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Presents a visual diagram of how the important documents of the United States are stored and sealed to preserve them.

Discusses various aspects related to presidential papers in the U.S. and how former President Richard Nixon might benefit from it. Lawsuit filed by Nixon against the U.S. government in which he demanded that it pay him for the estimated 42 million pages of Nixon presidential papers it holds at the National Archives; Market value of Nixon's papers; Discussion on the legal status of presidential papers throughout the ages; Reasons why Nixon is exempt from the clause that all presidential papers, starting with Ronald Reagan, are the property of the government in the first place; Significance of the Watergate scandal in the control exercised by Nixon over his presidential papers and the Watergate tapes.

The article discusses U.S. 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whose health care task force papers from while she was First Lady during the presidency of her husband remain unavailable to the public. According to the response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the group Judicial Watch, the U.S. National Archives identified 3,022,030 still unreleased health care documents at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Report that United States President George Bush has decided his presidential papers should go to a Texas university, but has not yet decided which one.

The article provides information on research papers and archives acquired by U.S. academic libraries. The Columbia University Libraries acquired the papers of former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins and made public the manuscripts for research in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Norton Strange Townsend Family papers which were acquired by the William L. Clements Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan contain the political, educational and social activities of the seven generations related to Norton Strange Townsend. The E.H. Duckworth Photographic Archive contains photographs documenting Nigerian life before independence.

Features the online course on paper preservation conducted by the Northeast Document Conservation Center in North Andover, Massachusetts. Provision of introductory lessons linked to a glossary and a bibliography; Outline of lessons; Availability of lesson texts at the center's Web site.

Reports the recommendations to consider the academic value of original documents in the United States. Tension between providing access and preserving the original; Effect of deterioration patterns of various media on research value; Development of a framework to assist institutions with creating appropriate retention policies.

Reports that the Georgia Department of Archives and History has mounted and linked a number of preservation and disaster preparedness documents on its Web site. Uniform resource locator; Publication of the 1999 edition of the book `The Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages'; Order information for copies of the report.

Announces the arrival of the papers of H.L. Mencken at the Baker Memorial Library of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The condition of the archival material; The worries of archivist Philip Cronenwett; What was included; What will be available to scholars; Details.

Boxes of records from the Tommy G. Thompson administration ear-marked for the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison were destroyed instead. A spokesman for the state Department of Administration confirmed that the records which were stored at a state warehouse were inadvertently put on the wrong truck and sent to a Green Bay, Wisconsin paper mill where the documents were turned into a pulp. The records that were destroyed represented Thompson's gubernatorial career from January 1, 1987 through December 31, 2001. Preliminary investigation determined that about 100 of the boxes came from the governor's office and the rest originated from other undetermined state agencies according to a spokesman.

The article presents information on the Health & Medicine section of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Profiles in Science Web site which has added the papers of American surgeon Clarence Dennis.

The article focuses on the addition of the papers of African-American surgeon Chares R. Drew to the Health and Medicine section of the U.S. National Library of Medicine Profiles in Science® website.

Reports Small Town Papers, a web site that provides Internet access to a searchable image archive of printed newspapers from small towns across the United States.

Focuses on the search for documents associated with former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln initiated by the staff at the Papers of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois. Goal of the project.

Reports on the availability of Malcolm X documents at the New York Public Library in New York City. Access of researchers to the papers; Details on the collection; Historical importance of the materials.

Examines company documents of the tobacco industry in the United States. Importance of litigation on the tobacco issue; Significance of the case filed by the state of Mississippi against the industry; Web sites featuring company documents.

Reports that the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, owns a collection of papers from the Blow family, a prominent family in Southside, Virginia. Documentation of mercantile and plantation life from 1750 through 1900; Original sketches from the Blow Family Papers.

Reports that the papers of Adele Goodman Clark, a prominent figure in the Richmond and Virginia political and arts communities, have been made available for research by the Cabell Library's Special Collections and Archives at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. Includes Clark's personal papers, as well as records of organizations with which Clark was actively associated during her lifetime.

Focuses on the acquisition of the papers of Benjamin Hooks, by the McWherter Library of the University of Memphis in Tennessee. Background information on Hooks.

Reports that the papers of George Wilkins Kendall, a writer, former war correspondent and rancher, are available for research at the Special Collections Division of the University of Texas at Arlington. Includes correspondence, photographs, books and artifacts; Kendall's correspondence with the `New Orleans Picayune' which he co-founded with news from the front lines of Mexican War.

