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Reports the electronic availability of the editorial cartoons by Clifford Baldowski through the Digital Library of Georgia. Theme of the political cartoon collection; Awards and achievements of Baldowski; Contact information.

The author describes the creation of an assignment that combined physical and digital resources for an archival journey into Japanese American incarceration and internment for the first Asian American Politics seminar offered at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. The author explains how the assignment worked for students by engaging them with the library, consulting with liaison librarian, reevaluation of archives and college libraries and research agenda development.

The article focuses on a recent report by College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) that examines trends in diversity and pay equity among higher education administrators from 2002 to 2022. Topics discussed include gender representation and pay equity, as well as trends in composition and pay equity by race/ethnicity and gender within the higher education administrator workforce over the past decade.

The article offers news briefs related to various notable acquisitions made by various institutions. UCLA Library received the Michael and Susan Kahn Political Cartoon Collection. The Library of Congress acquired rare materials from the development of "Hadestown." Marvel Comics artist Adam Kubert donated Joe Kubert's comic art archive to RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection.

This section offers news briefs on library grants and acquisitions in the U.S. as of March 2024. Topics discussed include awards given to higher education institutions and libraries, archives, and museums from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative announced by the Library of Congress (LoC), and availability to researchers of the Beauford Delaney Papers acquired by the University of Tennessee Libraries in 2022.

The article offers information on the University of California-Santa Barbara's digital library which has made images and audio recordings from the Special Collections Department of UCSB's Davidson Library available online.

The article discusses two publications released by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Creators in the Academic Library: Instruction and Outreach and Creators in the Academic Library: Collections and Spaces. It focuses on teaching creator research and enhancing students' understanding of their practice and emphasizes the role of academic libraries in creating collections, and communities for creators using academic literature technical standards and how-to manuals.

The article offers information on the development of Audiobook-on-Ipods program in the U.S. It states that the Research Library at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established the program using leadership and management audiobooks. It describes audiobooks as digital sound recordings of books that can read aloud and have become widely used over the past few years. It explores the inclusion of audiobooks in the library's collections, and investigates the best way to make the audiobooks available for customers.

The article focuses on the release of the 2022 Digitizing Hidden Collections Symposium proceedings by Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Topics discussed include the celebration of the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program funded by the Mellon Foundation on digital archives for liberatory uses, and various papers covering privacy protection, workflow implementation, and exhibit creation in digitization efforts.

The article reports on the launching by Project MUSE of its Annual Frontlist Collections of newly published books from scholarly publishers and university presses that can be purchased by libraries.

The article reports on the launching by Bloomsbury of its Bloomsbury Visual Arts digital hub comprising of online visual arts collections like the Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts and Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism.

The author explores the development of a COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine zine collection by the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library (RBML) at the Ohio State University. Topics discussed include the aim of RBML to provide access to primary source materials from medieval manuscripts to contemporary novels, efforts of the author to follow the Zine Librarians Code of Ethics in developing the collection, and visible changes caused by the pandemic featured in art and photography zines.

The article presents the report on two invitational workshops with experts in learning and research applications of emerging technologies by The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE.

The article presents the American School of Architecture Archive launches at The University of Oklahoma (OU) Libraries documenting the work of OU architecture students under the direction of Oklahoma architects such as Bruce Goff and Herb Greene.

The article reports that Otter.ai, an artificial intelligence meeting assistant, offers a solution for automated note-taking during online meetings, supporting platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet by recording audio, transcribing with speaker identification and timestamps.

The article reports that Project MUSE has initiated a significant expansion of Spanish and Portuguese language book content on its platform by partnering with numerous distinguished university presses from Latin America, aiming to make their output more easily accessible to libraries.

The article highlights grants awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, to support libraries and archives nationwide through National Leadership Grants for Libraries and the Laura Bush 21 Century Librarian Program. Topics include Private Academic Library Network of Indiana Library Innovation Grant recipients, San Diego State University (SDSU) Center for Comics Studies receiving a grant for a teaching institute on using comics, and acquisitions by SDSU Library.

The article announces The Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) national awards for federal librarianship, which includes libraries and individuals from the US Naval Academy, Spangdahlem Air Base, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The article discusses OverDrive Academic launched new open access and flexible digital content collections for academic libraries, allowing for unlimited concurrent use and greater cost certainty and it reports Taylor & Francis' Inc. open access collection provides free access to academic content.

The article reviews websites on LGBTQ located at https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/, https://www. glbthistory.org/ and https://www.invisiblehistory.org/ by Digital Transgender Archive.

The article offers information on several libraries located in Cleveland, Ohio. It includes Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland State University Libraries, and Case Western Reserve University Libraries. Academic libraries that are dedicated to higher education, research, and cultural heritage include Case Western Reserve University Libraries, Libraries of the Cleveland Institute of Art and Cleveland Institute of Music, and Libraries of the University Circle Museums.

Reports that the Old Dominion University (ODU) Library's Special Collections are available to researchers. Types of resource materials available from the library; Components of the manuscript collections; Background information on the library.

The article reports that Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Inc. has introduced Choreo Insights library analytics solution to align academic library collections with institutional priorities, curriculum needs, and future trends by using WorldCat holdings data.

