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This article states that the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is in charge of collecting and organizing federal records, a job previously left to the individual agencies of the government. In 1939, Franklin Delano Roosevelt set aside a portion of his estate in Hyde Park, New York, to build a library that would house his presidential papers, which he later donated to the federal government. This formally launched the Presidential Library system, which the NARA now also operates. In 1955, Congress passed the Presidential Libraries Act, which called for privately built but federally maintained presidential libraries and encouraged presidents to donate their private and presidential papers to them. As of June 2007, NARA has maintained 11 presidential libraries.

The article announces several personal changes and awards related to librarians in the U.S., as of June 2016, including appointment of Krishna Nathan at S&P Global, Cheryl A. Middleton at Oregon State University, and presentation of Springer's Howard E. Brandt Best Paper Award to Mun Dae Kim.

The article announces the 2016 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award given to dean James L. Mullins of Purdue University and the Best Paper Award 2015 received by David Calligaris from the journal "Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC)."

This section offers digital information news briefs including Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) offering of double-blind peer review for its authors, the Global Commission on Internet Governance's latest working paper on Internet governance, and cybersecurity, and the Web of Things initiative.

Reports that the University of Iowa (UI) Libraries has been awarded a grant to digitize a collection of paper records relating to Chautauqua performances in the United States. Value of the grant; Information on the Chautauqua collection in the department of special collections; Popularity of circuit Chautauqua in 1904; Background information on Chautauqua's performances.