Gerhardstein, noted Cincinnati civil rights attorney, has donated to the University of Cincinnati Libraries' Archives and Rare Books Library papers documenting his nearly 50-year career in civil rights litigation and advocacy, with focuses in reproductive rights, prisoner's rights, policing, employment discrimination, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights. Material in the extensive collection includes briefs; pleadings; depositions; trial transcriptions; newspaper, magazine, and journal articles; as well as correspondence and speeches spanning Gerhardstein's career and notable legal cases. There are 184 boxes available for research, with 45 more boxes sealed under court order. Gerhardstein is the founder of the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, a nonprofit agency that advocates and litigates for criminal justice reform. Gerhardstein is a partner at Friedman, Gilbert + Gerhardstein, an Ohio civil rights law firm. The Al (Alphonse A.) Gerhardstein Collection is available for research and study in the Archives and Rare Books Library.The Library of Congress has acquired 1,588 volumes of airline tariffs, rules, and routes from the Airline Tariff Publishing Company, ensuring that future generations will see how flights were sold, ticketed, and distributed from the 1940s through the dawn of the internet age. Since 1965, the company has collected and distributed the world's fare and fare-related data to the global ecosystem so travel agents, airlines, global distribution systems, and sales channels can sell airline tickets to the public. Before the digital age, these fares, rules, and routes were published and printed at the company and distributed around the world in large bound books. This large collection contains tariffs and rules for cargo, military, passenger, and joint passenger travel for domestic, international, and regional travel up to as late as 2004. This record of the evolution of air passenger travel through the lens of fares and tariffs will be a significant addition to the library's Science, Technology and Business Division.
The Penn State University Libraries received an Institute of Museum and LibraryServices (IMLS) grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to purchase international and industry standards in support of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in core Pennsylvania industries. These items are now available for loan to state residents and businesses. The $48,644 IMLS grant was used to gather information from statewide stakeholders about specific needs for standards in eight key industries identified by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development that could benefit from improved access to standards: advanced manufacturing, food processing and manufacturing, energy production and transition, life sciences and medical technology, corporate headquarters, distribution and logistics, plastics and chemicals, and robotics and artificial intelligence. The project also identified standards that affirm DEIA and further the United Nation...