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Disputed Iraqi Archives Find a Home at the Hoover Institution

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Two shipping containers’ worth of records created by Iraq’s Baath Party that have been stored on an American naval facility for the past 21 months are about to find a new home at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank and library affiliated with Stanford University.
Hoover signed a deal on [...]

Preserving Library of Congress treasures is goal of FSU researcher

From Florida State University:
With more than 134 million items in its collection, the Library of Congress has no shortage of reading materials. This summer, a Florida State University chemist will use his knowledge of cellulose, a key component of paper, to help the world’s largest library find ways to preserve its vast treasure trove of [...]