For millennia, great and not-so-great leaders have celebrated themselves in monuments. The ziggurats of Mesopotamia, the pyramids, the Forbidden City, the Louvre, and Monticello all convey their builders’ legacies, as did the many lavish palaces of Saddam Hussein.

Modern U.S. presidents have only their presidential libraries. Now that the George W. Bush era is almost over, the world needs a place to archive the legacy of the 43rd president.

The above is from the Chronicle. We are in the season for voting, and you can vote on this matter too. The Chronicle held “The Back-of-the-Envelope Design Contest” asking “readers to sketch their own visions” of what the George W. Bush Library should do and look like. “About 120 people sent in sketches that were good, bad, serious, humorous, abstract, or really angry. Their designs took the form of toilets, bunkers, crosses, and W’s, some crudely drawn and some very elegant.”

You can take a look at the designs here and vote for the best one. Voting ends March 20! As the Chronicle’s Scott Carlson puts it, if you felt that your vote didn’t count in 2000, it definitely will now.

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