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The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online Colonial: Asia (Far East, Hong Kong, and Wei-Hai-Wei), Part I, located at Gale. gale.com/c/state-papers-online-colonial-asia-part-i, from publisher Gale.

The article discusses the restoration of the papers of scholar and educator Samson Occom to Occom's Mohegan homeland in Connecticut from their previous location at Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library. Topics include an overview of the papers, the recommitment of Dartmouth to its founding intent to recruit and educate Native American and Indigenous students, and significance of returning the papers to Mohegan land.

The article reviews the web site State Papers Online Colonial: Asia, Part I: Far East, Hong Kong, and Wei-Hai-Wei at gale.com/c/state-papers-online-colonial-asia-part-i from Gale.

The article reviews the Web site the Booker T. Washington Papers Digital Edition, located at rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/BTWN.html, from publisher University of Virginia Press.

The article reviews the online resources Carrie Chapman Catt Papers, located at bit.ly/2UiHHKt, and Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music, located at bit.ly/2JZrOoG.

The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782; Part IV: State Papers, Foreign, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey, from publisher Gale Cengage, located at https://www.gale.com/c/state-papersonline-eighteenth-century-part-iv.

Presents noteworthy United States government resources cited in the Library Journal 1999 Notable Government Document Awards. Trends including a mix of digital and print resources; Federal documents such as the web site Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (bensguide.gpo.gov/); State and local documents including the 'Oklahoma Disability Etiquette Handbook: ADA & Resources;' International documents such as the book 'Cities and the Environment: New Approaches for Eco-Societies.'

The article features Kathryn Funk, program manager for PubMed Central (PMC) at the U.S. National Institute of Health's (NIH) National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

The article reports on the cost-savings decision by the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library in New York to use toilet paper printed with advertisements for local businesses produced by Star Toilet Paper.

Discusses how the chemistry of paper production is shifting from acid to alkaline, according to a report from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York at Syracuse. Reasons for such a dramatic change in the paper industry; Profitable aspect of making alkaline paper; Way that alkaline paper causes less corrosion of machinery and office equipment, and is more permanent.

This article provides information on the Paper Preservation Symposium held by the Technical Association for the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. in October 1988. The symposium had very clear objectives: to describe the deterioration of paper, to describe techniques in production and process that would halt that deterioration, and to enable the scientists and manufacturers to communicate with the library profession and vice versa. The concept of bringing together in one place librarians, conservators, and paper industry personnel to talk about paper was the elegant brainchild of Richard D. Smith, president of Wei T'o Associates, one of the organizers of the symposium. The conference was preceded by a meeting organized by Ellen McCrady of Abbey Publications, which brought together a panel of librarians, conservators, and paper industry people to talk specifically about what each institution represented was doing for the cause of permanent paper. A cluster of other potentially divisive issues was raised around the concept of deacidification. The various deacidification processes halt the deterioration of paper by removing acid. They do not improve the paper but merely arrest its further deterioration.

The article reviews the website database "The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990" from the Gale firm Cengage Learning, located at http://www.gale.com/moml-aclu-papers.

The article reviews the website The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant Digital Edition, located at rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/GRNT.html.

The article reviews the Web site State Papers Online: The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, from publisher Gale Cengage, located at https://www.gale.com/c/stuart-and cumberland.

Reports that the board of regents of the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland has convened a Permanent Paper Task Force to advise the library and to encourage medical publishers to use permanent, acid-free paper in their publications. Availability of the paper; Plan of the task force to publicize the advantages of acid-free paper among medical editors and publishers.

Reports on the efforts of the National Library of Medicine in the U.S. to stop paper decay at its source. Proposal to use acid-free paper in the production of biomedical literature; Discussion on ramifications of the proposal; Propagation for mode of paper preservation.

Reports on the introduction of a sample resolution to establish a national policy on permanent paper in the U.S. Recommendation of the resolution; Timetable for the reintroduction of the legislation.

Reports on the campaign for publishers to use alkaline papers to preserve books. Deterioration of published materials using woodpulp; Preservation of the priceless publications.

