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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 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 findings of the Lilead Project survey, which researched the conditions facing U.S. school libraries. Topics discussed include the lack of resources available to district school library supervisors, the professional development, technology support, and collection development responsibilities held by school library supervisors, and the stress experienced by school library supervisors. Charts and graphs illustrating the findings of the survey are also provided.

Explains the concept of the virtual library, a managed collection of information resources and services available electronically through the Internet. Library categories; Standard definition of digital libraries within the networked environment; Kay Gaspen's definition of the virtual library; A.J. Harley's definition of the virtual library; Hybrid library; Impact of the Internet and Web on libraries.

Discusses a trend in United States librarianship toward collecting, preserving and making so-called zine publications available for researchers. A definition of zines; The `Factsheet Five' collection at the New York State Library, which was donated by former editor Mike Gunderloy; Other libraries at which zines collections are available, including DePaul University, Bowling Green State University and Michigan State University; The value of zines

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

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.

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.

Replies to reader inquiries on library automation. Audio-visual materials and computer programs for training staff in library automation; Regional libraries with collections of microcomputer software available for other libraries; Printers used to accommodate Gaylord non-jamming continuous fan-fed catalog cards.

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 provides information on how the Booklist Online website can be used by librarians who are developing the collections of their libraries. An overview of the search functions which are available on the site is presented. The Dewey Decimal system, grade ranges, and keywords can all be used to refine a search.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Presents information on the British Library, London, England, focusing on the improvements made to its facilities. How the `New York Times' newspaper described the building; Accomodations of the library; Type of collections available; Background information on the library.

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.

Discusses how to create a career center in the library with available resources. Description of who the job seekers are as of August 2002; Topics of location for career materials and use of the three-year rule for thinning collections; Suggestion that libraries inform patrons about local resources, teach Internet tools, make available word processing stations, and offer job-seeking classes.

Replies to questions related to library science. Reading plans to expose elementary school students to various types of literature; Equipment and software for film collections; Resources available for libraries that want to sell or discard films. INSET: OVER TO YOU.

Details the issues discussed during the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Paper Preservation Symposium held on October 17-21, 1988. Usability of research library collections; Engineering answers to book preservation; Preservation technology choices available.

Presents news briefs related to libraries in Europe as of June 2006. Political leaders who supported France's call for the creation of a digital library; Response of French National Library President Jean-Noël Jeanneney to the announcement of Google that it would make books from the collections of major research libraries available online.

Mentions three books available from the American Library Association Order Fulfillment. 'Directory of Test Collections in Academic, Professional, and Research Libraries,' edited by Paul G. Fehrmann and Nancy Patricia O'Brien et al; 'Managing Electronic Reserves,' edited by Jeff Rosedale et al; 'Usability Testing for Library Web Sites: A Hands-On Guide,' by Elaina Norlin and CM! Winters.

Presents a checklist of recent announcements in regards to information and library science. Conversion of thousands of manuscript collection records to machine-readable form; Acceptance of a hundred thousand dollar bequest from Ethel M. Crate to the Tulsa Library in Oklahoma; Automation project to make Vermont's public and private library collections available to every citizen in the state; Other announcements.