Focuses on the discovery of the papers of historian Leon Trotsky and his son Lev Sedov at the Hoover Institution Archives in Stanford, California. Availability of the papers in microfilm.
Oder, Norman, Albanese, Andrew, Kuzyk, Raya, and Rogers, Michael
Subjects
*ACADEMIC libraries, *ARCHIVES
Abstract
The article reports that the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) library has acquired the literary archive of novelist Aldous Huxley. Shortly before her death in 2007, Huxley's wife, Laura, chose the UCLA Library to house the collection of literary materials and photographs by both Laura and Aldous.
Reports that a dispute between the University of California/Berkeley library and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) may threaten research libraries' abilities to build archives of scholars' papers. Focus and details of the dispute; Arguments of Berkeley library officials and NARA; Comments of Joseph A. Rosenthal, Berkeley university librarian.