On Inauguration Day, we set up a video camera in the Library rotunda and asked customers to create 2-5 minute testimonials capturing their immediate thoughts and reactions to the day's events.

Over a 7-hour period, 55 people recorded their experiences and nearly 100 people have submitted written accounts (and illustrations!) to date. It is our hope that these voices will be of value to future students, teachers, historians and scholars interested in what Topekans had to say...