This document outlines the exhibits, events, and programming hosted by the Manhattanville College Library from 2012-2014 to cultivate collaboration and engagement. It lists the monthly exhibits hosted in the library spaces, as well as the marketing methods used to promote events. Special events discussed include orientations, welcome week activities, national library week, poetry month, and lectures. Assessment of these programs focused on attendance, surveys, and anecdotal feedback. The goal is to create opportunities for the campus community to interact with the library in a variety of ways.

1. Cultivating a
Community of
Collaboration in the
Academic Library
Elaine Provenzano, Assessment & Marketing Librarian
Manhattanville College Library
ASIG Conference - June 19, 2015

5. 2012/2013 EXHIBITS 2013/2014 EXHIBITS
August ∙ Welcome Week August ∙ Welcome Week (Main Exhibit Case)
September ∙ The Library Then and Now (throughout library) September ∙ Lawson Bowling Collection (Main Exhibit Case)
∙ New Majors Display & New Books
(New Book Shelf/DVD Case)
October ∙ The Library Re-imagined (Main Exhibit Case)
∙ 10th Anniversary Library Lecture Series (CPR)
October ∙ Sister Clark 100th Birthday (Main Exhibit Case)
∙ Biennial Art Show 10/14-11/8, Reception TBD
Fallfest Weekend (Quiet Room Walls & CPR)
November -
December
∙ New York Times Notable Books
(Main Exhibit Case & New Book Shelf)
November- December Biennial Art Show
January - February ∙ Black History Month: Martin Luther King and
the Civil Rights Movement, Manhattanville
College’s History of Social Justice (Main Exhibit
Case and Quiet Room Exhibit Case)
January- February ∙ A Peek Inside Special Collections (Quiet Room)
∙ Black History Month
March ∙ Read Promotion:
∙ If You’ve Seen the Movie, Read the Book
∙ Staff Picks (New Book Shelf/DVD Case)
March
April ∙ National Poetry Month (Main Exhibit Case) April ∙ National Poetry Month (Main Exhibit Case)
(Get Recommendations from English Dept.)
May ∙ Celebrating Graduating Seniors (Main Ex. Case) May Celebrating Graduating Seniors (Main Ex. Case)
June- July
∙ Reunion (Main Exhibit Case, Quiet Room, and
Exhibit Walls)
June- July Reunion (Main Exhibit Case, Quiet Room, and Exhibit
Walls)

6. Marketing Methods
Output
• Posters
• Handouts
• WOMM
• Daily Blast
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Manhattanville-College-
Library/93180807427
• Newsletter
http://annex.mville.edu/images/stories/Undergraduate_Academics/Library/Spri
ng_2015_Newsletter.pdf
• Faculty and department partnerships
Assessment
• Attendance
• Surveys and contests
• Focus Groups and ethnographic research
• Anecdotal Evidence

7. Special Events:
Participation in Manhattanville College Events: Resource Fair
at three Orientations, Welcome Week, Open Houses,
Accepted Students Day, Graduation, Information Literacy
Month
Orientation – Resource Fair

10. Welcome
Week

14. Celebrating National Information Literacy Month by
handing out candy and research tips to students on
Halloween.

17. National Library Week Events –
Communities Matter @ Your Library
Welcome Reception, Cake & Treats

18. The Silent Library, (based on
popular MTV show)

19. Student Invitational Library Design
Workshop
Read-A-Loud

20. Graffiti Wall of Reading, share a
favorite book or author

56. Graffiti Magazine Reading and
Reception, English Department Event

65. 2012/2013 LECTURES & EVENTS 2013/2014 LECTURES & EVENTS
Ideas
August Orientation, Resource Fair, Welcome Week August Orientation, Resource Fair, Welcome Week
September Library Lectures/ Midday Music
Special Event:Life Begins at Sixty; Library
Reimagined
Connie Hogarth Center Events
September Library Lectures/ Midday Music
October Library Lectures/ Midday Music
National Information Literacy Month
Special Event: Rhonna Goodman Lecture
October Library Lectures/ Midday Music
Special Event: Patricia Lee Gauch Lecture
Special Event: Sr. Clark 100th Birthday
Special Event: Biennial Art Show
November Library Lectures/ Midday Music November Library Lectures/ Midday Music
December Library Lectures/ Midday Music December Library Lectures/ Midday Music
January January Library Lectures/ Midday Music
February Library Lectures/ Midday Music February Library Lectures/ Midday Music
Select Database Research Fair
March Library Lectures/ Midday Music March Library Lectures/ Midday Music
April Library Lectures/ Midday Music
National Library Week: Graffiti Wall of Reading,
Read Aloud, Silent Library, Student Invitational
Library Design Workshop
National Poetry Month
Graffiti Magazine Kick-off
Jansma/Fasano Poetry Reading and Book Signing
April Library Lectures/ Midday Music
National Library Week
National Poetry Month
Graffiti Magazine Kick-off
May Special Event: Faculty Lecture Retrospective May
June June
July Orientation, Resource Fair July Orientation, Resource Fair