Reports that the personal papers and recordings of Mark Hindsley, the second conductor of the University of Illinois' Concert Band, have been acquired by the John Philip Sousa American Band Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Includes scrapbooks, recordings, photographs and correspondence documenting Hindsley's career and the history of American bands over a 60-year period.

Reports on the acquisition of the papers of Peter Ackroyd (a chronicler of British social and intellectual life) by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Reports on the Woodruff Library of Emory University's acquisition of the papers of Ted Hughes, poet laureate of England.

The $21 million Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, which opened on 20 July, takes visitors on a trip down memory lane. The effort made here to reshape popular memory is sweeping, relentless, and sophisticated. Calling this a "library" is misleading; the place has no books or documents. Officials promise to open a basement archive in 1991 that will contain primarily pre- and postpresidential papers. If the library is weak on archives, it is strong on video, visitors get to see former U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1952 "Checkers" speech, in which the vice-presidential candidate labored to exonerate himself of charges of corruption with maudlin references to his dog Checkers.

Reports that the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign has acquired the last major portion of H.G. Wells material. Composition of the acquisition.

This section offers news briefs related to archive management. The National Endownment for the Humanies has given the Indiana State Library a 293,000 U.S. dollar grant to support the digitization of historic Indiana newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. Iowa State University has processed the papers of botany professor Lois Hattery Tiffany who specialized on mycology. The Wisconsin Veterans Museum has mounted an exhibit that highlights the state's several Civil War training camps.

Focuses on the issues concerning the access of presidential papers in the U.S. Insight into the thinking of politicians; Right to private property; Ways to find presidential documents.

Presents information on a collection of papers held by the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco, California about the experiences of Russian immigrants during the revolution in 1917. Accounts of chemist Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff and writer Antonia Von Arnold on life as immigrants in the United States; Significance of the collection.

Highlights the personal papers of the Kennedy family's patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy. Difficulty of reconciling the private and the public side of Kennedy; Personal history of the Kennedy patriarch; Gaps in the correspondence; Meetings with German government officials prior to the outbreak of World War II; Relations with the press.

The article presents a profile of inventor Thomas Edison. The author reports on the discovery of papers, documented by Edison, which reveal the details of his innate genius. Featured documents include Edison's discovery of the phonograph, the motion-picture camera, and the incandescent light bulb. Edison was also known for his talent of motivating people, his clever business sense, and his facility for mixing and matching concepts.

Discusses the preservation of documents in the archives of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Recommendation that paper of a better quality be used by the federal government and for research into how the microenvironment within a container can best be controlled to ensure longer document life; Treatment of electronic storage techniques such as optical disks; Belief that if the documents are more accessible they will be used more frequently.

The article describes the website, located at loc.gov/collections/george-brinton-mcclellan-papers, which provides access to digitized copies of the papers of U.S. General George B. McClellan, a general in the Union army in the U.S. Civil War.

Focuses on the differences between preserving original historical materials and creating digital archives. Scientific and technical preservation research done by the Preservation Directorate at the United States Library of Congress; Establishment of the National Digital Library Program to create electronic reproductions of primary source materials on American history and culture; Foundation of the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts, to preserve deteriorating paper resources.

Reports on the controversy caused by the Washington, D.C.-based Library of Congress' release of the personal papers donated by the late United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Contents of the papers; Publication of articles about Thurgood's papers by `The Washington Post'; Chief Justice William Rehnquist's criticism of librarian James H. Billington; Reactions of justices, columnists and Marshall's former clerks. INSET: Behind the scenes..

The article reports on the developments of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It has presented the conversion of the inventories of two congressional collections to hypertext mark-up language. The Otto Krueger Papers and the Quentin Burdick Papers. Krueger is a Republican who represented the state in the House of Representatives from 1953-1959.

Storing customer records in an unlocked file cabinet in a public restroom is not a wise legal or public relations move. But that is where Walgreens in Creve Coeur, Missouri, was reportedly storing hundreds of prescription records more than a decade old. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, at least one customer informed managers about the possible privacy violation after noticing the worn four-drawer file cabinet in the women's restroom. The unlocked cabinet sat beneath the paper towel dispenser, between the sink and a full-length, padlocked locker. Allowing prescriptions to be accessible by the general public is a violation of federal privacy laws. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, any entity covered by the law must adopt safeguard measures to keep patient information confidential and protected from individuals who have no reason to access it. Kevin Kinkade, executive director for the Missouri Board of Pharmacy, told the Post-Dispatch that the state of Missouri requires pharmacies to maintain records for five years in a way that protect patient privacy. Physical paper records can be transferred onto microfilm, microfiche, CD, or other electronic format after three years, and after five years, prescription records can be destroyed.