This section presents news briefs related to library science and libraries in the U.S. as of April 1990. The vision of a virtual library, where a vast array of resources will be accessible to students and scholars via computer, is the central image behind the newly founded National Research and Education Network (NREN). NREN is the creation of the Coalition for Networked Information, founded by the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE--the organization for the management of information technology in higher education--and EDUCOM--a consortium of colleges and universities to facilitate information technology use in higher education. A new paper preservation process is being tested by the Lithium Division of FMC Corp. in Bessemer, North Carolina. The process, which is described as deacidifying, buffering, and strengthening acidic paper, will be tested in a pilot unit built in the North Carolina location this year. The FMC Corp. has been researching mass deacidification technologies since 1987. Gordon & Breach Science Publishers has succeeded in obtaining a temporary injunction against the American Mathematical Society (AMS), barring AMS from distributing in West Germany its November 1989 comparative price survey of science journals.

The article looks at the use of print management computer software by libraries in order to reduce paper waste. An overview of print management systems is provided, including charging patrons for printing, print release, and wireless printing. Print management software implementation is discussed for several libraries, such as the Ouachita Parish Public Library in Louisiana, King County Library System in Issaquah, Washington, and the Tulsa City-County Library in Oklahoma.

The article reviews the research database American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 from the firm Gale Cengage Learning.

A list of the book titles on crafts that are most in demand by libraries and bookstores in the U.S. from Baker & Taylor six months prior to the week ending November 24, 2018 is presented, including "Modern Macramé: 33 Stylish Projects for Your Handmade Home" by Emily Katz, "Handmade Houseplants: Remarkably Realistic Plants You Can Make With Paper" by Corrie Beth Hogg, and Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic" by Lisa Hoffman.

The article reports on a grant received by Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press, a digital humanities project at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to develop the Digital Library of Distinctive Type and the Coloring Book Paper Analysis Tool to analyze type and paper in late 17th- and 18th-century English language works. Topics include comments from project co-lead Matthew Lincoln, the first phase of the project, and a website to be created by the project.

Reports that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has begun discarding so-called examiners' copies from its collection of patents issued since the mid-19th century. Proposal to discard all paper copies and encourage patent research on a computerized database; Idea that the database will not be able to replace certain aspects of the paper copies; Proposal to discard the public collection of copies.

This article reports on the signing into law of PL 101-423 by U.S. President George Bush on October 12, 1990, making it the official policy of the U.S. that federal records, books, and publications of enduring value be produced on acid-free permanent papers. Under the auspices of the law, the Librarian of the Congress, the Archivist of the United States, and the Public Printer shall jointly monitor the federal government's progress in implementing the national policy. Vice chair of the Joint Committee on the Library, Senator Claiborne Pell declared that the law could result in a net reduction of costs to the government, in that the deacidification of government materials is setting the U.S. an estimate savings of $100 million. Several Library Congress publications are already printed on acid-free paper.

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.

The article focuses on the database coverage of the Political Science Complete (PSC) from EBSCO Information Services. Topics discussed include the use of publication type called Conference Paper that deals with public policy and administration, political economy, and human rights, the use of esoteric indexes such as author supplied keywords and company entity, and the ownership of subject-specific thesaurus with thousands of term used.

Reports on request made by Representative of California Vic Fazio to the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment for evaluating the appropriateness of using diethyl zinc (DEZ) deacidification process to preserve paper. Key points to be considered while evaluating DEZ.

The article focuses on a U.S. House of Representative's vote to repeal U.S. President George W. Bush's executive order which allowed ex-presidents and their heirs to block the release of their papers indefinitely. Additionally, the House of Representatives voted to require U.S. Presidents to reveal financial donors.

This article looks at the recall of government papers from libraries and how the protest of librarians reversed the government's position. The controversy began after the DOJ requested through the GPO's Superintendent of Documents that five documents distributed on civil and criminal asset forfeiture procedures were to be withdrawn and destroyed immediately, as they are intended for internal use only. The documents were Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure, Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms, Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes, Asset forfeiture and Money Laundering Resource Directory, and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA). Librarians, however, launched a campaign to reverse the order and the American Library Association (ALA) submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, asking why DOJ requested that documents that have been available for as long as four years be removed. Boston Public Library president Bernie Margolis, in a statement on the ALA Council electronic list, said he had asked that the decision be reconsidered and noted that he had copied the documents for cataloging as part of BPL's collection. Though DOJ officials said that the materials were inappropriately distributed to depository libraries through an error, Superintendent of Documents Judith Russell noted that the agency determined that these materials are "not sufficiently sensitive to require removal from the depository library system."

