CTAN has a new package: background

[CTAN Announcements]

This should within a day be at your local mirror.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: The background package
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Gonzalo Medina
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/
Summary description: Offers the placement of background material  on the pages of a document.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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The `background' package v1.0 offers the placement of background material 
on the pages of a document. The user can control many aspects (i.e., contents, 
position, color, opacity) of the background material that will be displayed.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/background
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/background
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .