Electronic info dominates George W. Bush's archive

Archivists responsible for putting together the presidential library of former President George W. Bush are tasked with processing 80 terabytes of electronic information - 20 times the Clinton administration's four terabytes.

Bush's electronic archives contain more than 200 million e-mails, compared with about 20 million in former President Bill Clinton's. Bush's archives also include share drives, hard drives, scheduling systems and digital photography, which his administration switched to about halfway through his tenure. The average size of a quality digital photo is about three megabytes, meaning just one terabyte can store more than 300,000 such pictures. The Bush administration e-mails alone would take up an estimated 600 million printed pages, said Alan Lowe, director of Bush's presidential library and museum. Combined with 70 million paper documents, the haul far eclipses the 550 to 580 million printed pages Lowe estimates are in all other National Archives' presidential libraries.