The article focuses on the results of a survey of undergraduates that found most students would start their research process on the Internet using internet search engines, while 20 percent would utilize a library catalog, and mentions library databases were considered the most valuable resource.

Reports that the National Information Infrastructure (NII) Task Force has released a White Paper proposing amendments to extend copyright regulations to include electronic data. Drafted by the NII's Working Group on Intellectual Property; Intent of the amendments; How the government hopes to coax information providers to mount protected data on computer networks; Opinion of various experts about the White Paper.

States that William K. Wilson's `Environmental Guidelines for the Storage of Paper Records,' is being offered by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) as part of its `Technical Report' series. Price; Contact point.

Reports that a Massachusetts Supreme Court jury ruled May 6, 1993 that Boston University (BU) is the rightful owner of roughly one-third of Martin Luther King's personal papers. Claims of King's widow, Coretta Scott King; Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta; Why the case is significant to archivists and special collections librarians; More.

Focuses on Gale Group, which attended the 2001 Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association. Agreement of Gale Group with Gannett to provide full text of Gannett's newspapers to Gale's web-based InfoTrac Custom Newspapers; Details of the Custom Newspapers database.

This article discusses a law passed in 2004 that has cleared the way for the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, Yorba Linda, CA, finally to receive the 37th president's papers, which have been held by the federal government in California. presidential libRichard Nixon's papers were seized by the government during the 1970s Watergate investigation. According to the AP, it will take until 2009 to relocate the 46 million pages of records, 30,000 gift items, and 3700 hours of audiotape.

Reports on the distribution of a substantial study from Germany on deacidification techniques to the library community by the Commission on Preservation and Access. Details of the study; Description of why past methods of deacidification are not effective; Information on how to obtain the study.

The article highlights the resolution issued by the Academic Interest Group of the Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) on the cost of serial subscriptions, reflecting a concern for the continuing rise in subscription costs. The resolution states that the costs of maintaining serial subscriptions are spiraling and that library budgets are shrinking. It continues therefore let it be resolved that PNLA strongly urges libraries to oppose this trend by every means possible including the termination of subscriptions and be it further resolved that PNLA disseminates this position to the appropriate professional and trade organizations. The association also issued a resolution urging publishers to use permanent paper for publications of enduring value and to so indicate its use on the verso of the title page, on the masthead of a periodical and in bibliographic references.

Reports on an announcement made at the annual meeting of the Ohio Conservation Committee in October 1985 to the effect that the Deacidification Task Force 'has selected the Wei T'o system modeled after the plant... at the Public Archives of Canada.' Reasons for choosing the Wei T'o process over the Library of Congress DEZ system; Plans of the committee to seek a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Deals with the plan of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to dispose several of the public's library paper copies of U.S. patents in August 2002. Purpose of the plan; Significance of the paper collection at public libraries; Estimated cost of maintaining paper issues at public libraries.

The article lists various books including "The Rogue" by Katharine Ashe, "Square Wave" by Mark de Silva and "The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" by Ken Liu.

A review of the web site Medieval Family Life: The Paston, Celys, Stonor, Plumpton and Armburgh Papers provided by Adam Matthew Ditigal at www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/ is presented.

The article reports on a paper on linked data solutions titled "Knowledge=Information in Context, which was written by Stefan Gradmann, a specialist in web-based knowledge from the collaborative digital library project Europeana.

Reports the donation of a collection of manuscripts, letters, still and moving pictures and sound recordings of Ernest Hemingway to the Library of Congress by A.E. Hotchner. Contents of the collection, including posthumously published works `Islands in the Stream' and `The Dangerous Summer'; Reasons for Hotchner's donation.

Reports that Butterfields, the eBay-owned auction house, announced that it has withdrawn from auction a collection of personal papers belonging to slain Nation of Islam Leader Malcolm X. Removal of the archive from sale until a title issue can be resolved; How the collection contains unpublished artifacts, including correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, and diaries; Objections of librarians and historians to selling the collection.