Reports on the sale of personal papers owned by famed criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow. Materials included at the lawyer's collection; Significance of the papers on Darrow's legacy.

Provides information on the projects submitted by the United States National Endowment for the Humanities that will share in a White House initiative to `Save America's Treasures.' Antislavery Pamphlet Collection at Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York; Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Papers at Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts; Dutch Colonial Manuscripts at New York State Archives, Albany.

The U.S. is in danger of losing much of its past through deterioration of archival documents and through loss of historic sites. But historians now have a variety of technologies from which to choose to preserve America's cultural heritage for future generations. West Germany and France have both been using more advanced technologies for preservation and for a longer time than has the U.S. The U.S. is also in danger of losing some 530 million pieces of paper that are literally falling apart in the National Archives in Washington D.C.

Presents information on the acquisition of family papers formerly owned by Nathaniel Hawthorne's family by Stanford University, Stanford, California. Detailed information on the collection; Age of the collection; Comments from Jay Fliegelman, professor of English.

The article reports that in 2013 Kalpana Shankar and Kristin Eschenfelder were winners of the Association for Information Science & Technology History Fund's Research Award and that Xiaohu Zhu was the winner of the fund's Best Paper Award.

The article reports that documents on Southern civilians collected by the United States War Department in 1891-1892 are digitized and available online at footnote.com. The "Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms" include documents such as contracts, telegrams and correspondence, and employee lists.

The article considers the impact of the death of a legislator on the career of his or her staff members in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Clerk Kristin Garesche comments on a rule that members should not answer the telephones using the name of the deceased legislator. It cites that a succeeding lawmaker is not required to keep the staff of his or her predecessor and the tendency of some staffers to resign. Garesche added that the job of a staff shifts to archiving all papers after a member dies.

The article reports that the Archives section of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio has received a collection of papers relating to the family of Alford Carleton and his services as a missionary, president of Aleppo College, as an ecumenical force in the merger of the Evangelical and Reformed Churches, and as executive vice president of the Board of World Ministries of the United Church of Christ. It also documented his global perspectives on international relations.

The article reports on the partnership of Readex Corp. with Dartmount College Library to digitize its holdings of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set and American State Papers. The list of the content of a Web-based family of historical collections are presented as well as the features of the digital editions.

The article focuses on the collection received by the Library/Archives from U.S. Congressman Doug Bereuter. The collection consists of papers that are related to the life, political career, and public service of Bereuter from the 1970s to 2004. However, its access is still restricted until January 1, 2015.

The article reports on the new course set by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for funding the national archival system and adopted a new strategic plan calling for leadership in public policy, distribution of the most important traditional documents in U.S. history, and creating a national network for state and local documentary preservation and use, as of August 2004. The commission also recommended to the archivist of the U.S. grants for projects in 27 states and District of Columbia. The recommendations included funding for documentary editing projects that focus on the papers and records of Americans including Frederick Douglass and Thomas Edison. The commission funded two electronic records projects to create records management systems for Maine state agencies and archival collections at Tufts and Yale universities. Funding for the Maine GeoArchives project supports collaboration among the state archives and other state agencies that are creating the Maine Library of Geographic Information to develop GeoArchives. The Tuft grant funds testing the capabilities of the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture software to serve as an electronic records preservation system at the Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University and the Manuscripts and Archives section of the Yale University Library.

Presents memories of the late President Ronald Reagan. Evidence among his papers and letters that the President worked all the time and was knowledgeable about every aspect of the presidency; Thousands of handwritten documents and letters indicating that he analyzed everything from Africa to missile defense to welfare; Combination of an easygoing demeanor and great intelligence.

This article highlights "School for Scanning: Building Good Digital Collections," a three-day conference on the latest information about and best practices for, converting paper-based collections into digital assets. The conference is initiated by the Northeast Document Conservation Center and will be held on June 2 to 4, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois.

Reports several documents relating to the U.S. Navy. Provision of the Congressional Research Service; Publication of reports to Maxwell Papers; Theme of the two publications from RAND.