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Looks at the private archives of stage manager Joseph Papp which the New York Shakespeare Festival donated to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Public accessibility to the papers; Papp as a New York Shakespeare Festival; Delivery of Marc Antony's funeral oration in `Julius Caesar'; Comprehensive look at the day-by-day running of a theater; Impact of Papp's archival legacy.

Describes the dilemma faced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts in running its online archive for research called DSpace as of June 25, 2004. Total number of items contained in the archive; Concerns of MIT professors about online archive; Strategy adopted by the university to build support for DSpace. INSET: Colleges Retain Their Part of the Broadcast Spectrum.

Reports that the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has installed additional security measures to prevent the recurrence of removal of classified documents. Details of the security measures specified through the March 31, 2004, policy announcement; Background on the incident involving Samuel R. Berger, the national security adviser to former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who took copies of classified documents from a reading room in 2003.

Reports that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has reclaimed historical papers that belonged to Mormon historian Leonard J. Arrington from Utah State University. Reason for the debate over the ownership of the collection of historical papers.

The article concerns a dispute over scholarly access to the papers of U.S. President George W. Bush. An executive order issued by Bush in 2001 restricted availability of presidential papers by asserting a sitting president's power to delay their release indefinitely. The order also requires a president's specific permission to release a document instead of an automatic 30-day release. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is scheduled to discuss a bill overturning Bush's order.

The article discusses issues related to the papers of journalist Jack Anderson which are being held by the library of George Washington University in Washington D.C. During his life and career as a muckraking journalist in Washington D.C., Anderson cultivated secret sources throughout the halls of the U.S. government--sources who passed on information that allowed Anderson to investigate and write about the Watergate Affair, Central Intelligence Agency's assassination schemes, and countless scandals. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have told university officials and members of the Anderson family that they want to go through the archive, and that agents will remove any item they deem confidential or top secret.

The article reports on the papers donated by activist Frank Kameny to the U.S. Library of Congress which document the evolution of the gay rights movement in the country. John Haynes, historian at the Library Manuscript Division, remarks on the value of the documents for researchers. The documents include original photographs of gay men and women picketing the U.S. White House in 1965.

The article presents information about the 1973 political strategy document of Karl Rove, political advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush. Rove's paper was found among the 78,000-page documents of the administration of former President Richard M. Nixon. In his nine-page memorandum to Anne Armstrong, then advisor to Nixon, Rove talked about his strategy to strengthen the Republican Party. The Nixon documents were released in the second week of July 2007.

The article reports that the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has opened to the public the documents of former president Richard M. Nixon. The papers were the first of the Nixon documents to be opened to the public since the former president filed lawsuits to control access to the papers. The documents are generally concerned with domestic policy issues in areas such as education, housing and science policy.

Reports that a group of archivists and historians in New York City have angrily denounced the transfer of former city mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's mayoral papers out of city custody.

Reports on the query of the commission investigating the September 11 attacks on why the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush had blocked classified foreign policy and counter-terrorism documents from the White House files of former president Bill Clinton from being turned over to the investigators. Confirmation of the White House regarding the issue; Response to the request of the commission; Investigation of intelligence and law enforcement failures.

Reports on the release of a set of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act regarding John Kerry's history with the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Purpose of the raw files composed of informer's tips, newspaper clips and FBI surveillance reports to scrutinize the purpose and members of the activist group in 1971; Recognition of Kerry's position as the spokesman for Vietnam; Revelation of Kerry's participation in a meeting discussing the killing of U.S. politicians supporting the Vietnam War.

Provides information on a document at the archives of the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in which the university's administration methodically harassed a number of young men for being gay.

Reports the purchase of the literary archives of author Susan Sontag by the University of California Library in Los Angeles, California.

Focuses on documents from the research group National Security Archive which revealed that several United States officials have knowledge on the genocide in Rwanda in early 1994.

Reports that the Archivist John W. Carlin has unveil a model of chemicals as part of the display system to be installed by the Year 2003 in the United States. Restoration of the National Archives and Records Administration Building; Arrangement plans for the display system; Conservation and examination of documents.

Reports that the resurgence of the Communist Party in Russia is threatening to end a project that has given scholars access to the archives of the former Soviet Union. Negotiations between project participants the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Palo Alto, California with the Committee on Archival Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The article discusses the crowdsourcing of historical document archival tasks, such as transcribing digital images of documents, and describes the debate over citizen participation in academic tasks. The War Office archive at the digital-humanities laboratory the Center for History and New Media is described, which hosts copies of digitized papers that were lost in November 1800 to a fire in the U.S. federal War Office. The Bentham Project, which crowdsourced the transcription of papers by philosopher Jeremy Bentham, is also mentioned. Citizen participation in science and humanities is also discussed.

