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The article discusses the restoration of the papers of scholar and educator Samson Occom to Occom's Mohegan homeland in Connecticut from their previous location at Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library. Topics include an overview of the papers, the recommitment of Dartmouth to its founding intent to recruit and educate Native American and Indigenous students, and significance of returning the papers to Mohegan land.

The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online Colonial: Asia (Far East, Hong Kong, and Wei-Hai-Wei), Part I, located at Gale. gale.com/c/state-papers-online-colonial-asia-part-i, from publisher Gale.

The article reviews the web site State Papers Online Colonial: Asia, Part I: Far East, Hong Kong, and Wei-Hai-Wei at gale.com/c/state-papers-online-colonial-asia-part-i from Gale.

The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online: The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, from publisher Gale Cengage, located at https://www.gale.com/c/stuart-and cumberland.

The article reviews the Web site the Booker T. Washington Papers Digital Edition, located at rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/BTWN.html, from publisher University of Virginia Press.

The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782; Part IV: State Papers, Foreign, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey, from publisher Gale Cengage, located at https://www.gale.com/c/state-papersonline-eighteenth-century-part-iv.

Reports that the U.S. Library of Congress has issued a statement encouraging the widespread use of acid-free paper in the manufacture and publication of books. Short estimated life expectancy of books printed on acid paper; Need to use alkaline paper; Issuance of guidelines for paper longevity.

This section presents news briefs related to library science and libraries in the U.S. as of April 1990. The vision of a virtual library, where a vast array of resources will be accessible to students and scholars via computer, is the central image behind the newly founded National Research and Education Network (NREN). NREN is the creation of the Coalition for Networked Information, founded by the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE--the organization for the management of information technology in higher education--and EDUCOM--a consortium of colleges and universities to facilitate information technology use in higher education. A new paper preservation process is being tested by the Lithium Division of FMC Corp. in Bessemer, North Carolina. The process, which is described as deacidifying, buffering, and strengthening acidic paper, will be tested in a pilot unit built in the North Carolina location this year. The FMC Corp. has been researching mass deacidification technologies since 1987. Gordon & Breach Science Publishers has succeeded in obtaining a temporary injunction against the American Mathematical Society (AMS), barring AMS from distributing in West Germany its November 1989 comparative price survey of science journals.

The article reports on the cost-savings decision by the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library in New York to use toilet paper printed with advertisements for local businesses produced by Star Toilet Paper.