Easterbrook and his staff continue to make connections in Africa that keep a steady stream of materials coming into the library.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

"Obama as a presidential candidate was big news in Africa,and I decided that since we have a commitment in this library to collecting all kinds of information materials produced in Africa, we should immediately begin to collect materials about Obama, about how Africans responded to the Obama candidacy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

Among the announcements at Beijing Design Week, however, US based Material Connexions, the leading materials library and consultancy, announced a new Beijing office, its first in China.

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It grouped similar crimes together, such as merging theft of library materials with laws covering theft in general.

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Mr Putnam said missing from the library were materials documenting JFK's dalliances with actress Marilyn Monroe.

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