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The article reports that the Chicago Public Library in Illinois launched the Abbott-Sengstacke Family Papers, an archive about the history of the "Chicago Defender" African-American newspaper. The archive is composed of personal correspondence Robert S. Abbott, founder of the newspaper, business records, photographs and rare issues of the newspaper. It was processed and cataloged by a team of doctoral students from the University of Chicago.

Provides information on several public libraries and art facilities in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Public Library; Newberry Library; Polish Museum of America Library; Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.

Mentions collections of book-related items in the United States. Memorabilia from Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and Edgar Rice Burroughs in storage in the library's meeting room in Oak Park, Illinois; Acquisition of papers of philosopher Eric Hoffer by Stanford University's Hoover Institution in California.

Describes a program at Chicago's Newberry Library which targeted the family. Theme being Fun with Maps; Creation by children of pictorial drawings of their neighborhoods; Comments by exhibit curator James Akerman; Library exhibit called `Paper Trails: Maps, Highways, and American Journeys in the Twentieth Century,' running through December 14, 1996; Highlights.