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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Reports that Butterfields, the eBay-owned auction house, announced that it has withdrawn from auction a collection of personal papers belonging to slain Nation of Islam Leader Malcolm X. Removal of the archive from sale until a title issue can be resolved; How the collection contains unpublished artifacts, including correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, and diaries; Objections of librarians and historians to selling the collection.

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.

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.

The article reports that the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) library has acquired the literary archive of novelist Aldous Huxley. Shortly before her death in 2007, Huxley's wife, Laura, chose the UCLA Library to house the collection of literary materials and photographs by both Laura and Aldous.

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.

The article offers information on the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives (APRCA), formally founded by Paul McCarthy in 1965 at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Topics discussed include statement from Rachel Cohen, archivist and curator of rare books and maps at APRCA, on the growth of the archives, history of the regions, and the focus of the archives on acquiring materials from interior Alaska and the Aleutian Island chain.

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 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 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.

Focuses on the establishment of Open Archives, a multiple digital library collection, and how it is designed to develop an open architecture that supports simultaneous searching and retrieval of papers from disparate archives. Information on the arXiv e-Print archive at the Los Alamos National Laboratory; Networked Computer Science Technical Reports (NCSTRL); The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD); NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS).

Provides recommendations concerning the copyright of manuscripts. Importance of a comprehensive computer-index or English language manuscript material administered by the national or an international Register of Archives; Amendment of copyright laws when papers are brought abroad and for microfilm copies to be made and lodge; Two-stage conception of copyright.

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.

focuses on so-called old news sources, which open fresh windows on times gone by. Evaluation of tools that can assist in research projects, presenting them in a format that is more flexible and easier to work with than the original; Information on Accessible Archives, Inc. which offers primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals; Readex's Early American newspapers, Series 1; Search mode of HarpWeek, LLC; ProQuest Historical Newspapers; The Times Digital Archive; Other sources. INSET: OTHER SOURCES.

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 on a recognition given by Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts to archivist Howard Gotlieb. Move of the university to rename the special collections library after the archivist; Information on the archive he developed.

The article reports on the formation of the Diamonstein-Spielvolgel Institute for New York City History, Politics, and Community Activism announced by the New York-Historical Society Museum and Library. Topics discussed include major components planned for the Institute, materials included in the archive, and items that will be incorporated into the archive.

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.

Reports that the Gale Group is working with the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust and the University of Southampton, England, to publish Churchill's complete papers. Details of the archive.

The article offers information on Assistant Professor Maria Montalvo's U.S. History Seminar Class "Slavery and the Archive" at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Topics discussed include lesson learned by the students from the Montalvo's Class, historic newspaper collections that help students trace ideas over time, and comments from Librarian for African American Studies and U.S. History Erica Bruchko.

The author reports that EBSCO Publishing Inc. has become the exclusive distributor of the historical digital archive and genealogy database www.footnote.com. The database includes 55 million images that are not available other locations online. The author states that the images include historic documents such as historical newspapers, material relating from the Civil War and naturalization papers.

Reports that the British research funding organization, the Wellcome Trust, will require all papers from new research projects to be deposited within six months of publication in PubMed Central. Statement that the British National Institutes of Health have made its policy on openly archiving the research it funds voluntary.

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.

Reports on the study conducted by the U.S. National Archives and Records Service (NARS) for reassessing the reliability of microfilm as a preservation technique of archives. Procedure adopted by the NARS for the investigation; Problems associated with relying on microfilm as the sole preservation technique; Reasons for less reliance on microfilm than on paper for preservation of archives.

The article discusses how libraries and archive genealogy services are adapting to widespread DNA testing and challenge brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics include the hosting of virtual events by the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library (CHPL), Ohio, an excellent resource for genealogy experts when researching Hispanic genealogy from afar, and comments from Ayshea Khan, the Asian American Community Archivist at the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library in Texas.

The article features the art collection displayed at the offices of the nonprofit Burning Man Project in San Francisco, California. Topics discussed include the Burning Man gathering in 1986 in San Francisco that moved to Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 1990, 10 Principles of Burning Man, and the idea behind the Burning Man archive.

The article reports on the acquisition by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts of its first hip-hop collection with the archives of dance impresario Michael Holman. Topics covered include the composition of the archive, the career of Holman in the hip-hop world, and how the collection came about.

The article focuses on blogs and other digital content, as well as using blogging software as a tool for other proposes. Particular attention is paid to the blogs of people in the public sphere. The article suggests that historians of these people would have to take their digital ephemera into account, and suggests that we still don't quite have the tools or the trained staff to do this sort of thing well.

The article discusses the archival initiatives of public and academic libraries, archives and other cultural institutions aimed at preserving physical and digital records, oral histories, data and often critical metadata relating to civic unrest and natural disasters. Topics discussed include Narrating Hurricane Katrina Through Oral History launched in fall 2005, the Documenting Ferguson initiative in 2014 and the California Listens project of the California State University and StoryCenter.

John Thorn, author of Total Baseball, is claiming to have found a 1791 document in the Berkshire Athenaeum Library, the public library of Pittsfield, MA, referring to the game 48 years before Abner Doubleday supposedly invented it. However, the Athenaeum's Kathleen Reilly, Ann Maria Harris, and other librarians and local historians always knew the document was there and what it contained, making Thorn's claim somewhat dubious. The document is a bylaw to prevent damage to new meeting house windows by not permitting" baseball" and other games to be played within 80 yards of the building. Reilly told LJ that Thorn apparently came across a reference to the document on the Internet and contacted former major league star and local resident Jim Bouton, who allegedly contacted Pittsfield authorities inquiring about the document.

The article reviews the ProQuest's LGBT Magazine Archive Collection 1, which provides access to a selection of LGBT magazine and serial titles.

Reports that the New York Public Library has purchased the personal archive of writer Jack Kerouac. Details of the collection, including journals with materials used in 'On the Road,' 'The Town and the City,' and other works; The hand-written cards Kerouac used to play a fantasy baseball game; Background on acquiring the archive; Role of John Sampas, executor of the author's estate.

The article reviews the digital collection "China: Trade, Politics, Culture, 1793–1980" produced by Adam Matthew, a SAGE company, located at amdigital.co.uk.