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The article features artists who use paper as a medium of art in New York City. Among them are Kirsten Hassenfeld, Maki Tamura and Jane South, who take paper in new directions by cutting, folding and layering the medium naturally and architecturally. The artists noted that they prefer to use paper because of its fragility. Leslie Jones of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art said that paper has stigma attached to it that cannot be compared with other works of art.

The article discusses shredded paper manufactured by the Downtown Alliance. Executive Steven Josefsberg delivered one-half ton of shredded paper to Broadway Avenue in New York City in preparation for a parade celebrating the New York Yankees’ victory in Major League Baseball’s World Series. Twenty of thirty-two buildings along the parade route accepted free paper from the Alliance.

Announces the donation of a grant from the National Park Service's National Center for Preservation Technology and Training to the Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Laboratory of the New York Public Library's Research Libraries. Plans to use the money toward the creation of two multimedia resources to train people in the conservation of paper artifacts and manuscripts; Distribution of the materials in multiple formats; Types of subjects the resources will depict.