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Comic conventions have become a part of popular culture throughout the last decade, and libraries have capitalized on reaching out to this sector. The Palm Harbor Library (PHL) in Palm Harbor, Florida and St. Petersburg College’s (SPC) Tarpon Springs campus library teamed up to offer a two-day event named the Anime and Comics Enthusiasts Convention (ACEcon) that aimed to bridge their communities together with three central goals: increasing visibility of the institutions, educating the local community, and establishing the libraries as places of interest. This paper discusses how this informal partnership began, the benefits of an academic and public library partnership, and ideas on how this concept could be improved for future events In the spirit of collaboration and relationship building, the Palm Harbor Library (PHL) in Palm Harbor, Florida and St. Petersburg College’s (SPC) Tarpon Springs campus library (also called the Learning Resources Center) formed a unique, informal partnership. The communities of Palm Harbor and Tarpon Springs, Florida, located in Pinellas County, are geographically close, located only 3.6 miles apart from each other. This proximity contributed to the feasibility of the partnership. This informal partnership had institutional support from the Director of the Palm Harbor Library as well as the Director of Learning Resources, Campus Provost, and Student Life and Leadership Coordinator at SPC’s Tarpon Springs campus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated researchers' perceptions of RDM activities at the Mahatma Gandhi Graduate Research Library (MGGL) to recommend measures to enhance managing, sharing, and reusing research data. The study was underpinned by the DCC curation lifecycle model and the community capability model framework (CCMF), which enabled the investigator to employ a descriptive research design to capture data from a broad cross-section of 330 researchers purposively. The data was analyzed using SPSS to generate descriptive and inferential statistics that enabled the investigator to address the research problem. Though the library had policies on research data, quality assurance, and intellectual property, study findings evidenced no explicit policies to guide each stage of data curation and capabilities. There were also inadequacies in the knowledge and skills capability, technological infrastructure, and collaborative partnerships. Overall, RDM faced challenges in all examined capabilities. The study recommends establishing an RDM unit within the library to oversee the implementation of RDM activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collaboration between librarians and archivists is a valuable way to share expertise and effort when instructing first-year English students on research skills they will need to succeed in college. It is also vital to orienting new faculty to library and archive resources for their scholarship and teaching, as well as encouraging students to value the library and archives resources and knowledge. The unique first-year English program at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) provides a constantly renewing pool of both new students and faculty members. This article identifies common themes in library and archive instruction and key elements of engaging first-year faculty and their students in becoming long-term patrons, in the midst of Georgia Tech's Library Next initiative, a re-imagining of the twenty-first century library and a major renovation of physical spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The information literacy literature contains many articles highlighting new instruction initiatives but few articles documenting sustainable ones. This article examines the literature on library partnerships in general and Honors Programs specifically and reports on the evolution of an ongoing fifteen year partnership between the University of Louisville Honors Program and the Ekstrom Library. It then discusses the development of this partnership and the changes in the information literacy program engendered by this partnership. It ends by defining some of the elements that made the partnership sustainable, ones that could potentially be transferred to other such partnerships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]