Offers United States college news briefs as of June 16, 2000. Plan by Edison Schools, the for-profit manager of public schools, to provide teacher training; Plans of Columbia University to house the papers of New York City writer Murray Kempton.

Describes a web site at Stanford University in California entitled Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls. History of dime novels and their appearance during various eras; Resources which are available to scholars on the site, including thousands of images of cover art from the novels; Collection of dime novels at Stanford University, including a collection by P.J. Moran, an Oakland postal inspector.

Reports that a change in the law is sending papers and tapes of former President Richard M. Nixon in the Nixon library in the United States.

Presents the historical documents and papers that were discovered during renovation at the Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill, New York. Rules for the religious congregation's Sunday school; Financial ledgers; Meeting minutes.

Focuses on the Ted Hughes Papers at Emory University. Archive that opens a window on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's life and art; Poems, `Birthday Letters,' by Hughes; Comments by Stephen Enniss, curator of the literary collections at Emory; Contents of the archive; Focus on the two poets' seven-year marriage.

Presents the text of a speech given by U.S.-based archivist Edward Tenner at the 2003 Middle Atlantic Regional Archivists Conference, which deals with the subject of archival education.

Provides information on the creation of institutional repositories or super archives in universities and colleges in the U.S. Benefits of the superarchives to scholars; Information on the superarchive software developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Overview of the institutional repository built by the California Institute of Technology. INSET: Tools to Build a 'Superarchive'.

WASHINGTON -- As archivists prepare to make public 63 boxes of Robert F. Kennedy's papers at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, his family members are having second thoughts about where they should be housed and are considering moving them elsewhere because they believe that the presidential library has not done enough to honor the younger brother's legacy. Many of the papers, dealing with Cuba, Vietnam and civil rights, are classified as secret or top secret. There are also 2,300 other boxes covering every stage of Robert Kennedy's life, including his years as a United States senator and attorney general, most of which have already been opened for research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When Carmen Artache and her husband, Balmes Rosa, bought a 200-year-old house in Bloomville, N.Y., in the Catskills, they set about erasing the many renovations of previous owners. In the process of revealing the original structure, they discovered a closet hidden behind a wall, and a cache of old papers inside. The papers, more than 200 letters, notices, articles and other documents, belonged to S. B. Champion, the founder and editor of The Bloomville Mirror, a weekly newspaper published from 1851 to 1871. Almost all the documents, which were in a canvas bag, were from the Civil War years, and included everything from a local boy's Army enlistment paper (Champion notarized it), to a love poem written by a soldier to his Mary back home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the task of archiving papers and records of a former mayor of New York, Rudolph W. Giuliani. Name of the center where Giuliani's papers are to be archived; Type of recruitments to be done for the process of archiving; Reasons for the delay in the process of archiving.

Reports on an extensive collection of papers from 20th-century writers at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Collections from modern British and Irish writers; Collection of V.S. Naipaul's papers opened; Complete archive of V.S. Naipaul; Splitting of archives; Graham Greene's archive on market.

Reports on the concerns being expressed by officials at the Everett Community College, Everett, Washington, regarding the hundreds of confidential college documents appearing in a giveaway pile outside a barn, a property owned by a college employee. Who the property was previously owned by; Reference to the condition of these papers; What is included in the contents of these papers.

Opinion. Discusses projects initiated in the United States, to document the lives and writings of the nation's Founding Fathers. Details on the Jefferson Papers project at Princeton University which began in 1944, for the papers of Thomas Jefferson; Information on the George Washington project at the University of Virginia; Details on the Benjamin Franklin Papers project; Proposed cuts in the funds for these projects.

Looks at how conservators at the State Archives in Albany, New York are painstakingly working to preserve Revolutionary War-era papers. Overview of the conservators work; Discussion of the various material at the archive, which includes artillery plans related to the war and correspondences related to the work of Benedict Arnold.

Presents the author's experience of availing the opportunity to see Malcolm X's documents kept at the Schomburg Center in New York City. Reason why the center was chosen to house the material; Care with which caretaker Diana Lachatanere handled Malcolm's documents; Details pertaining to items contained in the crate bearing Malcolm's papers.

The article highlights the difficulty experienced by archivists and researchers in the U.S. in accessing records related to the Vietnam War. The political aspects of decisions made during the war made the documents scattered among government agencies and in papers of top officials. Vincent H. Demma, a historian at the U.S. Army Center for Military History, regards the scarcity of enemy archives as one of the most intractable problems in documenting the Vietnam war.

