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Reports that the papers of George Wilkins Kendall, a writer, former war correspondent and rancher, are available for research at the Special Collections Division of the University of Texas at Arlington. Includes correspondence, photographs, books and artifacts; Kendall's correspondence with the `New Orleans Picayune' which he co-founded with news from the front lines of Mexican War.

Assembled over centuries by the Jewish community in Copenhagen and concealed from the Nazis by the Danes during World War II, close to 2,000 works printed in over 115 locations from 1517 to 1939 have a new home at Stanford University. The Children's Book Council recently donated some 1,000 book publishers' catalogs to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, part of the McCain Library and Archives of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Approximately 1,000 boxes of papers, correspondence, audio-and videotapes, clippings, and memorabilia from former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) are now housed in Texas A& amp.M University's Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.

Offers news briefs related to libraries in the United States as of February 1, 2001. Offers by Baylor University and Southern Methodist University in Texas to house a presidential library for George W. Bush; Intention of author Robert James Waller, Jr. to bequeath part of his estate to Indiana University/Bloomington; Preservation of classic radio shows at the Library of Congress; Kidnapping of two women from the Johnston Lakes Library in Lake Park, Georgia; More.