• Fundraising efforts to influence friends of the library
• Celebrations of new acquisitions to college archives or special collections
• Strategic planning profiles for faculty and campus administrators
• Internal memoranda to library staff
• Timely service, technology, collection, staffing, and professional development news for students and other members of the campus community

Publications created with a larger audience in mind are increasingly commonplace in this online environment. These include thoughtful essays on the rigorous challenges facing academic libraries and the scholarly communication community. One of the purposes for publishing this online directory was to ease access to documents that affect all types of academic libraries