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Armstrong, Eva V. (1933). "Some Treasures in the E. F. Smith Collection". General Magazine and Historical Chronicle. 25: 312..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground-image:url("upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png");background-image:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:9px;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground-image:url("upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png");background-image:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:9px;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground-image:url("upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png");background-image:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:9px;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground-image:url("upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png");background-image:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:12px;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflinkfont-weight:inherit

Armstrong, Eva V. (1933). "Some Incidents in the Collection of the E. F. Smith Memorial Library". Journal of Chemical Education. 10: 356358. doi:10.1021/ed010p356.

Armstrong, Eva V. (1936). "Playground of a Scientist". The Scientific Monthly. 42 (4): 339348. Bibcode:1936SciMo..42..339A. JSTOR16089.

Armstrong, Eva V. (1937). The story of the Edgar Fahs Smith memorial collection in the history of chemistry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Armstrong, Eva V. (February 1938). "Jane Marcet and her "Conversations on Chemistry"". Journal of Chemical Education. 15 (2): 53. Bibcode:1938JChEd..15...53A. doi:10.1021/ed015p53.

Armstrong, Eva V.; Lukens, Hiram S. (January 1939). "Lazarus Ercker and his Probierbuch. Sir John Pettus and his Fleta Minor". Journal of Chemical Education. 16 (1): 553562. Bibcode:1939JChEd..16..553A. doi:10.1021/ed016p553.Armstrong, Eva V.; Deischer, Claude K. (January 1942). "Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604-70). His chemical and human philosophy". Journal of Chemical Education. 19 (1): 3. Bibcode:1942JChEd..19....3A. doi:10.1021/ed019p3.

Armstrong, Eva V. (1947). "Dr. Henry Moyes, Scotch chemist". Journal of Chemical Education. 24 (4): 169. Bibcode:1947JChEd..24..169A. doi:10.1021/ed024p169.Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection; Armstrong, Eva; Smith, Edgar F. (1960). Catalog of the Edgar Fahs Smith memorial collection in the history of chemistry. Boston: G. K. Hall.

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The Lyman Draper Manuscript Collection includes his extensive notes and correspondence as well as the works and papers of a number of notable early Americans, collected by Lyman Draper on the history of the trans-Allegheny West. This area includes portions of the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, the entire Ohio Valley, and the Mississippi Valley. Among the most notable of the figures whose papers he collected are Joseph Brant, Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Thomas S. Hinde, John Donelson, James Robertson, General Joseph Martin, and Simon Kenton. Most materials cover the time period from the 1740s through the 1810s. The Draper Collection comprises nearly 500 volumes.

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin (now Wisconsin Historical Society), for which Draper served as corresponding secretary from 1854 to 1886, owns the collection of original 18th and 19th-century papers. Major research libraries around the United States have microfilm of the collection. An index of the Lyman Draper Manuscript Collection is shown below:

Series Title Volumes:

