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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.

Although the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online was not the Brooklyn Public Library's (BPL) first digital project, it has become a catalyst for change and future library initiatives. Like many local history collections nationwide, BPL's Brooklyn Collection was eager to digitize materials for improved access, especially the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In 2001, the library received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant to digitize the microfilm of the Eagle from 1841 to 1902. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, founded in 1841, was Brooklyn's newspaper of record. After the Eagle ceased publication in 1955, BPL received the paper's morgue and related files. Today, they are the centerpiece of the Brooklyn Collection, which also houses books, photographs from the Eagle and from other photographers, newspaper clipping files, and manuscripts, prints, and illustrations. June Gaddy, Brooklyn Collection's CLASP (Connecting Libraries and Schools Program) librarian, regularly delves into African American and neighborhood history as represented in the Eagle Online as she works with teachers and students on local history projects. Not only has the Eagle Online opened up research, but it has also generated discussions within the institution about the role of the public library in the digital world. INSET: Nuts & Bolts.

Reports on a ruling by the United States Supreme Court that allows the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to destroy electronic records once paper copies are created. Challenge against the destruction of electronic records by the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Historical Association (AHA); Claim that some records were destroyed without the creation of a printed copy.

The article reports the announcement of a partnership between ProQuest, a digital information provider for libraries, and JISC Collections, a supplier of online content. The joint venture has been started to provide access to parliamentary papers from the collection of the British House of Commons. Also reported is an increase in the literary content provided by another ProQuest service.

Reports that H. W. Wilson will replace the AMICO Library of images with the Art Museum Image Gallery database. Report that the images are rights cleared so that students can download them for papers and so that teachers can use the images for lectures; Statement that each image provides a description, with some featuring related multimedia.

Asks for information from readers and comments on electronic library issues. Reference to the University of Virginia Press's Dolley Madison Digital Edition and the digitized collection of George Washington's papers; Quotation of Linda May, vice president for marketing at the Greenwood Publishing Group; Review of two full-text collections by Sage Publications, including Management & Organization Studies and Urban Studies & Planning.

Reports that EBSCO Publishing is marketing SocINDEX and SocINDEX with Full Text. Statement that the index features more than 1.3 million records with subject headings from a sociology-specific thesaurus; Report that the full text edition includes full text for 241 core journals, 72 priority journals, 545 books and monographs, and 6,711 conference papers.

Presents news related to libraries as of November 15, 1991. Discussion of a forthcoming white paper on information access policies by the Association of Research Libraries; Details of the Kreimer v. Morristown court case regarding a homeless man's complaints about the patron rules of the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township, New Jersey; Reinstatement of prison library workers in Maryland; How the opening of access to a collection of master photographic negatives of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Huntington Library in California forced Israelis to ease access to four duplicate sets of the negatives held in other locations.