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Reports that the Barry Broadfoot collection is now available in the University of Manitoba Libraries' Department of Archives and Special Collections. Broadfoot as a well-known Canadian journalist and author.

Reports that the papers of Adele Goodman Clark, a prominent figure in the Richmond and Virginia political and arts communities, have been made available for research by the Cabell Library's Special Collections and Archives at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. Includes Clark's personal papers, as well as records of organizations with which Clark was actively associated during her lifetime.

Announces the development of a standardized form for data collection on services available to distant students by the Association of College and Research Libraries' Extended Campus Library Services Section (ECLSS) in the United States. Rationale of the development; Process involved in using the Uniform Statistics Data Collection (USDC); Possible uses of the form.

States that the papers of Hermine Dalkowitz Tobolowsky are available at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University. Reference to Tobolowsky's death in 1995; Tobolowsky's contribution to the Texas Equal Rights Amendment.

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.

Announces that the Indiana University received grants from the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services to make its fine arts and music collections available on the Web. Access to the information; Trial of the database in educational and public library communities in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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.

Focuses on the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR) publication of reports examining challenges involved in building coherent digital library collections that complement other formats. `Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources Issues and Practices,' by Timothy D. Jewell; `Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums'; `Strategies for Building Digitized Collections,' by Abby Smith.

Reports developments related to information science in the United States as of January 2002. Survey on the percentage of adults who use the Internet; Amount appropriated to the Government Printing Office; Research collections available at the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago.

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.

Focuses on the web site where final draft of a report by Marcia Bates on improving user access to library catalog and portal information has been made available by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Metadata Enrichment Task Force. Features of the report; Contents of the report.

This article reports that a consortium of libraries at five New York State independent colleges and universities have been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development of a resource-sharing system for academic libraries throughout the state. The project, called the ConnectNY, allows the institutions to share library holdings, making the collections of all five readily available to students, faculty and staff.

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.

This article highlights the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section program of the 124th Annual Conference of the American Library Association on June 23-29, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. Some speakers discussed the issues, challenges, and responsibilities involved in collecting and managing treasured cultural materials. David Easterbrook of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University, described the library's efforts to make the collection available to everyone, regardless of affiliation.

This article reports that the "Directory of Historical Textbook and Curriculum Collections" is now available from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The directory encompasses historical collections of school-book and curriculum materials in the United States and Canada. Entries include contact information, Web addresses, and brief narrative information.

The article reports on the participation of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Library and School of Information and Library Science in the Open Content Alliance (OCA). OCA is a group of international organizations that are constructing a permanent archive of digitized text and multimedia materials on the Web. The school is the first from a university to join the alliance, and the library is the first library to contribute manuscript materials. And collections included in the archive are freely available for access and reuse.

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.

Information on Brown University Library's Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection is presented. As of June 2007, the university has made available as a digital archive more than 6,200 prints from the collection, which includes over 50,000 pieces documenting all aspects of military and naval history. Brown plans to increase the digital archive to at least 15,000 images including uniforms, portraits, caricatures, military genre, and posters. Peter Harrington is the curator of the collection, which is considered the foremost collection of its type in North America. Mrs. John Nicholas (Anne) Brown, who died in 1985, amassed the collection over a period of 40 years. The Internet address for the archive is included in the article.

The article reports on Duke University Press in Durham, North Carolina and its development of an eBooks product. The author states that the "e-Duke Scholarly Books Collection" will be available for sale January 2009 to be preceded by a pilot program to begin in January 2008. The author also states that the collection will be made available to academic libraries through a perpetual access model. The author also states that the collection operates on the ebrary digital media distribution platform

The article reports on various publications related to preservation of sites and documents. The Nitrate Film Interest Group of the Association of Moving Image Archivists has mounted an online document with the name of "Identifying and Handling Nitrate Film." The document is available as a free PDF on the Internet. The American Library Association's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has published the "Guide to the ANSI/NISO/LBI Library Binding Standard," by Jan Merrill-Oldham and Paul Parisi. ICCROM, an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the conservation of cultural property, has published "Risk Preparedness: A Management Manual for World Cultural Heritage," by Herb Stovel.

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 discusses the benefits of student-led ethnographic research to the campus library. It states that students have a great deal of native expertise about their campuses such as the academic and social practices of other students. Ethnographic research characterized by close analysis, interviews, and interactions allows the campus to view the library from the view point of students and faculty. It is considered a group of methods that involves gathering whatever data are available to clarify the issues that are the focus of the research.

The article presents update on grants and acquisitions involving academic libraries. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation gave a 550,000 U.S. dollar grant to Washington University in Saint Louis Libraries to preserve the film "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965." The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) received 117,567 U.S. dollars from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to research on data curation. The James B. Sander Collection was donated to the John M. Kelly Library of the University of Saint Michael's College.

