Sometimes, things are more real than you might think.

Take the Camp David exhibit at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. The shelves are being restocked for the grand reopening. That includes dozens of books.

Now if you think those books are just for show, think again. They're the real deal, the real books the 41st president stocked his Maryland shelves with, and they've been boxed up, along with a lot more.

With 43 million pages of documents, 100,000 artifacts and millions of photographs, you can pretty much imagine anything and they've probably got it in the collection library. Autographed sports memorabilia, countless portraits and trinkets from the former president's time as a vice president and CIA director are all stocked on shelves in the back rooms.

As archivist at the library and museum, Amy Day spends her days and nights with all those items.

"That's pretty much all we try to do is keep things organized, whether it be for an exhibition or a loan or just for storage," Day said.

Her charge has been to make sure everything they took out a few months back is put back in, along with a few new things that have been sitting behind closed doors.

"A lot of it needed to be sort of sorted through and looked at before we could use it, so now we get to use all the things we've been excited about having for ten years," Day said.

So how do you keep it all organized? It's all in the numbers, as each item in the collect is tagged with a set of digits that tracks who donated the items, along with how many items are in the gift.

"It's a real simple, basic thing, and you can teach a lot of people to use a system like that," Day said.

Not all of the goods will make it out in the public. Some items will appear depending on what exhibits roll out, but this treasure trove serves as the signature symbol of a man, his family, and their legacy.

With a presidential collection, you get to sort of discover things all the time," Day said. It really never gets monotonous in the sense that there's such a variety of material."

Now, many of those items are heading back out into the open, as the museum is set for its grand reopening at the beginning of next month.