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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.

Reports that retired congressman Paul McHale, Pennsylvania, donated his papers to Muhlenberg College Library, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Nature of the documents; Papers not given to McHale's alma mater, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; McHale's friendship with Muhlenberg president Arthur Taylor.

Reports on a lawsuit filed by Coretta Scott King against Boston University for the return of the papers of the late Martin Luther King Jr. King's deposit of his papers at the university in 1968; Claim that the papers belong to King's estate, not the university; Proposal that the papers be kept at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia.

Focuses on the discovery of the papers of historian Leon Trotsky and his son Lev Sedov at the Hoover Institution Archives in Stanford, California. Availability of the papers in microfilm.

Reports that Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Co. has agreed to use Wei T'o Associates Inc. preservation technology. Outlook for the use of the technology to preserve books, documents, maps, works of art, and other paper-based materials; Use of nonflammable materials by the system which fill paper with a nontoxic magnesium carbonate complex to neutralize acids and prevent further acid development; Use of the Wei T'o process to preserve documents such as the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution; Treatment of books by the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada with the system.

Reports on the addition of a collection of materials on author Ernest Hemingway to the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library. Description of the collections, gathered by Maurice Speiser, Hemingway's attorney; Other important collections housed at the Thomas Cooper Library.

Reports that mystery writer James Ellroy has donated his personal archives to the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library, Columbia. His reason for donating the items; Other items contained in the archives.

Features the W.B. Yeats Microfilmed Manuscript Collection at the State University of New York at Stony Brooks. Size of the collection; Accessibility of the collection.

The article reports that the 17 year-old private Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California has become the public Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum under the federal presidential system. The new museum will combine U.S. President Richard Nixon's private papers with the collection of Nixon's papers from the National Archives.

Reports that the Research Libraries Group (RLG) has been given a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to microfilm and release 25 endangered archival collections of importance in American historical research. Inclusion of the Eli Whitney papers in the project; The importance of the Jewish labor Committee Relief and Rescue series; Discussion of the inclusion of the Cecil B. DeMille collection; Commitment of participants in the project to making the microfilm of these and other materials available through interlibrary loan or duplication.

Focuses on an online collection of sheet music dating from the late 1890s to the Big Band Era of the 1930s and 1940s posted by Mississippi State University. The collection, which was donated by Charles H. Templeton; Where the paper archive is located; Collaborators on the effort.

Relates that a deal is being worked on regarding the ultimate transfer of the Nixon Library at Yorba Linda, California, to the National Archives. What the deal with Washington includes, such as the payment of $26 million to the estate for Nixon's papers; Comment of Nixon Library spokespeople that $8 million of the fund would be used to construct a building to house the collection; Significance of the deal.