A George Bedinger Papers Vo. 1

B Draper's Life of Boone Vol. 1-5, 7-9

C Boone Papers Vol. 1-6, 10-33

D Border Forays Vol. 1-5

E Brady and Wetzel Papers Vol. 1-16

F Joseph Brant papers Vol. 1-22

G Brant Miscellanies Vol. 1-3

H Daniel Broadhead Papers Vol. 1-3

J George Rogers Clark Papers Vol. 1-64

K George Rogers Clark Misec.. Vol. 1-5

L Jonathan Clark Papers Vol. 1-2

M William Clark Papers Vol. 1-6

N William Croghan Papers Vol. 1-3

O Daniel Drake Paper Vol. 1-2

P Draper's Biographical Sketches Vol. 1-3

Q Draper's Historical Misc Vol. 1-8

R Draper's Memoranda Books Vol. 1-3

S Draper's Notes Vol. 1-33

T Thomas Forsyth Papers Vol. 1-9

U Frontier Wars Papers Vol. 1-24

V Georgia, Alabama & So. Carolina Papers Vol. 1

W Josiah Harmar Papers Vol. 1-2

X William Henry Harrison Vol. 1-5

Y Thomas S. Hinde Papers Vol. 1-41

Z Illionas Papers Vol. 1

AA William Irving Papers Vol. 1-2

BB Simon Kenton Papers Vol. 1-13

CC Kentucky Papers Vol. 1-36

DD Kings Mountain Papers Vol. 1-18

EE London Documents At Albany Vol. 1

FF Mecklenburg Declaration, By Draper Vol. 1-3

GG Mecklenburg Declaration Papers Vol. 1-3

HH Mecklenburg Declaration Misc.. Vol. 1-2

JJ Newspaper Extracts Vol. 1-4

KK North Carolina Papers Vol. 1

LL Paris Documents at Albany Vol. 1

MM Robert Paterson Papers Vol. 1-3

NN Pittsburg and Northwest Virginia Papers Vol. 1-10

OO Pension Statements Vol. 1

PP Potter Papers Vol. 1

QQ William Preston Papers Vol. 1-6

RR Rudolph-Noy Papers Vol. 1-10

SS David Shepherd Papers Vol. 1-5

TT South Carolina Papers Vol. 1

UU South Carolina In The Revolution Misc Vol. 1-2

VV Thomas Sumter Papers Vol. 1-24

WW John Cleves Symmes Papers Vol. 1-4

XX Tennessee Papers Vol. 1-7

YY Tecumseh Papers Vol. 1-13

ZZ Virginia Papers Vol. 1-16

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Public law libraries, once used primarily by legal professionals, now serve mostly non-attorneys handling their own legal matters. In court, self-represented litigants are a growing percentage of litigants, particularly in family law. Other non-attorney library patrons include entrepreneurs; people documenting personal loans, sales of goods and services, and simple real estate transfers; and people settling the affairs of family members who have died. For many of these patrons, attorneys' services are unaffordable, while others mistrust lawyers or find self-help to be more convenient than finding, evaluating, and hiring an attorney.

Many of these patrons are referred to the law library after seeking pro bono representation, or contacting a legal aid program such as those funded by the Legal Services Corporation. Due to chronic shortages of volunteer attorneys and of funding, only a fraction of the need is met annually. These programs often refer people to a public law library.

Because of the specialized nature of legal information resources, these patrons often need more hands-on assistance than law libraries' traditional patrons. Many law libraries now provide assistance by offering seminars and workshops; collaborating with public libraries; and using the internet and other media to provide instructions and forms. Some libraries either run or host self-help centers with attorneys or paralegals available to assist self-represented litigants.

In a 2013 survey of public and academic law libraries, the Self-Represented Litigation Network found that virtually all of the 153 responding law libraries provided some services to self-represented litigants. Services included:

traditional and computerized legal research help and referrals to other programs

e-mail reference, pathfinders, guides, and explanations of the legal process

legal information websites for self-represented parties

collections of materials for the non-lawyer

document delivery of resources in the library by fax, scan, and delivery referral sheets to their library

chat reference

court forms: forms instructions, forms in plain language, forms in multiple languages, form document assembly programs, assistance with filling out forms, forms creation, writing of form instructions

public computers with access to the Internet

e-filing support

LEP service with books and/or brochures in multiple languages, bi-lingual staff, and provision for either interpreters or access to a language line, and

services to prisoners.Libraries hosting self-help centers and programs reported providing:

legal clinics

lawyer in the library programs

mediation programs

self-help centers either staffed by law library employees, hosted in the law library but staffed by another organization, or providing support for self-help centers in another location, and

educational services such as workshops and webinars.An earlier compilation, "Directory of Library-Based Self-Help Programs," lists 29 programs in 16 states and the District of Columbia, providing information about services offered and program administration.

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The practice of ghosting first achieved widespread attention in 2005 when the Washington Post broke a story suggesting that the U.S. Army and the CIA were detaining "unlawful enemy combatants" at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq with little or no due process. According to the article, the CIA asked military intelligence officials to let them house ghost detainees at Abu Ghraib by September 2003 and proposed a Memorandum of Understanding between the agencies on the topic that November. The Army and the Defense Department have acknowledged that the United States has used ghosting in the past, but have said it was limited to isolated incidents. According to documents obtained by the Post, "unregistered CIA detainees were brought to Abu Ghraib several times a week in late 2003."

The Post cited as evidence the 2004 report by Major General Antonio Taguba:

... in a report describing abuses of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, he blamed the 800th Military Police Brigade, which guarded the prison, for allowing 'other government agencies' a euphemism that includes the CIA to hide 'ghost' detainees at Abu Ghraib. The practice, he wrote, 'was deceptive, contrary to Army doctrine, and in violation of international law'.When news of a detainee known only as Triple X became known to the public in late 2003, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was questioned about him. Rumsfeld was evasive, and speculated about why someone would want to keep a prisoner hidden from the Red Cross. This is considered a war crime under international law.

On September 9, 2004, General Paul J. Kern testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, stating that an inquiry he led found that the Army had cooperated with the CIA in hiding dozens of ghost detainees from the Red Cross. Kern told the Committee there may have been as many as 100 ghost detainees.

In addition to allegations and reports about ghost detainees in Iraq or East Asian countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, there have been reports that the US had held prisoners in detention centers in some European states. In 2006 the Swiss senator, Dick Marty wrote a memorandum on "alleged detention in Council of Europe states." He said the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had captured about 100 persons on European territory and subsequently rendered them to countries where they may have been tortured. The BBC reported that this number of 100 extraordinarily rendered persons is in addition to the estimated 100 U.S. ghost detainees.