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This section presents news briefs related to library science and libraries in the U.S. as of April 1990. The vision of a virtual library, where a vast array of resources will be accessible to students and scholars via computer, is the central image behind the newly founded National Research and Education Network (NREN). NREN is the creation of the Coalition for Networked Information, founded by the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE--the organization for the management of information technology in higher education--and EDUCOM--a consortium of colleges and universities to facilitate information technology use in higher education. A new paper preservation process is being tested by the Lithium Division of FMC Corp. in Bessemer, North Carolina. The process, which is described as deacidifying, buffering, and strengthening acidic paper, will be tested in a pilot unit built in the North Carolina location this year. The FMC Corp. has been researching mass deacidification technologies since 1987. Gordon & Breach Science Publishers has succeeded in obtaining a temporary injunction against the American Mathematical Society (AMS), barring AMS from distributing in West Germany its November 1989 comparative price survey of science journals.

Reports that the U.S. Library of Congress has issued a statement encouraging the widespread use of acid-free paper in the manufacture and publication of books. Short estimated life expectancy of books printed on acid paper; Need to use alkaline paper; Issuance of guidelines for paper longevity.

Reports that the Center for Paper Permanency of the New York Public Library will serve as a clearinghouse for information about ongoing efforts by various organizations involved in permanent paper advocacy efforts in New York City, New York. Provision of information on permanent alkaline paper; Advantage of using alkaline paper.

Reports on the introduction of a sample resolution to establish a national policy on permanent paper in the U.S. Recommendation of the resolution; Timetable for the reintroduction of the legislation.

Reports that the board of regents of the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland has convened a Permanent Paper Task Force to advise the library and to encourage medical publishers to use permanent, acid-free paper in their publications. Availability of the paper; Plan of the task force to publicize the advantages of acid-free paper among medical editors and publishers.

Reports on the efforts of the National Library of Medicine in the U.S. to stop paper decay at its source. Proposal to use acid-free paper in the production of biomedical literature; Discussion on ramifications of the proposal; Propagation for mode of paper preservation.

Reports that the National Information Infrastructure (NII) Task Force has released a White Paper proposing amendments to extend copyright regulations to include electronic data. Drafted by the NII's Working Group on Intellectual Property; Intent of the amendments; How the government hopes to coax information providers to mount protected data on computer networks; Opinion of various experts about the White Paper.

Deals with the plan of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to dispose several of the public's library paper copies of U.S. patents in August 2002. Purpose of the plan; Significance of the paper collection at public libraries; Estimated cost of maintaining paper issues at public libraries.

Addresses the key issues faced by libraries in 1988. Efforts of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to use libraries to study the nature of the use of their collections by foreign nationals who could be spies; Destruction of the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences in a fire; Restructuring of the Library of Congress; Discussion of the impact of the 1987 stock market crash on library finance; View that the rising prices of serials such as scientific and technical journals from outside the U.S. are a concern for libraries; Argument that permanent paper would solve most of the problems in library preservation. INSET: People 1988.

Reports that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has begun discarding so-called examiners' copies from its collection of patents issued since the mid-19th century. Proposal to discard all paper copies and encourage patent research on a computerized database; Idea that the database will not be able to replace certain aspects of the paper copies; Proposal to discard the public collection of copies.

Presents noteworthy United States government resources cited in the Library Journal 1999 Notable Government Document Awards. Trends including a mix of digital and print resources; Federal documents such as the web site Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (bensguide.gpo.gov/); State and local documents including the 'Oklahoma Disability Etiquette Handbook: ADA & Resources;' International documents such as the book 'Cities and the Environment: New Approaches for Eco-Societies.'

This article reports on the signing into law of PL 101-423 by U.S. President George Bush on October 12, 1990, making it the official policy of the U.S. that federal records, books, and publications of enduring value be produced on acid-free permanent papers. Under the auspices of the law, the Librarian of the Congress, the Archivist of the United States, and the Public Printer shall jointly monitor the federal government's progress in implementing the national policy. Vice chair of the Joint Committee on the Library, Senator Claiborne Pell declared that the law could result in a net reduction of costs to the government, in that the deacidification of government materials is setting the U.S. an estimate savings of $100 million. Several Library Congress publications are already printed on acid-free paper.

The article focuses on a U.S. House of Representative's vote to repeal U.S. President George W. Bush's executive order which allowed ex-presidents and their heirs to block the release of their papers indefinitely. Additionally, the House of Representatives voted to require U.S. Presidents to reveal financial donors.

Reports on former United States President Gerald Ford's donated papers and accumulated historical materials during his years of public service to the federal government for Michigan libraries. Distribution of documents and memorabilias in separate libraries; Fund raising drives organized for building facilities and maintenance.

Reports on the access ban lifted on the personal and official papers donated by former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the Library of Congress. Number of years before Kissinger's collection will be opened; People who are allowed to go through the documents; Types of documents donated.

Focuses on University of Texas-Austin's efforts to seek papers for a March 1980 seminar on Libraries and Culture. Exploration of role and significance of graphic records in society; Paper requirements.

Reports on the release of a number of former President Ronald Reagan's records from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Records which remain off-limits to historians and the public because of an executive order by the administration of George W. Bush, which grants presidents the right to review papers before release; Mention of the Freedom of Information Act, which forbids federal records from being kept private for longer than 12 years.

Reports that retired congressman Paul McHale, Pennsylvania, donated his papers to Muhlenberg College Library, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Nature of the documents; Papers not given to McHale's alma mater, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; McHale's friendship with Muhlenberg president Arthur Taylor.

