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* The Federal Library and Information Center Committee presented its 2005 Federal Librarian of the Year award to Leslie Campbell, law library program administrator at the National Judiciary Library Program for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, at a March 23 ceremony at the Library of Congress.

* Google and the National Archives and Records Administration launched a pilot program February 24 to make NARA's video holdings available free through Google Video (video.google.com/nara.html) and the NARA website (www.archives.gov).

* First Lady Laura Bush announced March 8 the Gulf Coast School Library Recovery Initiative, which makes grants available for books for school libraries affected by the 2005 hurricanes. See www.laurabushfoundation.org for more information.

* March 13 the Senate confirmed Anne-Imelda Radice, acting assistant chairman for programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, as director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a term of four years.

* The National Archives and Records Administration issued a final rule February 21 on how government agencies should maintain short-term electronic records such as e-mail. Agencies can store records "of short-term (180 days or less) interest… which have no documentary or evidential value'--including simple requests for information and routine notifications of meetings--on their e-mail systems without having to copy them to a paper or electronic recordkeeping system, the notice stated.

PHOTO (COLOR): Anne-Imelda Radice