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This article reports that social scientist and author Lon G. Nungesser has donated his Hope for Humanity papers to the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Diagnosed as having AIDS in 1983, Nungesser was given six months to live, as of February 1989, but chose to avoid traditional therapy in favor of health food, exercise, yoga, and meditation. Six years later the cancer he developed is in remission and he is in fair health. The decision to donate his papers came as a result of his desire to have his work preserved for others as a foundation from which to build medical and social systems that promote a healthier personal psychology.

The article highlights the author's study on teaching effective book-selection strategies and inspiring engaged readers in the library media center. Results show the contrast between book selection strategies of the subject-children. She notes that the contrast highlights the complex nature of book selection and underscores the challenges that children can face when selecting books. She concludes that by teaching children effective strategies, the library media center can play an important role in inspiring children to become engaged readers.

Reports that the board of the Cook Memorial Public Library District censured vice president Jack Martin on September 16, 2003 for censoring the library's holdings without proper authority. Description of the vulgar and distasteful story which prompted the disciplinary action; Justification issued by Martin for his action; Reason behind the re-adoption of the collection development policy of the library.

The article looks at the development of The Vietnam Project, which provides digital information resources. Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, is ramping up The Vietnam Project (www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcenter) with several massive digitization initiatives that will make major resources far more accessible. Launched in 1989, the project consists of two units, The Vietnam Center and The Virtual Vietnam Archive, along with smaller subdivisions: The Oral History Project, The Vietnam Archive, and The Teachers' Resource Web. The project was the brainchild of TTU history professor and navy veteran Jim Reckner, now its director, and a group of local Vietnam veterans, who approached the Board of Regents, which embraced the project. After existing on paper for more than a decade, the project began incorporating a virtual archive in 2001 using a collection management system called STAR/ Museums from Cuadra Associates (www.cuadra.com). The project continually receives materials from veterans -- roughly 1500 total, including 465 in the last year alone.

The article offers technology industry news briefs as of May 2018. The Library of Congress (LC) announces the online availability of the papers of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that include their correspondence, speeches, and materials from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. Gale Small Business Builder comprehensive tool is offering integrated access to its business and legal resources. Solutions provider bibliotheca debuted its open library solution in North America.

The article presents an update on acquisition of library collections. A deal has been forged that will move the collection of private papers of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. A collection of printed items from the U.S. revolutionary era was given by Marvin and Sybil Weiner to the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. The uncollected papers of novelist Saul Bellow were acquired by the University of Chicago in Illinois.

Presents news briefs on library collections in the U.S. as of June 2004. Information on the collection of works by and about novelist Vladimir Nabokov donated by Russian scholar Fan Parker to the University of Michigan Library; Acquisition of the papers, photographs and materials of former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young by Atlanta's Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History; Donation of the papers of "Chicago Sun-Times" film critic Roger Ebert to the University Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The article presents an overview of the American Library Association Archives, which has been housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1973 and is home to a vast collection of records, including historical files, audiovisual materials and personal papers. A discussion of instructions on how to make donations to the archives which can be found at the web site archives.library.illinois.edu/ala/donate-materials is presented.

Offers information on publications relating to library collections. Inclusion of the donation of the papers of Abel Wolman to the Special Collections Division of Johns Hopkins University; Release of the book 'The History of Books: A Guide to Selected Resources in the Library of Congress,' by Alice Schreyer.

Presents updates concerning library collections in the U.S. as of May 1, 2003. Acquisition of documents related to the Watergate scandal involving former President Richard Nixon by the University of Texas at Austin; Private papers and other materials from screenwriter and novelist Terry Southern which are included in the Berg Collection at New York Public Library; Acquisition of the personal collection of book dealer André Savine and his wife, Svetlana, by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's library.

Reports news items related to library collections. Donation by the family of William Robert Gibson of a collection of science-fiction books and magazines to the University of Calgary in Alberta; Presentation of the personal papers of silent-film star Harold Lloyd to the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, California; Collection of Latin American music from Puerto Rican historian Cristobal Diaz Ayala, which was given to Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

Offers news about library collections in August 2002. Personal collection of photos and papers of silent-film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. turned over to the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Purchase of the Cecily Brownstone Collection of American Cookery by New York University; Price paid for a collection of James Joyce manuscripts purchased by the National Library of Ireland at Sotheby's in London, England.

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.

Mentions library acquisitions in the United States of archival materials. Acquisition of author Kurt Vonnegut's papers by the Indiana University/Bloomington's Lilly Library; Purchase of the `Paris Review' archives by Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.

Opinion. Stresses the need for good relation between a librarian involved in collection development and his or her online vendor. The advantages of commercial Internet databases over equivalent CD-ROM and paper products; Two notable characteristics of such databases that necessitate good vendor relations; The importance of the first phase of the relationship.