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On September 21, Jūratė Kazickas, the President of the KFF met with Prof. Egidijus Aleksandravičius. member of the Board of Directors of Valdas Adamkus Presidential library. During the meeting they discussed care of Dr. J. Kazickas' archives and development of a room dedicated to Dr. J. Kazickas' contributions.
Dr. J. Kazickas was one of the first people to find out about an idea to build such library and he became a big supporter. He encouraged to keep going to achieve this goal - to open the first Presidential library in Europe. Prof. Aleksandravičius mentioned that witha a huge respect library accepts the responsibility to preserve, research and take good care of Dr. J. Kazickas' archives.
V. Adamkus Presidential library plans to open an exposition dedicated not just to V. Adamkus' life, but also to the entire Lithuanian emmigrants diaspora, history of Lithuania's road to the West and ideas about liberal democracies. Exposition will include the most outstanding Lithuanians from all over the world. It was also mentioned that exposition's story should have special space for Dr. J. Kazickas, a person who gave so much to Lituania, it's culture and business.
Library already received archives of more than seventy lithuanian emigrants and organizations whose contributions to Lithuania will be included in the exposition. Researchers, students, scientists will have access to the archives of Vytautas Kamantas, Aleksandras Štromas, Vytautas Kavolis, Liūtas Mockūnas, Raimundas Mieželis, Santaros Šviesa and many more.