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Chepesiuk, R. (2005). Chronicling the Cold War. American Libraries 36(2), p. 36-37.

The effects of the fall of Soviet Russia are still being felt in the world of government documents. A wealth of highly useful, formerly top-secret, nearly unorganized documents are becoming available to average users. The Cold War International History Project aims to collect documents (or copies of them) and make them available to the Western world. They maintain strong working ties with LOC as well as educational institutions. One of CWIHP's main goals is to provide educators with access to primary documents for teaching about communism and the Cold War. Their staff is very small with no full-time librarian, although they have hired library consultants in the past. They are attempting to make their online records metadata-rich for good searching, as their collection has many unique features (they are in all different lanugages, produced by different governments, etc.)

Also today: a severe paper jam and a quick brush up on legislative process.