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To-do lists that don't get done. Perfect planners that go untouched for days or months at a time. Important information jotted on scraps of paper and promptly misplaced. Notes-to-self that [...]

Saving the Time of the Library User Through Subject Access Innovation Papers in Honor of Pauline Atherton Cochrane. Ed. William J. Wheeler. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Graduate School of [...]

Commemorating the Past, Celebrating the Present, Creating the Future: Papers in Observance of the 50th Anniversary of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services.Ed. Pamela Bluh. Chicago: ALA/ALCTS, 2007. [...]

Choice announced in a June 30 statement the publication of the eighth in a series of white papers designed to educate on topics of importance to the academic library community. [...]

Digital Highlights As librarians, we know that public libraries provide a wealth of benefits to members of their communities, some more tangible than other. A recent working paper titled 'The [...]

The American Library Association's (ALA) Joint Digital Content Working Group is tasked with advising ALA regarding opportunities and issues within its purview, including the provision of equitable access to digital [...]

Choice has released 'Course Materials Adoption: A Faculty Survey and Outlook for the OER [open educational resource] Landscape,' the third in a series of white papers on topics of importance [...]

It's no secret that librarians like books. For decades, those pages sandwiched between rectangles of cardboard have been the primary reason librarians sought and secured employment. As methods of communication [...]

Choice has published the sixth in a series of white papers. 'Supporting Scholarly Research: Current and New Opportunities for Academic Libraries' was researched and written during the COVID-19 pandemic and [...]

In search of a cohesive tool for managing license agreements, the University of Florida Libraries has devised an in-house project. This paper tracks development of the project from its' theoretical [...]

Choice magazine has published the first in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. This first paper, 'The [...]

Incomplete Citations in Undergraduate Term Papers from Four Campuses In scholarship, footnotes, endnotes, or bibliographies to accompany a scholarly paper and to credit the ideas' source are an accepted method [...]

Choice, a publishing unit of ACRL, will publish the fourth in a series of white papers on topics important to the academic library community. 'Implementing Marketing Plans in the Academic [...]

ALA has released a white paper, 'Library Programs and New Americans,' exploring how US public libraries can improve their services to new Americans. Through the New Americans Library Project, ALA [...]

Planning and Constructing Book & Paper Conservation Laboratories. Edited by Jennifer Hain Teper and Eric Alstrom. Chicago: American Library Association, 2012. 230 p. $67.95 softcover (ISBN: 978-0-83898601-1). Teper and Alstrom [...]

Fujitsu is claiming to have created the first color e-paper that has the flexibility of pulp paper and that maintains its color even when the power to the paper is turned off. The e-paper technology is used in the libraries and the systems, services and devices used by libraries and library users apart from advertisers.

Congress is getting sharply conflicting opinions on the value of Martin Luther King Jr.'s post-1960 papers, and Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), who persuaded President Clinton to include $20 million [...]

The personal papers and notebooks of San Francisco dock-worker-philosopher Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) were acquired by Stanford University's Hoover Institution in January. Hoffer's 1951 book The True Believer, a provocative analysis [...]

Legislation authorizing the Library of Congress to purchase Martin Luther King Jr.'s private papers was stalled shortly before Congress adjourned for the year due to growing concerns over cost, intellectual-property [...]

A man accused of stealing historical documents from the University of Arizona/Tucson Library and the Arizona Historical Society turned himself in to the FBI May 30 and will be arraigned [...]

A February 6 fire destroyed part of a building at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee, that housed the school's library, some classrooms and laboratories, and most administrative offices. Although the [...]

Basic, practical information written in layman's terms for staff not trained in conservation is now available in Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual. Although the book is the [...]

A major collection of Ernest Hemingway material, including original manuscripts, letters, photos, recordings, and home movies, has been donated to the Library of Congress by Hemingway's friend and biographer A. [...]

29 January 2015 -- OCLC and the Library of Congress have jointly released a white paper that compares and contrasts the compatible linked data initiatives at both institutions. The paper, [...]

New York Public Library's (NYPL) Manuscripts and Archives Division has acquired more than 300 boxes of material belonging to influential psychologist and author Timothy Leary, whose advocacy of the use [...]

'Achieving Racial and Ethnic Diversity among Academic and Research Librarians: The Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of Librarians of Color,' a white paper commissioned by ALA's Association of College and Research [...]

The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources: To Preserve and Protect: Papers from the Library of Congress Symposium. Ed. By Andrea T. Merrill. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Information Pr., 2003. xx, 237p. [...]

Coping With Information Illiteracy: Bibliographic Instruction for the Information Age: Papers Presented at the Seventeenth National LOEX Library Instruction Conference held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 4-5, 1989 Optical and [...]

The board of the Cook Memorial Public Library District formally censured its Vice President Jack Martin September 16 for 'censoring the library's holdings' without proper authority and for about a [...]

Reaching and Teaching Diverse Library Groups: Papers Presented at the Sixteenth National LOFX Library Instruction Conference held at Bowling Green State University, May 5-6, 1988. Ed. by Theresa B. Mensching. [...]

New York, September 7, 2011 -- EasyBib has been working with Google products for over a year now, making the writing process easier for students. Now, in a brand new [...]

The papers of Mariana Wright Chapman, president of the New York State Suffrage Association in the 1890s, have been donated to Swarthmore (Pa.) College by Chapman's granddaughter, Anne Chapman Booth, [...]

The University of California at Berkeley announced January 2 that its Bancroft Library will be receiving more than 450 boxes of papers spanning the 30-year public service career of Robert [...]

Emory University in Atlanta has acquired the papers of author Salman Rushdie. To be housed at Emory's Woodruff Library, the collection contains Rushdie's correspondence, notes, photographs, and manuscripts, including those [...]

ALA's LRRT is seeking papers to be presented at one of two research forums that will be held during the ALA Annual Conference, June 21-27, in Washington, D.C. The deadline [...]

Papers that belonged to Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998), cofounder of the Black Panther Party, have been donated to Denver Public Library's Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library. An unidentified woman found the [...]

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, has donated his papers to the University Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The [...]

One of the most disturbing things I've heard all year came out of Garrison Keillor's mouth during an interview (see p. 38) I taped while chasing him down the street [...]

Approximately 1,000 boxes of papers, correspondence, audio- and videotapes, clippings, and memorabilia from former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) are now housed in Texas A&M University's Cushing Memorial Library and [...]

Former President Bill Clinton will soon be releasing his presidential papers dealing with some of the confidential advice he received in the White House. His decision comes a full year [...]

Private papers and personal effects covering two decades of the life of slain civil-rights leader Malcolm X were placed on long-term deposit January 7 at New York Public Library's Schomburg [...]

Two missing volumes of a 1920s sports newspaper that covered the 1919 Chicago White Sox gambling scandal were returned to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library--one day after their [...]

Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, and the unpublished and published writings of USA Today founder Allen H. Neuharth are now housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The donated materials [...]

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore is sending conflicting messages about the papers he is holding, claims the lawyer representing the state library in mediation to settle the continuing dispute over [...]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah State University have resolved their dispute over a collection of papers donated to the university's Merrill Library by the late [...]

In EScholarship: A LITA Guide, editor Debra Shapiro and her team of experts explore viable e-publishing alternatives that are beginning to replace traditional scholarly communication structures. Included among the essayists [...]

Responding to critics who fear that the transfer of former President Nixon's materials from the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington to his library in Yorba Linda, California (AL, [...]

Former President Bill Clinton has said he wants to make 100,000 domestic-policy records available to researchers when his presidential library opens in Little Rock November 18, but the decision is [...]