SECURITY FUNDS
Congress and the president have approved new funds for the Library to recover from the anthrax threat and other security measures following the events of Sept. 11.

D.C. HEALTH
Dr. Ivan Walks, chief health officer for the District of Columbia, delivered the keynote address for the Library's African American History Month celebration.

ABE, HONESTLY
The National Digital Library Program and the Manuscript Division have announced the final release of the Abraham Lincoln Papers online at the American Memory Web site.

NEW ONLINE
Other new collections available from American Memory.

HONORED GUEST
Ryozo Kato, wife of the Japanese ambassador to the United States, recently visited the Library's exhibition of Ukiyo-e art.

ISLAM IN AMERICA
The Library's African and Middle Eastern Division and the Office of Scholarly Programs recently sponsored the eighth in a series of symposia on Islam.

CIVIL WAR DIARIST
The nation's capital was a city in crisis during the Civil War years. One civil servant of the era, Horatio Nelson Taft, kept a diary of those years, and the Library has made it available online.

NEWS FROM THE CENTER FOR THE BOOK