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The author describes the creation of an assignment that combined physical and digital resources for an archival journey into Japanese American incarceration and internment for the first Asian American Politics seminar offered at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. The author explains how the assignment worked for students by engaging them with the library, consulting with liaison librarian, reevaluation of archives and college libraries and research agenda development.

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.

The article discusses OverDrive Academic launched new open access and flexible digital content collections for academic libraries, allowing for unlimited concurrent use and greater cost certainty and it reports Taylor & Francis' Inc. open access collection provides free access to academic content.

The article reports that Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Inc. has introduced Choreo Insights library analytics solution to align academic library collections with institutional priorities, curriculum needs, and future trends by using WorldCat holdings data.

The article offers information related to creating a collection maintenance unit in technical services at the University of Illinois-Chicago. It is stated that the establishment of the new unit started in August 2016, just before the beginning of the fall semester. It is noted that it also brought together a team to care for and monitor physical library collections throughout their life cycle.

The National Center for Education Statistics' biennial collection of statistical data from college and university libraries will open officially on November 22, 2004. Academic library directors received a letter containing a registration certificate in October, including a user identification and password to access the web-based forms. The interactive menus, available on the agency's web page will be available on March 22, 2005. As soon as possible after the end of the data collection period, 2004 data will be available in the Academic Libraries Peer Comparison Tools. Upon completion, a summary report of the 2004 data will be posted on the agency web site.

The article announces the publication of "2013 Academic Library Trends and Statistics" by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Topics discussed include the library expenditures of academic libraries in all Carnegie classification of institutions of higher education, their library space usage, and their expenditures for salaries and wages.

The article focuses on guidelines for library services at the U.S. colleges for undergraduate students, which have been approved by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). It states that libraries should have their own mission statements and goals. It mentions that they should have assessment of library services including undergraduates who use and do not use such services.

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 article highlights the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section program of the 124th Annual Conference of the American Library Association on June 23-29, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. Some speakers discussed the issues, challenges, and responsibilities involved in collecting and managing treasured cultural materials. David Easterbrook of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University, described the library's efforts to make the collection available to everyone, regardless of affiliation.

This article reports that a consortium of libraries at five New York State independent colleges and universities have been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development of a resource-sharing system for academic libraries throughout the state. The project, called the ConnectNY, allows the institutions to share library holdings, making the collections of all five readily available to students, faculty and staff.

The article reports on the participation of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Library and School of Information and Library Science in the Open Content Alliance (OCA). OCA is a group of international organizations that are constructing a permanent archive of digitized text and multimedia materials on the Web. The school is the first from a university to join the alliance, and the library is the first library to contribute manuscript materials. And collections included in the archive are freely available for access and reuse.

The article details the process by which Smith College Libraries developed a multilevel information literacy program that is unique to individual majors. After initially lacking support for the creation of a information literacy program, librarians gradually developed relationships and liaisons with each department that would help increase program interest and ultimately the program itself. The article covers the benefits of faculty involvement in the creation of the program as well as the challenge of sustaining the program's workload.

The article offers academic library news briefs as of March 2012. San Diego State University (SDSU) has digitized its collection of the papers of civil rights leader Harold K. Brown. The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has endorsed the information access standard Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. Northeastern University Libraries has launched a new website available at library.northeastern.edu.

The section offers updates related to academic and research libraries. A digital collection documenting the life and work of Brooks Hays was launched by the University of Arkansas Libraries' special collections department. Four student films about the importance of open access to research and data were voted the best during the fourth annual Sparky Awards. The University of Kansas (KU) has taken the lead in forming a coalition with 21 other universities to establish the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI).

The article offers information on Islam manuscripts on the Internet. It presents a number of resources and sites that illustrate the depth of Islamic codicology, and the developments that have taken place in the scholarship.The Internet resources presented cover European languages and are divided between university collections, libraries and museums, and associations and miscellanea. Some of the resources include The Book of Curiosities from the University of Oxford, the Shanama Digital Index from Cambridge University, and the Oriental Digital Collection at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Abstracts of articles appearing in the September 2015 issue of the magazine are presented that include "The Trending Academic Library Job Market: An Analysis of Library Position Announcements From 2011 With Comparisons to 1996 and 1988" by Therese F. Triumph and Penny M. Beile, "Mining and Analyzing circulation and ILL Data fro Informed Collection Development" by Forrest E. Link, Yuji Tosaka and Cathy Weng and "Graduate Conversations: Assessing the Space Needs of Graduate Students."

The article offers information on the availability of the Digital Initiatives Unit audio archive of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Decker Library which feature unreleased and rare audio recordings.

The article offers information on the international agreements signed by the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) Library with the Göttingen State and University Library in Germany and the Fudan University Library in Shanghai, China.

The article offers news briefs related to academic libraries in the U.S. as of October 2014. The University of Missouri Libraries have received $400,000 donation from private organization Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries has awarded a mini-grant to Mississippi State University Libraries in support of its proposal on the principles and resource sharing contexts. Papers of Montana Senator Max Baucus have been acquired by the University of Montana.

The article offers news briefs related to academic libraries in the U.S. as of October 2014. The Harvard University's Graduate School of Education has launched its Usable Knowledge, a website designed to take research conducted by their faculty and students might be used teachers, administrators and policymakers. Academic librarians group Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) will publish a special March 2015 issue of the journal as part of its 75th anniversary celebration.

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.

The article presents update on grants and acquisitions involving academic libraries. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation gave a 550,000 U.S. dollar grant to Washington University in Saint Louis Libraries to preserve the film "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965." The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) received 117,567 U.S. dollars from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to research on data curation. The James B. Sander Collection was donated to the John M. Kelly Library of the University of Saint Michael's College.