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Reports that the Fales Library of New York University has launched a virtual exhibit of paper book bindings of the World Wide Web. What the exhibit includes; Address of the site.

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.

Private papers and personal effects covering two decades of the life of slain civil-rights leader Malcolm X were placed on long-term deposit at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City and will be available to researchers as early as May 19, 2004, which would have marked Malcolm X's 79th birthday. Two of Malcolm X's daughters, Ilyasah and Malaak Shabazz, turned over to the library for a 75-year period two large crates of hundreds of pages of materials--including letters, speeches, journals, and photographs--that had been the subject of an ownership dispute. Among the most significant items are diaries in which Malcolm X documented his trips to Africa and the Middle East, made soon after he broke with the Nation of Islam in 1964. The documents, which have yet to be assessed by scholars, were stored for years at the home of Malcolm's late wife, Betty Shabazz, in Mount Vernon, New York, and had been removed after her death in 1997. The Schomburg Center, located on Malcolm X Boulevard, is just a few blocks from the mosque where Malcolm X once preached.

Reports on the acquisition of the personal papers of James E. Allen by the New York State Library.

The article reports that the New York Public Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division received a major archive of papers relating to the early gay-rights movement in the U.S. The Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs consist of letters, photographs, handbills, manuscripts, publications, and ephemera accumulated over nearly 50 years by Gittings and her life partner, Lahusen. Information on the achievements of Gittings and Lahusen is presented.

Mentions library acquisitions in the United States of archival materials. Acquisition of author Kurt Vonnegut's papers by the Indiana University/Bloomington's Lilly Library; Purchase of the `Paris Review' archives by Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.

The article discusses the twenty-second Ezra Jack Keats bookmaking competition in New York City. The contest is sponsored by the city's Department of Education and the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. It cites that, each year, the students from grades three to twelve participate in a competition that asks them to combine visual arts and creative writing to author and illustrate their own picture books.

Presents several library news briefs as of August, 2000. Request of the Minneapolis Public Library to the city council for a referendum to raise money for a downtown library; Budget deal in New York City which awards money to libraries; Baltimore County Council's appropriating of funds to school-library funds. INSET: RESULTS.

Reports on the acquisition of the papers of Y.C. James Yen by the Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Yen's archives of the organization he founded; International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR); Contents of the collection; Documentation of seven decades of work by the IIRR; Yen's personal papers.

Reports on novelist E.L. Doctorow's donation of all his papers, including manuscripts, drafts, galleys, screenplays, memorabilia, notes and correspondence, to the New York University's Fales Library. Naming of the collection as the E.L. Doctorow Papers.

Highlights useful resources in major areas of library/information activity. Donation of old postcards to the New York Public Library by Marshall and Prudence Montgomery; Acquisition of Ernest Hemingway's letters to his close friend Eric Edward Dorman-Smith by the Stanford University LIbraries; Donation of jazz bandleader Cab Calloway's papers and memorabilia to the Coppin State College's Cab Calloway Jazz Institute.

The article discusses the highlights of the symposium, "Beyond the Desk," hosted by the Columbia University Libraries Reference Coordinating Committee held on March 14, 2008 at the Uris Hall of the Columbia Business School in New York City. The keynote address was delivered by Joe Janes, associate professor and association dean for academics at the University of Washington's Information School. Three papers of different topics were also featured at the symposium.

Discusses the symposium 'Libraries and the Search for Academic Excellence,' co-sponsored by the Columbia University School of Library Service and the University of Colorado. Debate on how libraries can become a more integral part of the education process in the United States and 'close the gap' between the classroom and the library; Topics of the 12 papers presented during the symposium.

States that the old-fashioned kind of book that is printed on paper was the main topic at the May 2002 Book Expo America held in New York City. Description of the conference that featured booksellers, publishers, and authors such as Walter Mosley; Consumer spending on books; Indication that adult fiction writers are entering the market of children's books; Mention of prepublication excitement surrounding Jeffrey Eugenides and his historical novel about a hermaphrodite, 'Middlesex.'

