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The article discusses the highlights of the 134th Annual Conference of the American Library Association (ALA), held in San Francisco, California on June 25-30, 2015. Topics discussed at Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) sessions are changes in higher education and their impact on academic libraries, visual literacy standards, use of instructional design in distance library instruction, support for veterans' information needs, and academic integrity for faculty development.

The article discusses how publishing houses and librarians from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, promoted library usage using the one-day event "Passport to Information Day." It has been a perennial concern for librarians that electronic resources are underutilized despite the quality of library resources. A passport was created with all the names of the publishing houses. The sales person would stamp the passport when a customer dropped by the publishers' booths. Librarians joined and demonstrated how their electronic resources can be used in the libraries. According to the author, the event was a learning process for both the users, librarian and the publishers.