Reports that the University of Pennsylvania library has been awarded a grant to catalog its collection of opera and spiritual singer Marian Anderson's papers. Amount of the grant; Details of the collection.

Announces that the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library, Columbia, has acquired the papers of author Joseph Heller. Comments from Heller; Description of the papers; Edited typescript of `Catch-22'; Role of Matthew Bruccoli, South Carolina professor, in acquiring the papers.

This article looks at the recall of government papers from libraries and how the protest of librarians reversed the government's position. The controversy began after the DOJ requested through the GPO's Superintendent of Documents that five documents distributed on civil and criminal asset forfeiture procedures were to be withdrawn and destroyed immediately, as they are intended for internal use only. The documents were Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure, Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms, Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes, Asset forfeiture and Money Laundering Resource Directory, and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA). Librarians, however, launched a campaign to reverse the order and the American Library Association (ALA) submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, asking why DOJ requested that documents that have been available for as long as four years be removed. Boston Public Library president Bernie Margolis, in a statement on the ALA Council electronic list, said he had asked that the decision be reconsidered and noted that he had copied the documents for cataloging as part of BPL's collection. Though DOJ officials said that the materials were inappropriately distributed to depository libraries through an error, Superintendent of Documents Judith Russell noted that the agency determined that these materials are "not sufficiently sensitive to require removal from the depository library system."

Reports that the Bridgeport Public Library in Bridgeport, Connecticut has taken up a role as a depository for city papers dating from 1954 to 1980. Reason for the new role; Increased awareness of the importance of maintaining and preserving the city records; Case of lost government records.

Reports that Just before his death novelist James Michener donated his manuscripts and other papers to the University of Northern Colorado. Michener's receipt of a degree from the school; His tenure there as a teacher; Establishment of a repository to hold the materials, named after Michener.

Reports that Clint Eastwood, actor and politician, has given the original prints of his films to the Museum of Modern Art and his papers to the Wesleyan Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Focuses on the discovery of the papers of historian Leon Trotsky and his son Lev Sedov at the Hoover Institution Archives in Stanford, California. Availability of the papers in microfilm.

Reports that the second National Conference on Integrated Library Systems has issued a call for papers to be presented at the September 13 and 14, 1984 Atlanta event. Date for receipt of completed papers; Topics that are included in the conference.

Reports that the National Librarians Association has put out a call for papers on trends and issues detrimental to librarianship in the United States. Qualification criteria; Range of topics that may be discussed by the academic papers; Suggested length of the academic papers.

Reports the donation of a collection of manuscripts, letters, still and moving pictures and sound recordings of Ernest Hemingway to the Library of Congress by A.E. Hotchner. Contents of the collection, including posthumously published works `Islands in the Stream' and `The Dangerous Summer'; Reasons for Hotchner's donation.

Reports on an announcement made at the annual meeting of the Ohio Conservation Committee in October 1985 to the effect that the Deacidification Task Force 'has selected the Wei T'o system modeled after the plant... at the Public Archives of Canada.' Reasons for choosing the Wei T'o process over the Library of Congress DEZ system; Plans of the committee to seek a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Informs that the University of California at San Francisco can continue to display on the World Wide Web papers stolen from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. The June 1995 ruling by the California Supreme Court; The papers' revelation that tobacco companies concealed the addictiveness of nicotine from the public for years; How the university obtained the papers; Number of users accessing the papers on the Web site; Details.

Reports on a lawsuit filed by Coretta Scott King against Boston University for the return of the papers of the late Martin Luther King Jr. King's deposit of his papers at the university in 1968; Claim that the papers belong to King's estate, not the university; Proposal that the papers be kept at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reports that a standard for the manufacture of paper that will last several hundred years has been published and is available for $5 from the American National Standards Institute in New York.

Reports that the National Intellectual Property Researchers Association (NIPRA) has sued to keep the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from removing from public use a research collection of paper patents. Supplementary letter to the USPTO officials that asked that paper copies are not destroyed until evidence has been presented to a court; Announcement from the USPTO that it had planned to destroy the paper collection and instead direct researchers to its digital database; Argument from researchers that the paper collection is valuable.

Reports on the addition of a collection of materials on author Ernest Hemingway to the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library. Description of the collections, gathered by Maurice Speiser, Hemingway's attorney; Other important collections housed at the Thomas Cooper Library.

Reports that Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Co. has agreed to use Wei T'o Associates Inc. preservation technology. Outlook for the use of the technology to preserve books, documents, maps, works of art, and other paper-based materials; Use of nonflammable materials by the system which fill paper with a nontoxic magnesium carbonate complex to neutralize acids and prevent further acid development; Use of the Wei T'o process to preserve documents such as the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution; Treatment of books by the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada with the system.

Reports on the acquisition of the complete papers of novelist John Gardner by the University of Rochester in New York.

Reports on the release of public-hearing results regarding biomedical literature in the U.S. in 1987. Key issues of interest; Analysis of pertinent issues and relevant topics; Implications on libraries and library science.

Reports on the need for effective and innovative programs, plans, materials or concepts used for instructing patrons in use of public library materials and services for a paper to be delivered at the April 1986 Public Library Association conference in the U.S.

Reports on the efforts of General Libraries of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas at the Undergraduate Library to help students pick and research topics for a mandatory library paper. Development and cataloging of a list of topics that reflect interests and concerns of student researchers; Examination of the subject access to topics to make sure of predictable subject headings and sufficient cross-references.

Reports on the expected test results from the first large scale mass paper deacidification test of a process developed in 1976 by chemists of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Reports that the New England Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its advanced apprenticeship program in paper conservation.