This was a great three-week course presented by Library Journal and School Library Journal. The presenters came from both school and public libraries and described how their successful partnerships came to be. It was inspiring to hear how libraries worked together to create special programs that connected children in the community to resources. Following are some of the tips that they gave that stood out to me. You need to be persistent until you find that right person to start the partnership and to understand that the partnership may involve many people at multiple levels. When you find that connection with someone else willing to work towards building a partnership, you should find a project on the smaller and simpler side so you can start to build your partnership on something that is very achievable and not a multi-year project. They also highlighted a program that OverDrive is offering called Public Library Connect, which allows students to checkout age-level appropriate materials from the public library’s OverDrive collection without needing a card because they get a special code in school. Learning about this option made me incredibly excited because it seems like a great way to increase access to digital materials for those children who are not able to get parents to sign them up for library cards. At its heart, this class was all about how public and school libraries can join together in a partnership to achieve the shared goal of creating a strong community that can easily access resources.