Join us on Wednesday, February 12 from 12:30pm to 2:30pm for an early Valentine’s Day pop-up!
The Kalamazoo College’s A.M. Todd Rare Book Room is featuring its small printing press for students to hand press Valentine’s Day cards with a selected quote. Stop by the Upjohn Library Commons Lobby to get your very own hand-printed Valentines Day card!
The Kalamazoo Public Library’s Mobile Library will be visiting campus to hand out free copies of Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora, the 2025 Reading Together book (while supplies last). The KPL Mobile Library will be parked on Campus Drive in front of Hoben Hall from 11am-12pm on Wednesday, February 12th. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to visit and pick up a copy of the book!
KPL staff will also be signing visitors up for public library cards. Bring your K ID and know your Hicks Center mailing address or office address. Your Kalamazoo Public Library card can be used to check out materials from any of the five KPL locations, as well as from their digital collection of ebooks, films, and audiobooks.
The Library remains closed on Wednesday, January 22 due to weather conditions.
The Library will be closed on Tuesday, January 21 due to weather conditions. Stay safe out there!
We are open from NOON to 10pm on Monday, January 20.
In celebration of the day, check out these titles recommended by Kalamazoo College Inclusive Excellence (KCIE) to engage with antiracist ideas and practices:
The Library is open during Winter Break until December 20. Have a great break!
December 2 – December 22, 2024
Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: CLOSED
December 23, 2024 – January 1, 2025: CLOSED
January 2 – 5, 2025
Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: CLOSED
Winter Term hours begin Monday, January 6, 2025
The Library has modified hours for fall finals and Thanksgiving break.
Fall Finals Hours
Saturday, November 23: Noon – 10pm;
Sunday, November 24: 11am – 10pm;
Monday, November 25: 8am – 10pm;
Tuesday, November 26: 8am – 10pm.
Good luck – you’ll do great!!
Thanksgiving Break Hours
Wednesday, November 27: 9am – 3pm
Thursday, November 28 – Sunday, December 1: CLOSED
Vote vote vote! The Library has a collection of voting rights resources on display in the lobby. You can also check out these titles on our virtual display.
Learn how to vote in Michigan through the Michigan Department of State website, which also has information on how to register, where to vote, and polling places through the Michigan Voter Information Center. You can check your voter registration status on Vote.org and find out what’s on your ballot through Vote411.
There are also great general resources online. Brennan Center for Justice also has information about election integrity, and the United States Democracy Center has information about how elections work in Michigan.
The A.M. Todd Rare Book Room at the Kalamazoo College Library proudly announces the opening of its Fall 2024 exhibit, Witch: A Label and Its Repercussions, running from September 23 through November 20, 2024, Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. in the A.M. Todd Rare Book Room (ULC 326).
“Witch” is a term that shows up throughout pop culture, from books to movies we see examples of witches as old crones or beautiful young women, from scary and harmful to protectors or healers. This exhibit hopes to show some of the history of the label of “witch,” how it has been used to harm during the early modern European witch hunts and how it was then integrated into literature through works like Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Hansel and Gretel.
The Rare Book Room is also auctioning off a model of Baba Yaga’s hut for students who visit the exhibit! Baba Yaga is a Russian and Slavic folk tale about an old witch woman who lives in the forest in a hut that walks around on chicken feet. Baba Yaga is an ogress who kidnaps children to cook and eat them. She is often used by parents to encourage their children to behave. Her mythology is complex, and she can be found in many tales across Russian and Eastern European culture.
The Rare Book Room is putting this model of Baba Yaga’s chicken hut up for RAFFLE for K students during the duration of the Fall 2024 exhibit. To enter the raffle, simply come into the Rare Books Room to see the exhibit and sign in as a student on your way in! The results will be decided during week 10 using a random number generator.
The Kalamazoo College Library’s rare book collection contributes to the educational program of the college by introducing students to unique primary source materials in the context of their academic course work and through regularly scheduled public exhibitions.
Questions? Contact rarebookroom@kzoo.edu.
To mark this year’s Constitution Day (Tuesday, September 17th), the Library has compiled a guide of resources, including primary source documents, to provide the College community with information about one of America’s most important documents.
Established by Congress in 2004, Constitution Day recognizes the ratification of the U.S. constitution on September 17, 1787. The law, introduced by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, requires all educational institutions receiving federal funds provide information and instruction about the Constitution on September 17th each year.
