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Reports on the suit filed by Coretta Scott King for the return of the collection of papers of Martin Luther King Jr. from Boston University in Massachusetts to Atlanta, Georgia. Coretta King's accusation that the university failed to preserve the collection; University's defense of its King collection.

Mentions the location of special library collections. Donation of papers of Gore Vidal to Harvard University's Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Relocation of the archives of psychiatrist Karl Menninger to the Kansas State Historical Society as a result of a lawsuit; Donation of personal papers of Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar to the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library in Ontario.

Discusses the dedication of the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity in Boston, Massachusetts. Remarks from the president of the library board; Guests in attendance; Cost of the facility; Description of the facility, which holds papers of the religious leader Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science; Significance of the collection for the Christian Science church; Remarks from librarians at the library.

Presents library collection-related news briefs as of October 1, 2001. Availability of papers by former Kansas governor Joan Finney at the Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas; Donation of thousands of tablets containing Tibetan Buddhist canon to the Harvard Divinity School by E. Gene Smith.