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Reports on the release of a number of former President Ronald Reagan's records from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Records which remain off-limits to historians and the public because of an executive order by the administration of George W. Bush, which grants presidents the right to review papers before release; Mention of the Freedom of Information Act, which forbids federal records from being kept private for longer than 12 years.

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.

Informs that the University of California at San Francisco can continue to display on the World Wide Web papers stolen from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. The June 1995 ruling by the California Supreme Court; The papers' revelation that tobacco companies concealed the addictiveness of nicotine from the public for years; How the university obtained the papers; Number of users accessing the papers on the Web site; Details.

Los Angeles, California's Loyola Marymount University has received $20 million for a new library from two foundations established by local real estate developer and philanthropist William Hannon. The donation is the lead gift for the new William Hannon Library, a project estimated at $44 million. The library will include collaborative study spaces with Internet access, a 24-hour study room, and other special areas designated for group use of music and video materials. Officials said nearly all paper-based resources will be housed in the automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) unit, along with selected archival materials and a wide range of media formats. Hannon's foundation also will give Santa Clara University (SCU), located in Silicon Valley, $4 million for its new library.

Reports on the selection of sites for U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon presidential libraries. Housing of Reagan's presidential papers near Ventura, California; Construction of Nixon's presidential library in Yorba Linda.