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The article reports on the publication of the white paper titled "Implementing and Managing Streaming Media Services in Academic Libraries" as announced by "Choice" in its June 30, 2021 statement.

The article focuses on American Library Association's (ALA) Joint Digital Content Working Group is tasked with advising ALA regarding opportunities within its purview, including the provision of equitable access to digital content for all. Topics include the improvements in content access the experience have occurred in the last decade, the paper notes that serious issues complicate acquisition of, and the COVID-19 has been a catalyst and increasing digital demand that promises to be long-term.

The article focuses on choice has published the sixth in a series of white papers and Supporting Scholarly Research: New Opportunities for Academic Libraries has researched and written during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides libraries with information to help support evolving research workflows.

The article informs that Choice, a publishing unit of Association of College and Research Libraries, will publish the fourth in a series of white papers on library marketing.

The article announces that the American Library Association (ALA) has released the white paper "Library Programs and New Americans" examining how public libraries can improve services to new American citizens.

The article discusses what are referred to white papers published in "Choice" magazine on the institutional repositories (IR) offered by academic libraries, with a particular on the "Choice" article "The Evolving Institutional Repository Landscape," by Judy Luther.

The article reports on the release of "Course Materials Adoption: A Faculty Survey and Outlook for the OER Landscape," which presents an overview of open educational resource programs.

The article focuses on American psychologist Abraham Maslow has published a seminal paper on the influence the physical surroundings. Topics include the participants has viewed photographs of people's faces and evaluated them based on different attributes, Maslow has wanted to test how people reacted to this content while has located in different physical environments, and Maslow has surmised that the condition of the surroundings has an impact on not only the emotions but judgment as well.

The article announces that the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is inviting veteran librarians and subject matter experts to submit papers for webinars and online courses to be added to its digital learning resources.

The article reports that American Library Association Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table has announced the winners of its David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award the University of Missouri School of Information Science and Learning Technologies team has who worked on paper.

The article reports that Library History Round Table (LHRT) has announced that in 2020 Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award winner is Julie Park, for her paper Infrastructure Story: The Los Angeles Central Library's Architectural History.

The article discusses the American Library Association's (ALA's) report titled "National Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment (NILPPA), Phase 1: A White Paper on the Dimensions of Library Programs and the Skills and Training for Library Program Professional."

The article offers statistics related to the event Open Access Week, including the prison sentence facing biologist Diego Gómez Hoyos for uploading a scientific paper to the internet, the adoption of open scholarship by the organization Human Genome Project, and the number of articles published in open access journals.

Several statistics about presidential libraries in the U.S. are presented, including the number of hours of recorded telephone conversations collected by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, the number of pages of historical records and papers at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, and the year the Presidential Library system started.

The article presents an overview of the American Library Association Archives, which has been housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1973 and is home to a vast collection of records, including historical files, audiovisual materials and personal papers. A discussion of instructions on how to make donations to the archives which can be found at the web site archives.library.illinois.edu/ala/donate-materials is presented.