Relax and relieve some stress by spending a few minutes petting a furry animal friend! Therapy dogs will visit campus in the Kalamazoo College Library lobby on Thursday, March 14th from 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. De-stress a bit with a canine companion before finals week kicks in.
Date: Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Upjohn Library Commons Lobby
1200 Academy St., Kalamazoo, MI 49006
Contact: Stacy Nowicki: stacy.nowicki@kzoo.edu
Who was A. M. Todd? Come see the last couple of weeks of the Winter Quarter Rare Book Room exhibit, A. M. Todd and the Case of the Rare Books to solve the mystery!
January 7 – March 16, 2019
Tues – Wed: 8:30 a.m. – 12 p. m.
Fri: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Other times by appointment.
Today in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of nearly 75,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry.
In 1942, the U.S. government hired Dorothea Lange, known for her FSA photographs like Migrant Mother, to make a photographic record of the “evacuation” and “relocation” of Japanese-Americans. She was opposed to the relocation but took the commission because she believed “a true record of the evacuation would be valuable in the future.”
The military seized her photographs, depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006.
Check out this website by Anchor Editions, where you can see some of Lange’s photos from the National Archives, including the captions she wrote and quotes from people who were imprisoned in the camps.
One of our beloved staplers, Baby J, is missing. Do you know where she is? Can you help her find her way home? She may be running out of staples and we need to replenish her supply. Her friends miss her, and we’re one stapler short in the Learning Commons!
Do you know about NPX (New Play Exchange)? As a member of the Kalamazoo College community, you can search the NPX database for plays, people, and organizations. https://libguides.kzoo.edu/npx
The New Play Exchange, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. The New Play Exchange provides an open platform on which writers all over the world can share their work and others can discover that work.
Do you know what dance cards are? The College Archives has some great examples!
The Kalamazoo College Library signed on to a position statement by the Internet Archive supporting Controlled Digital Lending (CDL).
CDL would allow libraries to loan digital versions of print books to patrons. Through CDL, libraries use technical controls to ensure the library circulates the exact number of copies of a specific title it owns, regardless of format, putting controls in place to prevent users from redistributing or copying the digitized version.
Many library patrons look to digital access first, which means that a whole world of research is effectively inaccessible in a meaningful way. Some users are unable to travel to a library because of their remote physical location, economic issues, or homebound limitations. For others, physical access is inefficient for research and learning. Many users with print disabilities are currently required to self-identify disabilities and request special access to digital copies.
We believe CDL would be a step forward in using available technology to make access to materials more convenient, and in some cases, possible.
The library will open at 5pm on Wednesday, February 13 and close at the regular time, 2am.
The Library will remain open regular hours on winter break day (Friday, February 8): 8am-10pm.
Enjoy the day!
Kalamazoo College Library is excited to co-sponsor this event!
When: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Where: Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, 205 Monroe St, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49006
In the 1930’s, the United States formally institutionalized the policy of redlining to divide American cities into color-coded areas controlling which groups had access to housing and financial services. Dr. Chris Gilliard presents digital redlining as “the modern equivalent of this historical form of societal division; it is the creation and maintenance of technological policies, practices, pedagogy, and investment decisions that enforce class boundaries and discriminate against specific groups.”
Dr Gilliard’s presentation encourages us to consider digital redlining as a verb, an active force that can “reinforce existing class structures.” Often tied to the logic of surveillance capitalism, boundaries created by digital redlining are real and consequential. They can dictate who has access to necessary online resources and determine whose digital data can be extracted and exploited. One charge of academic institutions is to consider how digital redlining, predictive analytics, and other educational technology restricts students’ freedom, compromises their privacy, and heightens their vulnerability.
Biography:
Chris Gilliard is a Professor of English and Rhetoric at Macomb Community College. His research focuses on privacy, institutional tech policy, digital redlining, and the re-inventions of discriminatory practices through data mining and algorithmic decision-making, especially as these apply to college students. His work has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Educause, Hybrid Pedagogy, b2o, and elsewhere.
Partners:
Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership (ACSJL), Kalamazoo College Library/Division of Information Services, Kalamazoo College Department of Mathematics, Kalamazoo College Department of Computer Science
This event is free and open to the public; however, an RSVP is required. A vegetarian/vegan dinner will be provided.
Dinner is served at 5:30 and the program starts at 6PM.
Please RSVP to acsjl@kzoo.edu.