The article discusses the withdrawal of a subpoena by federal prosecutors in New York to the American Civil Liberties Union to retrieve all copies of a classified document. The prosecutors grounded their action on changed circumstances, although a transcript of a closed hearing suggested that the government was going to lose the case. The document subject of the subpoena was not confidential and collected a number of policies concerning photographs of enemy prisoners of war.

Reports that the New York University has received a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to assist in preserving and cataloging a collection of papers and photographs of Harold Acton and family. Background on the collection.

Reports that the New York Public Library's Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Laboratory has received a grant to create multimedia resources for training in the conservation of endangered paper manuscripts.

Reports that Columbia University Libraries and Academic Information Systems will conduct a seven-month study to determine the most acceptable techniques for preservation of and access to oversize color maps. Digital scanning of three different formats of the same five brittle maps; Production of full-size paper printouts from the digital images.

An interview with New York City public librarian Zachary Loeb is presented. He discusses his experience volunteering at The Occupy Wall Street Library (OWSL), also referred to as The People's Library, in the Occupy Wall Street movement's camp in New York City in 2011. Loeb describes the check-out system at the OWSL, the weather-related challenges facing the movement, and the role that public librarians have played in the OWSL.

The article offers news briefs on issues concerning free speech in New York City. Jewish New York University historian Tony Judt was blocked from speaking at the Polish consulate in October by two major American Jewish organizations, saying he was too critical of Israel and American Jewry. Protesters were able to shut down a speech by Jim Gilchrist, head of the Minuteman Project, an anti-immigration group, at Columbia University.

Reports on the appointment of Vartan Gregorian as vice chairman of the board of trustees for the New York Public Library. Primary duties of Gregorian as vice chairman; Contributions made by Gregorian to the library.

Offers news briefs related to libraries in the United States as of February 1, 2001. Scripts belonging to producer Max Liebman, which will go to the Library of Congress; Delivery of soft dirt which was needed for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Anne Arundel County Public Library in Maryland; Filming for the television program 'The Sopranos' which took place at the Baruch College library in New York.

Presents the personal experiences of librarians during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City. 'Loss and Recovery: Librarians Bear Witness to September 11, 2001,' a video documentary that records oral histories of the disaster; Statement from Christine Arthur, of Thomson Financial, one block from the World Trade Center; Thoughts of Cybele Merrick, at the Vera Institute of Justice, two blocks from the World Trade Center; Suzanne Borenstein, of Thacher Proffitt and Wood, World Trade Center, tower two; Other statements.

Presents library-related news briefs as of June 9, 2001. Appropriation of emergency funds to allow public libraries in Warren, Michigan to remain open; Recovery of rare books and maps stolen from the Bangor, Maine Public Library; Decision of New York's Pierpont Morgan Library to return items in its collection to the city library in Nuremberg, Germany after establishing that they were stolen at the end of World War II; Return of a stolen stained-glass window to a library in Quincy, Massachusetts; Others.

Presents library-related news briefs as of June, 2001. How the library at the University of Hawaii/Manoa remained open during strikes that shut down the state's public education system; Approval of a contract that gives raises to New York librarians; Statement that groundbreaking took place for the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Outcome of a copyright suit involving the heirs of 'Little House on the Prairie' author Laura Ingalls Wilder and a Missouri library; Others.

Informs about library collections. Archive on dancer Rudolf Nureyev donated to the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Ernest Hemingway material donated to the Library of Congress by A.E. Hotchner; Letters of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski acquired by the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor's Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library.

Discusses poetry readings. The program, Poetry in the Branches, at the New York Public Library; Getting and keeping an audience; Press releases; Flyers; Serving refreshments; Hosting and presenting the program; Using the introduction time to establish a relationship with the audience; Introducing the poet.

Reports that Frank Borzellieri, a member of the Queens, New York school board, has stated that he wants to identify and remove `anti-American' books from the borough's school libraries.

