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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.

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.

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 provides information on the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the first academic center in the U.S. devoted to African American poetry. Topics discussed include grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Center's collection of spoken word and performance videos, origin of the Center, and the hosting by Furious Flower of a quarterly literary journal, "The Fight & the Fiddle."

Reports that the international internship program of the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, took on its first trainees from China in July 1984. Details of the training program; Range of issues relevant to library management and automation that are covered by the training program.

Reports on a survey, sponsored by electronic publisher Versaware Inc., that shows that electronic texts, or e-books, are increasing in popularity at United States colleges. Reasons against using e-books; Factors students consider important in selecting e-books; Thoughts on multidimensional learning.

The article focuses on the research work being done by library and information science (LIS) students in the U.S. Topics discussed include student projects completed at New York City's Pratt Institute, related work at the University of Illinois (UI), and how to improve and encourage patron ease of using the library and its resources.

Offers descriptions of several marketing and advertising websites. Mention of http://advertising.utexas.edu/world/ as the finest marketing-advertising website; Other sites; Features of the sites; Evaluative ranking.

Discusses two methods of preserving the life of paperbacks, the prebinding process and the contact paper method, and a study performed by the author at Brigham Young University to test these durability methods.

Announces that the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., is offering a laboratory course in OCLC database use for the summer of 1979.

Focuses on the plans of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, to invest in a total library automation system. Automation venders who are the final contenders for the contract to provide the university with the automated library system; Required capabilities of the system; Person in-charge of the system project.

Reports on the purchase of four collections of books by Texas A&M University from John Crerar Library after latter's merger with the University of Chicago.

Discusses the differences and similarities of electronic journals and print journals. Study at the University of Michigan that examined faculty preferences in professional journals; Percentage of university faculty that prefer electronic journals; Benefits and drawbacks of electronic journals; Portability that made electronic journals popular; Differences that exist between the use of single articles and whole printed books; Older faculty members that preferred printed journals; Faculty that prefer to use printed journals as a back up to electronic versions.

Reports on the lecture series organized by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, the Lincoln City Libraries and the university's Division of Continuing Studies. Lecture theme; Participants; Outline of the series.

Indicates that Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Maryland will assume responsibility for the administration of the Peabody Institute Library following the signing of a formal agreement with the Enoch Pratt Free Library (EPFL). Background on the foundation of the Peabody Library in 1857; Difficulty facing EPFL.

Comments on strategies to address challenges of academic library materials budget in the U.S. Transfer of funds from the monographic to the periodical budget; Cancellation of duplicate subscriptions for the senior faculty; Identification of the priority needs of library users.

Reports that faculty at Stanford University are demanding for input on the planned Reagan library in the U.S. in 1987. Key issues of interest; Analysis of pertinent issues and relevant topics; Implications on libraries and library science.

Presents news briefs relating to libraries and librarians as of May 15, 2001. Success of online research service Questia.com; Attempts of employees of Akron-Summit County Public Library in Akron, Ohio, to form a union to increase salaries and create respectable work conditions; Approval of a construction bond by voters in Los Angeles, California to construct the nine-campus Los Angeles Community College District; Others.

Reports on the formation of a network between CLSI Inc. and eight state colleges of New Jersey, College of Medicine and Dentistry and the New Jersey Institute of Technology for a statewide automation program in the United States. Services provided through the network.

Reports on a compromise that may resolve a controversial proposal to build Nixon presidential library in the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Conditions laid down by Nixon representatives for future negotiations on the issue; Proposed size of the library.

Presents an update on the strike action at Brown University in Rhode Island, Providence, as of November 1976. Stalemate between the administration and the striking union over the issue of salaries; University's cancellation of the strikers' benefits; Strike union's claim that the university has broken off talks and has refused to go to binding arbitration.

This article provides information on how to recruit catalogers. Marion Reid of Louisiana State University Libraries said that the best attraction for prospective catalogers is for working catalogers to enjoy their jobs and show it. Penn State's Jim Neal discussed his institution's solution, which is well-managed joint assignments in reference and cataloging. Tom Leonhardt of the University of the Pacific Libraries emphasized the need for people skills, including the hiring of the best and brightest, even without experience. Jane Robinson of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in her keynote address for the educating session, called on dynamic teaching to slay the dreaded and dreadful cataloging course monster. Joe Matthews of Geac proposed a teaching workstation that assists student catalogers in understanding rules and MARC format coding options and validates the choices, an option for which technology is already available. Suzanne Hildenbrand of the SUNY-Buffalo library school theorized that cataloging is the woman's work of library school, while Sheila Intner of Simmons suggested teaching cataloging as decision-making with socratic dialogues.

This article provides information on the Simmons College Symposium on Recruiting, Educating and Training Cataloging Librarians: Solving the Problems. Robert Hayes of the University of California gave the keynote speech, describing cataloging as an essential key to all information services. He outlined solutions to problems he described as inherent in library education, including the need to redress the minimal involvement of working librarians in library education, random preparation for the professional program and the low visibility of library and information science professional schools on campus. Marion Reid of Louisiana State University Libraries said that the best attraction for prospective catalogers is for working catalogers to enjoy their jobs and show it. The Library of Congress' (LC) Henriette Avram announced that LC is going to share its in-house training materials with the rest of the library community. Much discussion followed the formal presentations. Janet Swan Hill from University of Colorado in Boulder led the recruiting session discussions and Karen Muller, executive director of the Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association, led the educating and training session discussion. When Muller brought the symposium to a close, the assembled speakers received a standing ovation.

Reports on the donation of the 1,067 volumes in Chinese by the People's Republic of China to the University of Texas at Austin. Topics covered.

Reports on an announcement made by the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in Chicago, Illinois regarding the extension of the deadline for financial aid applications of students. Forms of financial aid available; Contact information.

Reports on Access Innovations Inc.'s acquisition of the National Center for Information on Educational Media at the University of Southern California. Updated print and online indexes to be produced in 1984.