The article discusses on Notion is a cloud-based tool that helps with project management and task organization, offering customizable databases, calendars, and linked pages and it reports that it is free for individuals in higher education and can track accomplishments in various areas of academia.

The article discusses that the Association of College and Research Libraries has announced the publication of the book "3D Data Creation to Curation: Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation," which captures best practices for three-dimensional data preservation, management, and access.

The article discusses that Penn State University Libraries has entered into an agreement with SAGE Publications that will help to expand access to scholarly content, promote open access publishing, and increase the visibility of Penn State research.

The article offers information related to creating a collection maintenance unit in technical services at the University of Illinois-Chicago. It is stated that the establishment of the new unit started in August 2016, just before the beginning of the fall semester. It is noted that it also brought together a team to care for and monitor physical library collections throughout their life cycle.

The article discusses how librarians can participate and support ever expanding diversity and inclusion initiatives on campuses across the U.S. It is noted that culturally responsive teaching is a method of incorporating various students' cultures and lived experiences into their education to improve their classroom engagement, content relevancy, and fostering diverse perspectives.

The article informs that the Institute of Museum and Library Services have announced Native American Library Services Basic Grants designed to support and improve library services of Native American, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian organizations.

The article informs that the Penn State University Libraries has expanded its robust scholarly research potential through the acquisition of the Toby and Betty Bruce Collection of Ernest Hemingway. It mentions that now housed in the University Libraries' Eberly Family Special Collections Library, the collection includes unpublished writing, manuscripts, handwritten letters and notes, more than 1,000 photos, and other documents and memorabilia.

The article reports that the publishing company EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has RIPM Electronic-Library (e-library) of Music Periodicals, which is a collection of documents related to researches on music.

The article reviews the Picturing Appalachia digital collection of 20th century photographs of the Southern Appalachian mountains that was launched by the Western Carolina University Hunter Library and Great Smoky Mountains National Park available at www.wcu.edu./library/DigitalCollections/PicturingAppalachia/.

The article offers library news briefs in the U.S. as of September 1, 2016. Topics include the installation of a 1851 Columbian printing press at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library, the expansion of the University Libraries Facility of Syracuse University and the prize earned by the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library project Chronicling Hoosier in the National Endowment for the Humanities' nationwide contest.

The article reviews the web site Duke University Libraries Digital Collections, available on www.library.duke.edu/digitalcollections.

The article reviews the web site on the digital collection of the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library available at https://dlc.libarary.columbia.edu/durst.

The article discusses the plan of Florida State University Libraries' Special Collections and Archives Division to establish a research collection on Emmett Till, an African American teenager who was murdered in 1955, which will feature newspaper coverage of his murder trial and court proceedings.

The article discusses a series of events to be held in Chicago, Illinois from October 1-10, 2015 including an inaugural lecture sponsored by Chicago Collections and the Chicago Open Archives showcasing library collections for both residents and visitors.

The author reports that the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) is starting a new program to allow libraries to combine the cooperative power with other OCLC members. This is possible through the ability to customize the library website www.WorldCat.org. This system will allow libraries to search the website and have the results be presented by what the program believes would be the most accessible by the library patron, such as material available at the home library, collections shared in a consortium and also open access collections.

The National Center for Education Statistics' biennial collection of statistical data from college and university libraries will open officially on November 22, 2004. Academic library directors received a letter containing a registration certificate in October, including a user identification and password to access the web-based forms. The interactive menus, available on the agency's web page will be available on March 22, 2005. As soon as possible after the end of the data collection period, 2004 data will be available in the Academic Libraries Peer Comparison Tools. Upon completion, a summary report of the 2004 data will be posted on the agency web site.

Reports that Earlham College's Library and its Friends Collection and Archives have made available on the Web the American Friend Obituary Index. Name change from `The American Friend' to `Quaker Life'; Creation of the index by Tom Hamm; Publication on the Friends Collection Web pages by Neal Baker.

The article discusses that Online Computer Library Center and Google are working together to link directly from books discovered through Google Search to print book records in the catalogs of hundreds of U.S. libraries to connect people directly to library collections.

The article focuses on Intellectual freedom associations and U.S. and international advocacy organizations. Topics discussed include the American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE) which educates booksellers and other groups on the importance of press freedom; the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)involved in intellectual freedom issues; and the U.S. Freedom to Read Foundation which supports U.S. libraries and individual librarians.

The article reviews several web sites including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), located at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org, the Ornithology Exchange, located at ornithologyexchange.org, and the Global Raptor Information Network (GRIN), located at http://globalraptors.org/grin/indexAlt.asp.

The article reports the move by digital library Journal Storage (JSTOR) as of May 2015 to offer all the 25,000 titles in its electronic book (ebook) program exclusively in a digital rights management (DRM)-free unlimited-user model.

The article reports the acquisition by library supplier ProQuest as of May 2015 of SIPX, a creator of unique digital course materials solution, through its affiliate Bowker.

The article announces the publication of "2013 Academic Library Trends and Statistics" by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Topics discussed include the library expenditures of academic libraries in all Carnegie classification of institutions of higher education, their library space usage, and their expenditures for salaries and wages.