Focuses on the conferences attended by New York-based Queens Borough Public Library director Constance Cooke in 1988.

Reports on the dedication of the Goldsmith-Perry Preservation Laboratory in the cellar of the New York Public Library (NYPL) in honor of author Barbara Goldsmith and her husband, filmmaker Frank Perry. Laboratory's preservation of books, newspapers and maps on microfilm; Similar endowments to be awarded to libraries by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities.

The article features the story of Meredith Butler, the former dean of library faculty and director at the State University of New York (SUNY) Albany libraries. Butler recalls that she used to go to the public library in East Liverpool in Ohio when she was still a child. She first worked as a German language bibliographer at the Syracuse University in New York. In 1981, she took the job of assistant director for the libraries at the SUNY Albany and then worked for its Division of Academic affairs, a few years later. Then, the position of the dean and library director of the University of Albany libraries became available, Butler landed the job and worked in that capacity from 1989 until 2005.

Reports on the impact to United States libraries of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. Details of an interrupted visit by U.S. President George W. Bush to Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida to read to children; Libraries and archive storage facilities which were affected by the attacks, including those located in both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; Details on how people may use libraries to aid the victims of the attack.

Focuses on the development of WorldlinQ, a system designed to provide multilingual Internet site delivery, for the Queens Borough (New York) Public Library. Mention of a grant provided by AT&T; Obstacles, including translation to East Asian Character Code; Goals of the system, including bringing order and librarianship to the Internet.

The article reports that Judge Robert Patterson has ceased publication of an unofficial encyclopedic companion to the popular Harry Potter book series in a copyright case author J. K. Rowling argued would imperil other writers in New York City, New York. Judge Patterson in U.S. District Court in Manhattan wrote in his view that an independent book publisher, RDR Books, has failed to present an affirmative defense of fair use and that publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon should not go on.

Reports on a Columbia University faculty committee's investigation of allegations that professors in the Middle Eastern studies department had intimidated pro-Israel, Jewish students. Absence of evidence that faculty members made anti-Semitic statements; Finding that professor Joseph A. Massad exceeded commonly accepted bounds of classroom behavior when he publicly criticized a student who he believed was defending Israel's treatment of Palestinians; Controversy of the short film "Columbia Unbecoming," by the David Project.

Reports that U.S. congressman Anthony D. Weiner as demanded that Columbia University fire a non-tenured professor of Arab politics who has been an outspoken critic of Israel. Complaint of Weiner that Joseph A. Massad had a crossed line between vigorous debate and discussion; Support received by Massad from his fellow academics who circulated a petition calling on Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia's president, to issue a categorical statement in defense of Massad; Issue concerning editorials in New York periodicals reporting that in a documentary that has not yet been released, Columbia students complain of anti-Israel sentiment among faculty members.

Highlights a conference held in the New York Public Library where 50-plus representatives from the largest libraries in North America and Western Europe discussed various library and information issues. Goals laid out by Ariane Iljon of Luxembourg; Keynote address by Richard Ekman, secretary of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Various issues discussed such as preservation of digital collections and libraries' relationship with the publishing industry; Other speakers and speeches.

Discusses library news briefs from the United States as of March 1999. The closing of two DeKalb County, Georgia library branches and ending of Sunday hours; The blind writer who is threatening to sue the New York Public Library for discrimination; The California Digital Library opened to the public after the launching of its World Wide Web site in January; Anderson Public Library in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky and its discovery of a rare first edition Japanese book of illustrated verse; Others.

Offers briefs relating to library science for January 1999. New York City librarians suing the local municipal union for alleged embezzlement and vote fraud; Why University of Arizona biologist Michael Rosenzweig is publishing the journal `Evolutionary Ecology Research'; The National Archives to cut 820 hours from former United States President Richard Nixon's White House tapes; Recommendation of library users in Dallas, Texas for the elimination of fines; More.