--- title: "White House Historical Association Moves to the Cloud" id: "38817" type: "post" slug: "white-house-historical-association-moves-to-the-cloud" published_at: "2017-07-07T20:26:51+00:00" modified_at: "2026-11-09T16:22:21+00:00" url: "https://associationsnow.com/2017/07/07/white-house-historical-association-moves-to-the-cloud/" markdown_url: "https://associationsnow.com/2017/07/07/white-house-historical-association-moves-to-the-cloud.md" excerpt: "The White House Historical Association, which has a relatively new digital library, is working with Amazon Web Services to significantly expand its online offerings to the public." taxonomy_category: - "Learning" taxonomy_post_tag: - "AssociationsNow" - "history" - "library" - "Technology" taxonomy_content_format: - "Article" taxonomy_role: - "Association CEO / Executive Director" - "C-Level" - "Executive Team" taxonomy_persona: - "Association Professionals" --- [Home](https://associationsnow.com/) » [Articles](https://associationsnow.com/format/article/) » White House Historical Association Moves to the Cloud Don’t be fooled by its name: The White House Historical Association isn’t afraid to go high-tech to highlight the presidency’s long history. The latest example? [Its digital library (opens in a new tab)](https://www.whitehousehistory.org/digital-library) . The association is using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform to build out its extensive digital archive of highly researched historical content. There’s a lot of it—seven terabytes of data, in fact, of which around 5,000 images are currently online. [According to FedScoop (opens in a new tab)](https://www.fedscoop.com/white-house-historical-association-dives-digitization/) , the group is using an Amazon Snowball appliance to upload its digital assets onto a physical device, rather than transferring data through the internet, with the goal of making the information accessible online. There’s much to digitize, including 25,000 35mm slides produced between 1960 and 1990. Stewart D. McLaurin, the association’s president, said the group wants to give Americans an up-close look at presidential history, even if they don’t live anywhere near the nation’s capital. “An important part of the White House Historical Association’s mission is education—especially for those that can’t experience it in Washington,” [McLaurin said in a news release (opens in a new tab)](https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-releases/white-house-historical-association-leverages-amazon-web-services-to-expand-digitization-of-historical-assets) . “By leveraging AWS, we will increase public access and bring White House history across the country to millions of Americans.” The next step will be to make the library’s resources available in app form, though the app is only in its early planning stages at this point. The association has expanded its tech footprint over the past year or so, [launching a podcast (opens in a new tab)](https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-releases/the-white-house-historical-association-launches-new-podcast-the-1600-sessions) in January and [creating an augmented reality app](http://associationsnow.com/2016/12/white-house-historical-association-releases-augmented-reality-app/) that turns a dollar bill into an interactive representation of the White House. The association’s digital library [celebrated its first anniversary (opens in a new tab)](https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-releases/the-white-house-historical-association-marks-one-year-anniversary-of-digital-library-launch) in March. An engraving of the White House’s south lawn, part of the association’s digital library. (White House Historical Association) [Ernie Smith](https://associationsnow.com/author/ernie-smith/) Ernie Smith is a former senior editor for Associations Now. 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