diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e5cbf33..f400e19 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Mon Apr 12 09:56:23 EDT 2004	Brian Bruns <brian@bruns.com>
 	* src/libmdb/backend.c: free backends on exit (Jeff Smith)
 	* src/libmdb/index.c: missing function mdb_swap_n()
 	* src/libmdb/file.c: 
+	* src/libmdb/mem.c: 
+	* src/libmdb/stats.c: 
 	* configure.in:
 	* doc/reference/libmdb/Makefile.am:
 	* doc/reference/libmdb/libmdb-sections.txt:
diff --git a/src/libmdb/mem.c b/src/libmdb/mem.c
index 7a43d85..373c3a0 100644
--- a/src/libmdb/mem.c
+++ b/src/libmdb/mem.c
@@ -24,21 +24,39 @@
 #include "dmalloc.h"
 #endif
 
+/**
+ * mdb_init:
+ *
+ * Initializes the LibMDB library.  This function should be called exactly once
+ * by calling program and prior to any other function.
+ *
+ **/
 void mdb_init()
 {
 	mdb_init_backends();
 }
 
+/**
+ * mdb_exit:
+ *
+ * Cleans up the LibMDB library.  This function should be called exactly once
+ * by the calling program prior to exiting (or prior to final use of LibMDB 
+ * functions).
+ *
+ **/
 void mdb_exit()
 {
 	mdb_remove_backends();
 }
 
+/* private function */
 MdbStatistics *mdb_alloc_stats(MdbHandle *mdb)
 {
 	mdb->stats = g_malloc0(sizeof(MdbStatistics));
 	return mdb->stats;
+/* private function */
 }
+/* private function */
 void 
 mdb_free_stats(MdbHandle *mdb)
 {
diff --git a/src/libmdb/stats.c b/src/libmdb/stats.c
index eb2789c..addcf33 100644
--- a/src/libmdb/stats.c
+++ b/src/libmdb/stats.c
@@ -23,6 +23,18 @@
 #include "dmalloc.h"
 #endif
 
+/**
+ * mdb_stats_on:
+ * @mdb: Handle to the (open) MDB file to collect stats on.
+ *
+ * Begins collection of statistics on an MDBHandle.
+ *
+ * Statistics in LibMDB will track the number of reads from the MDB file.  The
+ * collection of statistics is started and stopped with the mdb_stats_on and
+ * mdb_stats_off functions.  Collected statistics are accessed by reading the
+ * MdbStatistics structure or calling mdb_dump_stats.
+ * 
+ */
 void
 mdb_stats_on(MdbHandle *mdb)
 {
@@ -31,6 +43,15 @@ mdb_stats_on(MdbHandle *mdb)
 
 	mdb->stats->collect = TRUE;
 }
+/**
+ * mdb_stats_off:
+ * @mdb: pointer to handle of MDB file with active stats collection.
+ *
+ * Turns off statistics collection.
+ *
+ * If mdb_stats_off is not called, statistics will be turned off when handle
+ * is freed using mdb_free_handle.
+ **/
 void
 mdb_stats_off(MdbHandle *mdb)
 {
@@ -38,6 +59,12 @@ mdb_stats_off(MdbHandle *mdb)
 
 	mdb->stats->collect = FALSE;
 }
+/**
+ * mdb_dump_stats:
+ * @mdb: pointer to handle of MDB file with active stats collection.
+ *
+ * Dumps current statistics to stdout.
+ **/
 void
 mdb_dump_stats(MdbHandle *mdb)
 {