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Reports that the Center for Paper Permanency of the New York Public Library will serve as a clearinghouse for information about ongoing efforts by various organizations involved in permanent paper advocacy efforts in New York City, New York. Provision of information on permanent alkaline paper; Advantage of using alkaline paper.

Reports on the acquisition of the complete papers of novelist John Gardner by the University of Rochester in New York.

Reports on the developments concerning libraries in the U.S., as of November 1988. Approval of a library bond issue for the King County Libray System in Seattle, Washington; Symposium of the Technical Association for the Pulp and Paper Industry on permanent paper and deacidification; Presentation of the library schools to encourage placement officers to present librarianship to undergradutes in New York.

Features the W.B. Yeats Microfilmed Manuscript Collection at the State University of New York at Stony Brooks. Size of the collection; Accessibility of the collection.

Presents an interview with the developers of the Integrated Tool for Selection and Ordering (ITSO), Cornell University librarians Adam Chandler, Scott Wicks, and Peter Hoyt. Purpose of ITSO, which organizes new title information into a single interface, replacing paper systems; Description of how ITSO works; Consideration of the capital needed to take ITSO beyond Cornell.

Presents an edited version of a paper presented by Richard De Gennaro, Director the New York Public Library, at the Second Pacific Conference on New Information Technology, dealing with the need for libraries to become innovative in order to survive. Introduction to technology to libraries; Libraries in the info marketplace; Erosion of the free library ethic and the blurring of roles.

Although the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online was not the Brooklyn Public Library's (BPL) first digital project, it has become a catalyst for change and future library initiatives. Like many local history collections nationwide, BPL's Brooklyn Collection was eager to digitize materials for improved access, especially the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In 2001, the library received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant to digitize the microfilm of the Eagle from 1841 to 1902. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, founded in 1841, was Brooklyn's newspaper of record. After the Eagle ceased publication in 1955, BPL received the paper's morgue and related files. Today, they are the centerpiece of the Brooklyn Collection, which also houses books, photographs from the Eagle and from other photographers, newspaper clipping files, and manuscripts, prints, and illustrations. June Gaddy, Brooklyn Collection's CLASP (Connecting Libraries and Schools Program) librarian, regularly delves into African American and neighborhood history as represented in the Eagle Online as she works with teachers and students on local history projects. Not only has the Eagle Online opened up research, but it has also generated discussions within the institution about the role of the public library in the digital world. INSET: Nuts & Bolts.

This article reports on the declaration signed by authors and publishers at the New York Public Library in March 1989 to support book preservation. The moving force behind the commitment was author Barbara Goldsmith, who gave $1 million to the library for the Goldsmith-Perry Preservation Laboratory. Goldsmith then noted her plan to enlist authors in her crusade to save future generations from the need to spend more money on preserving books. The problem can be alleviated by printing books on permanent paper. Tom Wolfe read off the list of writers who had signed the declaration, and they included Frances Fitzgerald, Susan Isaacs, George Plimpton and Maurice Sendak. Robert Bernstein of Random House noted that 98 percent of Random's first printings are on acid-free paper. Jeremiah Kaplan of Simon & Schuster announced the publishers who had signed. Permanent, acid-free paper will last a minimum of 300 years, in contrast to acidic paper, which becomes brittle and dark after about 30 years. About 30 mills produce permanent paper in the U.S. Prices are comparable, and nonacidic paper production is less harmful to the environment. Two paper mills can produce permanent paper from recycled paper and the biological decomposition of permanent paper is comparable to acidic paper.

Presents news briefs related to libraries and library science in the United States as of June 15, 2001. Problems surrounding the storage of books and newspapers, in light of the book 'Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper,' by Nicholson Baker; Appeal to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court of a decision which blocked enforcement of the 1998 Child Online Protection Act; Bill which would help stop those who prey on children over the Internet; E-mail reference service instituted by the New York Public Library; More.

Remarks that Cornell University in Ithaca, New York has received a large collection of Early American papers. Features of the collection including previously undocumented letters by John and Abigail Adams; Works donated by Sarah Johnson, a university graduate student, and her sister, who are descendants of the Adamses.

Advises that two universities have obtained the materials of two notable authors. Purchase of Tennessee Williams' library and personal archive by Columbia University; Donation by Marcia Brown of her personal papers to the State University of New York (Albany) library's Department of Special Collections. Brief details.