BLOOMINGTON — A $60,000 grant will help Indiana University Libraries complete the processing of senatorial papers given to IU by former U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh.

The grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission will go toward the preservation, arrangement and description of about two million documents. The money will also help pay for an online guide showing what the collection contains.

IU Libraries said the collection will provide a complete picture of Birch Bayh's congressional staff workings and Bayh's work as a politician.

Birch Bayh served Indiana in the U.S. Senate from 1963 to 1981. As a senator he proposed what became the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, defining the presidential succession process.