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Reports that the Fales Library of New York University has launched a virtual exhibit of paper book bindings of the World Wide Web. What the exhibit includes; Address of the site.

Reports on the availability of Malcolm X documents at the New York Public Library in New York City. Access of researchers to the papers; Details on the collection; Historical importance of the materials.

Reports on the acquisition of the personal papers of James E. Allen by the New York State Library.

Private papers and personal effects covering two decades of the life of slain civil-rights leader Malcolm X were placed on long-term deposit at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City and will be available to researchers as early as May 19, 2004, which would have marked Malcolm X's 79th birthday. Two of Malcolm X's daughters, Ilyasah and Malaak Shabazz, turned over to the library for a 75-year period two large crates of hundreds of pages of materials--including letters, speeches, journals, and photographs--that had been the subject of an ownership dispute. Among the most significant items are diaries in which Malcolm X documented his trips to Africa and the Middle East, made soon after he broke with the Nation of Islam in 1964. The documents, which have yet to be assessed by scholars, were stored for years at the home of Malcolm's late wife, Betty Shabazz, in Mount Vernon, New York, and had been removed after her death in 1997. The Schomburg Center, located on Malcolm X Boulevard, is just a few blocks from the mosque where Malcolm X once preached.

Highlights useful resources in major areas of library/information activity. Donation of old postcards to the New York Public Library by Marshall and Prudence Montgomery; Acquisition of Ernest Hemingway's letters to his close friend Eric Edward Dorman-Smith by the Stanford University LIbraries; Donation of jazz bandleader Cab Calloway's papers and memorabilia to the Coppin State College's Cab Calloway Jazz Institute.

Reports on the acquisition of the papers of Y.C. James Yen by the Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Yen's archives of the organization he founded; International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR); Contents of the collection; Documentation of seven decades of work by the IIRR; Yen's personal papers.

Reports on novelist E.L. Doctorow's donation of all his papers, including manuscripts, drafts, galleys, screenplays, memorabilia, notes and correspondence, to the New York University's Fales Library. Naming of the collection as the E.L. Doctorow Papers.

The article discusses the highlights of the symposium, "Beyond the Desk," hosted by the Columbia University Libraries Reference Coordinating Committee held on March 14, 2008 at the Uris Hall of the Columbia Business School in New York City. The keynote address was delivered by Joe Janes, associate professor and association dean for academics at the University of Washington's Information School. Three papers of different topics were also featured at the symposium.

Discusses the symposium 'Libraries and the Search for Academic Excellence,' co-sponsored by the Columbia University School of Library Service and the University of Colorado. Debate on how libraries can become a more integral part of the education process in the United States and 'close the gap' between the classroom and the library; Topics of the 12 papers presented during the symposium.

The article reports that the New York Public Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division received a major archive of papers relating to the early gay-rights movement in the U.S. The Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs consist of letters, photographs, handbills, manuscripts, publications, and ephemera accumulated over nearly 50 years by Gittings and her life partner, Lahusen. Information on the achievements of Gittings and Lahusen is presented.

Reports that the New York University has received a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to assist in preserving and cataloging a collection of papers and photographs of Harold Acton and family. Background on the collection.

Reports that the New York Public Library's Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Laboratory has received a grant to create multimedia resources for training in the conservation of endangered paper manuscripts.

Reports that Columbia University Libraries and Academic Information Systems will conduct a seven-month study to determine the most acceptable techniques for preservation of and access to oversize color maps. Digital scanning of three different formats of the same five brittle maps; Production of full-size paper printouts from the digital images.

States that the old-fashioned kind of book that is printed on paper was the main topic at the May 2002 Book Expo America held in New York City. Description of the conference that featured booksellers, publishers, and authors such as Walter Mosley; Consumer spending on books; Indication that adult fiction writers are entering the market of children's books; Mention of prepublication excitement surrounding Jeffrey Eugenides and his historical novel about a hermaphrodite, 'Middlesex.'

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.