. Barbara Math , Senior Special Collections Librarian, Department of Library Services, American Museum of Natural History Barbara Math began by saying that while curating an exhibition is a worthwhile endeavour she does not recommend it as a hobby. Her experience included working full-time at one museum and spending much of the rest of her waking time curating the exhibition at another museum. She especially acknowledged Ross Day, her boss at the time, for his patience and encouragement. While working at an earlier job in an archaeology museum she had agreed to collaborate on a paper relating to archival resources for the the Jesup expedition, which was organised to demonstrate the theory of the Bering Strait crossing.