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Choice announced in a June 30 statement the publication of the eighth in a series of white papers designed to educate on topics of importance to the academic library community. [...]

The American Library Association's (ALA) Joint Digital Content Working Group is tasked with advising ALA regarding opportunities and issues within its purview, including the provision of equitable access to digital [...]

It's no secret that librarians like books. For decades, those pages sandwiched between rectangles of cardboard have been the primary reason librarians sought and secured employment. As methods of communication [...]

Choice has published the sixth in a series of white papers. 'Supporting Scholarly Research: Current and New Opportunities for Academic Libraries' was researched and written during the COVID-19 pandemic and [...]

Choice magazine has published the first in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. This first paper, 'The [...]

Choice has released 'Course Materials Adoption: A Faculty Survey and Outlook for the OER [open educational resource] Landscape,' the third in a series of white papers on topics of importance [...]

Choice, a publishing unit of ACRL, will publish the fourth in a series of white papers on topics important to the academic library community. 'Implementing Marketing Plans in the Academic [...]

ALA has released a white paper, 'Library Programs and New Americans,' exploring how US public libraries can improve their services to new Americans. Through the New Americans Library Project, ALA [...]

Congress is getting sharply conflicting opinions on the value of Martin Luther King Jr.'s post-1960 papers, and Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), who persuaded President Clinton to include $20 million [...]

The personal papers and notebooks of San Francisco dock-worker-philosopher Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) were acquired by Stanford University's Hoover Institution in January. Hoffer's 1951 book The True Believer, a provocative analysis [...]

Legislation authorizing the Library of Congress to purchase Martin Luther King Jr.'s private papers was stalled shortly before Congress adjourned for the year due to growing concerns over cost, intellectual-property [...]

A man accused of stealing historical documents from the University of Arizona/Tucson Library and the Arizona Historical Society turned himself in to the FBI May 30 and will be arraigned [...]

George W. Bush should know better. His wife is a librarian, for goodness' sake. Any librarian knows the value of the United States census. When it comes to usefulness, it's […]

A February 6 fire destroyed part of a building at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee, that housed the school's library, some classrooms and laboratories, and most administrative offices. Although the [...]

Basic, practical information written in layman's terms for staff not trained in conservation is now available in Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual. Although the book is the [...]

A major collection of Ernest Hemingway material, including original manuscripts, letters, photos, recordings, and home movies, has been donated to the Library of Congress by Hemingway's friend and biographer A. [...]

'Achieving Racial and Ethnic Diversity among Academic and Research Librarians: The Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of Librarians of Color,' a white paper commissioned by ALA's Association of College and Research [...]

When the topic of Google Print came up at a recent meeting, one librarian made an interesting comment. His supervisor, he said, looked forward to having 15 million electronic books […]

The board of the Cook Memorial Public Library District formally censured its Vice President Jack Martin September 16 for 'censoring the library's holdings' without proper authority and for about a [...]

The papers of Mariana Wright Chapman, president of the New York State Suffrage Association in the 1890s, have been donated to Swarthmore (Pa.) College by Chapman's granddaughter, Anne Chapman Booth, [...]

The University of California at Berkeley announced January 2 that its Bancroft Library will be receiving more than 450 boxes of papers spanning the 30-year public service career of Robert [...]

Emory University in Atlanta has acquired the papers of author Salman Rushdie. To be housed at Emory's Woodruff Library, the collection contains Rushdie's correspondence, notes, photographs, and manuscripts, including those [...]

ALA's LRRT is seeking papers to be presented at one of two research forums that will be held during the ALA Annual Conference, June 21-27, in Washington, D.C. The deadline [...]

Papers that belonged to Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998), cofounder of the Black Panther Party, have been donated to Denver Public Library's Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library. An unidentified woman found the [...]

Atlanta's Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History has acquired the papers, photographs, and media materials of former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young. Young was a two-term mayor […]

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, has donated his papers to the University Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The [...]

One of the most disturbing things I've heard all year came out of Garrison Keillor's mouth during an interview (see p. 38) I taped while chasing him down the street [...]

Approximately 1,000 boxes of papers, correspondence, audio- and videotapes, clippings, and memorabilia from former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) are now housed in Texas A&M University's Cushing Memorial Library and [...]

Former President Bill Clinton will soon be releasing his presidential papers dealing with some of the confidential advice he received in the White House. His decision comes a full year [...]

Private papers and personal effects covering two decades of the life of slain civil-rights leader Malcolm X were placed on long-term deposit January 7 at New York Public Library's Schomburg [...]

Two missing volumes of a 1920s sports newspaper that covered the 1919 Chicago White Sox gambling scandal were returned to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library--one day after their [...]

Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, and the unpublished and published writings of USA Today founder Allen H. Neuharth are now housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The donated materials [...]

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore is sending conflicting messages about the papers he is holding, claims the lawyer representing the state library in mediation to settle the continuing dispute over [...]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah State University have resolved their dispute over a collection of papers donated to the university's Merrill Library by the late [...]

In EScholarship: A LITA Guide, editor Debra Shapiro and her team of experts explore viable e-publishing alternatives that are beginning to replace traditional scholarly communication structures. Included among the essayists [...]

The Upper Arlington (Ohio) Public Library board announced July 12 that it was reexamining its policy on distributing any free newspapers in the wake of demands by several area residents […]

Responding to critics who fear that the transfer of former President Nixon's materials from the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington to his library in Yorba Linda, California (AL, [...]

Former President Bill Clinton has said he wants to make 100,000 domestic-policy records available to researchers when his presidential library opens in Little Rock November 18, but the decision is [...]

The University of Texas at Austin paid $5 million to former Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for 75 file-drawersized boxes of notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and clippings related [...]

After a months-long dispute (AL, Nov. 2002, p. 28), former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore turned over to the state library 228 of the remaining 242 boxes of his administration's files [...]