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The article offers information on the #ThankALibrarian campaign during the 2016 National Library Week at the Duke University Libraries. The campaign aims to recognize the contributions of Duke Library's staff, highlight the ways on how libraries can help the users and increase social media engagement with library users and supporters.

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.