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 offers information on Islam manuscripts on the Internet. It presents a number of resources and sites that illustrate the depth of Islamic codicology, and the developments that have taken place in the scholarship.The Internet resources presented cover European languages and are divided between university collections, libraries and museums, and associations and miscellanea. Some of the resources include The Book of Curiosities from the University of Oxford, the Shanama Digital Index from Cambridge University, and the Oriental Digital Collection at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The section offers updates related to academic and research libraries. A digital collection documenting the life and work of Brooks Hays was launched by the University of Arkansas Libraries' special collections department. Four student films about the importance of open access to research and data were voted the best during the fourth annual Sparky Awards. The University of Kansas (KU) has taken the lead in forming a coalition with 21 other universities to establish the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI).

The article discusses the highlights the Association of College & Research Libraries (ARCL) programs during the American Library Association's (ALA) 130th Annual Conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana from June 23-28, 2011. Jason Young was the featured speaker for Lisa Hinchliffe's ACRL President's Program who challenged the attendees to make significant changes at the libraries and inspire those they interact with.

The article focuses on a lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild against the HathiTrust Digital Library and five U.S. universities on September 12, 2011. At issue is the arrangement of participants of Orphan Works Project with Google in scanning and digitizing books. They claim it is a copyright violation and the court should impound all copyrighted works in the HathiTrust collection. It cites the statement released by the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) in response to the issue.

This section offers news briefs on acquisitions involving U.S. college and research libraries. The Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York bought archival materials from Rose Associates. The University of South Carolina (USC) Libraries and the South Carolina State Museum purchased a collection of astronomy resources. Keene State College in New Hampshire has received the collection of letters, photographs and memorabilia of political activist Doris Haddock.

The article reviews the web site OSA (Open Society Archives) Archivum, located at http://www.osaarchivum.org/ and housed at Central European University.

The article offers academic library news briefs as of March 2012. San Diego State University (SDSU) has digitized its collection of the papers of civil rights leader Harold K. Brown. The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has endorsed the information access standard Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. Northeastern University Libraries has launched a new website available at library.northeastern.edu.

The article details the process by which Smith College Libraries developed a multilevel information literacy program that is unique to individual majors. After initially lacking support for the creation of a information literacy program, librarians gradually developed relationships and liaisons with each department that would help increase program interest and ultimately the program itself. The article covers the benefits of faculty involvement in the creation of the program as well as the challenge of sustaining the program's workload.

The article discusses the acquisition and digitization of archives, including Villanova University's indexed periodical records to be digitized by the Catholic Library Association, and the Justice for Janitors campaign materials acquired by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The article presents a variety of information related to the issue. Topics include the table of contents, a caption explaining the contents of the issue's cover image which features Rollins College student John Boyle at the Orlando, Florida, Aquaseum, as well as information regarding the editorial and subscription management of the journal.

The article previews the print/e-book "Interdisciplinarity and Academic Libraries," edited by Daniel C. Mack and Craig Gibson.

The article offers information on the Kathryn DeGraff Award for the Best History Department Undergraduate Methods Course Paper to be given by DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. The award was named after Kathryn DeGraff to commemorate her 40-year career as the university's Head of Special Collections and Archives. According to James Korkar of the university's Department of History, the works of DeGraff student have to ability to function as professional historians with primary sources.

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

This section offers an update on grants and acquisitions of libraries in the U.S., as of November 2012. It describes the Library Services and Technology Act grant given by the State Library of Ohio to the University of Cincinnati Libraries. It also discusses the funds received by the Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Library. Information is given on the Tuesday Academy Archive Special Collections donated to Keene State College's Mason Library.

The article reviews the web site http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/.

This section offers news briefs on U.S. library laws and legislation as of March 2013. An appeal with the Eleventh Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals was filed by publishers Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publications regarding their copyright infringement suit against Georgia State University (GSU). Information is also offered on registering for the 2013 National Library Legislative Day.

The article announces the winners of awards given by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) including Linda Baker, winner of the CJCLS EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Leadership Award, Erin T. Smith and Jamie P. Kohler, winners of the CLS ProQuest Innovation in College Librarianship Award, and Ellysa Stern Cahoy, winner of the IS Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award.

The article information about the Northwest Historical Postcards Collection exhibit launched by the University of Idaho Library's Digital Initiatives department available at www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/postcards/index.html.

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 announces that Carmelita Pickett has received the 2013 Association of Former Students Distinguished Librarianship Award, while George Frizzell was awarded the 2013 Thornton W. Mitchell Service Award by the Society of North Carolina Archivists.

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 focuses on guidelines for library services at the U.S. colleges for undergraduate students, which have been approved by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). It states that libraries should have their own mission statements and goals. It mentions that they should have assessment of library services including undergraduates who use and do not use such services.

The article evaluates the Native Peoples of Northern Great Plains Online Digital Images Database found on the website of the Montana State University-Bozeman Library.