The Kalamazoo College Library has thousands of eBooks, streaming films, and online journals in our collection! From the Library Home Page, just click the Online Resources tab in the purple box and search for your terms. You’ll get eBooks, streaming video, articles, and more!

You can also search the National Emergency Library and check out eBook titles for free. The Internet Archive opened this collection of eBooks to support emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while schools and libraries are closed.

Don’t forget you can also use the Kalamazoo Public Library’s online materials! Don’t have a KPL card? You can register for a temporary electronic card to use their online resources (books, movies, music, magazines, etc). Students can use their Hicks Center mailbox as their mailing address for a card. Kalamazoo College faculty and staff can use their office mailing address.

Librarians can help your with your research — wherever you are in the world!

You can sign up for a one-on-one appointment with a Librarian through Research Rescue. We have Librarians available in the evenings and weekends, Michigan time. Just click on Research Rescue to see what times and days are available. We can talk with you via email, or in real time with Teams or Zoom. Just let us know what works for you!

You can also ask us questions through this online form, or email reference@kzoo.edu.

Check out our videos on Microsoft Stream! They cover everything from databases to primary sources and how to use ebooks.

The library building is closed, but we are still here here to help!

If you were unable to attend Jonathan Safran Foer’s presentation on the 2020 Reading Together book, We Are the Weather, you’re in luck! You can watch his presentation online!

In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time: saving the planet. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat—and don’t eat—for breakfast.

The purpose of Reading Together is to build a stronger community with deeper connections through the common experience of reading the same book and exploring its themes together. Very simply, when we read together, we grow together.

Many libraries and archives are asking people to document their experiences during the pandemic, and the Kalamazoo College Archives wants your stories!

The Kalamazoo College Archives invites students, faculty, and staff) to document their personal experiences during the COVID-19 crisis. Daily life under a global pandemic will be an important research topic in the future and the College Archives seeks to preserve these stories.

You can submit your experiences in a variety of ways: write a journal, submit photos or artwork, write poetry, or make videos. We want to know about topics like:

• The shift to distance learning
• Displacement from residence halls or off-campus housing
• Working your campus job remotely
• Staying in touch with friends and family
• The international student experience
• Student organization activities
• Social distancing
• Self-quarantine
• Changes in leisure activities, celebrations, religious events

Visit the Kalamazoo College Archives for more information about format and content. We want to hear from you!

The Kalamazoo College Library has thousands of eBooks, streaming films, and online journals in our collection! From the Library Home Page, just click the Online Resources tab in the purple box and search for your terms. You’ll get eBooks, streaming video, articles, and more!

You can also search the National Emergency Library and check out eBook titles for free. The Internet Archive opened this collection of eBooks to support emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while schools and libraries are closed.

Don’t forget you can also use the Kalamazoo Public Library’s online materials! Don’t have a KPL card? You can register for a temporary electronic card to use their online resources (books, movies, music, magazines, etc). Students can use their Hicks Center mailbox as their mailing address for a card. Kalamazoo College faculty and staff can use their office mailing address.

There’s a lot of information out there about the coronavirus and COVID-19. We’ve put together information for you that brings you local, national, and global information about the virus:

• Coronavirus Information and Prevention.

We also recommend the following resources for local information:

• Kalamazoo College Campus Updates;
• Kalamazoo County COVID-19 Tracker;
• State of Michigan Coronavirus Tracker (Bridge Magazine).

Many of our resources are available to you online anytime, anywhere you have internet access.

• There’s remote access to subject guides and research databases;
• For faculty, we have a guide to Library Resources for Faculty who are teaching online [outdated link removed];
• For students, we have a guide to Library Resources for Students who are learning remotely [outdated link removed];
• All of our online journals are available for you;
• Search Library OneSearch for e-books. Just type in your search terms and limit to “available online;”
• You can connect virtually with our librarians! Just email us at reference@kzoo.edu and we can connect with you via Zoom, Teams, or another method.

Librarians are working remotely and are here for you!

Library staff are working remotely and figuring out what library services we will be able to offer, based on both the health and safety of our staff and our ability to enter the library building.

Please be patient while we continue to work towards a balance of providing services and keeping our staff safe. Expect an email announcement of current library services soon!

If you need assistance with research help, our Reference Librarians are available to help you. Email reference@kzoo.edu to connect with us!

Governor Whitmer has issued Executive Order 2020-9 which closes places of public accommodation including all libraries.

Beginning as soon as possible but no later than today, March 16, 2020 at 3:00 pm, libraries are closed to “ingress, egress, use, and occupancy by members of the public.” View Executive Order 2020-9.

As the situation continues to evolve, we will update this website and our social media.

The Library will host therapy dogs TODAY, March 12, in the lobby. Stop by between 3:00 and 4:30!