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The article discusses two publications released by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Creators in the Academic Library: Instruction and Outreach and Creators in the Academic Library: Collections and Spaces. It focuses on teaching creator research and enhancing students' understanding of their practice and emphasizes the role of academic libraries in creating collections, and communities for creators using academic literature technical standards and how-to manuals.

This article reports that the "Directory of Historical Textbook and Curriculum Collections" is now available from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The directory encompasses historical collections of school-book and curriculum materials in the United States and Canada. Entries include contact information, Web addresses, and brief narrative information.

This section offers news briefs on acquisitions involving U.S. college and research libraries. The Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York bought archival materials from Rose Associates. The University of South Carolina (USC) Libraries and the South Carolina State Museum purchased a collection of astronomy resources. Keene State College in New Hampshire has received the collection of letters, photographs and memorabilia of political activist Doris Haddock.

This section offers news briefs on library advocacy developments in the U.S. The American Library Association (ALA) has called on its members to urge their Senators to support the bipartisan Reed-Cochran library amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (S. 1177). The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015 (FASTR) was unanimously approved in July 2015 by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.