The article offers information on the release of former U.S. president Bill Clinton's administration documents which include private exchanges between Bill Clinton and advisers when he was the U.S. president, and also includes records about people seeking appointments to federal offices.

A trove of historic archive documents dating from Catherine the Great that were stolen after the Soviet breakup were returned to Russia on Friday by the United States. The 21 documents include decrees issued by Czar Nicholas II and Marshal Georgy Zhukov, a top-secret paper on the reconstruction of Russian military airfields in the 1930s, and Catherine the Great's decree to divide command of forces in Poland during the 18th-century partitions of the country. Russian officials alerted Washington about the documents when they appeared on Web sites of American auction houses. United States officials seized them between April and November, but no one has been charged with the theft, a United States Immigration and Customs EnforcementImmigration official said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Jack F. Kemp Institute for Political Economy established by the School of Public Policy of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. The institute is said to be established in honor of former New York Republican Congressman Jack Kemp and his contributions in public service. The institute will house the Kemp Archival Collection which includes papers, films, awards as well as other materials related to the political and private life of Kemp.

The article presents several reports published in different publications as of June 5, 2007. "The New Yorker" reported the number of papers collected by the literary archive at the University of Texas. "The National Journal" revealed that the large number of political appointees in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security threatened with a sudden loss of talent. "Los Angeles Times" featured the popularity of organic food in Beirut, Lebanon.

The article reports that the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is struggling to find a way to preserve the enormous volume of digital records the federal government produces, writes David Thlbot, a senior editor at the magazine "Technology Review." NARA is facing thousands of incompatible data formats cooked up by the computer industry over the past several decades, not to mention the limited life span of electronic-storage media themselves.

Provides information on the creation of an online version of the Women Artists Archives National directory in the U.S. Supporters of the project; Features of the directory; Definition of woman artist in connection with the creation of the directory.

Focuses on a public exhibition of the notebooks and other papers of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at Sotheby's auction house, New York City. Highlights of the exhibit; Private sale of the collection on behalf of the King estate; Documents, including a diary King kept while jailed for civil disobedience and an early draft of the 'I Have a Dream' speech; View that the collection is controversial; Estimated worth; Comments of King's widow, Coretta Scott King, David N. Redden, a vice chairman of Sotheby's, and historians; Issue of public access.

Focuses on the papers of Malcolm X that were to be sold at auction in March 2002, but are to be made available to scholars at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center in Harlem, under an agreement between his family and the center. Background on the documents, which have yet to be assessed by scholars; Comments of the center's director, Howard Dodson; Sample items, including photographs and a diary; Significance of Malcolm X's diaries and drafts of speeches.

Reports that Northeastern University has acquired the papers and archives of Elma Lewis. Information on the contributions and achievements of Elma Lewis; Role which Lewis played in Boston's racial politics.

The article reports that the Library of Congress has acquired the HistoryMakers archive that features life, history and culture of African Americans along with struggles and achievements of the blacks across the U.S.

Reports on the criticisms received by archivist Allen Weinstein on the refusal to release the documents for the books on Soviet espionage in the Stalin era and on Alger Hiss cases, at the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. Career background of Weinstein; Reason behind the decision of Weinstein to retain the documents; Issues raised by the U.S. Democrats to question Weinstein's commitment to public record access.

Covers Internet-related issues on higher education in the United States as of February 26, 2001. Description of an Internet archive of tobacco industry documents created by the University of California in San Francisco; Increase in the number of students applying online to British universities.

Reports that United States (U.S.) Library of Congress is acquiring the electronic archive of a set of publications/journals published by the American Physical Society (APS). Terms of the acquisition deal between the Library of Congress and APS; Amount approved by the U.S. Congress for the digital-archiving projects of the library; Factors that contributed to the decision of the library to buy the electronic archive of APS.

Focuses on the Long Now Foundation of San Francisco, California, whose mission is to explore whatever may be helpful for understanding and acting responsibly over long periods of time. Their plans to build a mechanical clock that will run for 10,000 years; When the foundation was formed; Its long-term library which will preserve for centuries records on research, science, and public policy.

Reports the creation of a project to catalogue and archive a collection of medieval Judaica, named the Cairo Genizah project. History of the collection, which was discovered in an attic in Cairo during the 18th or 19th century; Monumental scope of the task; Discussion of the costs of and support for the project; The project's coordination from New York University; Importance of the documents, including the contents of the collection.

Takes a look at two topics regarding computers and education. The creation of the Advanced Cluster Computer Consortium by Cornell University; The goal of the consortium to find ways to link inexpensive computer equipment to replace more costly computers; The grant awarded to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to research preservation of electronic records.