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.

Upjohn Library Commons is CLOSED all day and evening on Wednesday, January 30 AND all day and evening on Thursday, January 31.

The Library will close at 4pm on Tuesday, January 29.

We will remain closed all day and evening on Wednesday, January 30.

Hicks Center will be open for study. Please stay warm and safe during this cold snap!

Congratulations to Lisa Ludwinski ’06, author of Sister Pie: The Recipes & Stories of a Big-Hearted Bakery in Detroit, which is included in the 2019 list of Michigan Notable Books!

“With 75 recipes, the Sister Pie cookbook pays homage to Motor City ingenuity and all-American spirit. The granddaughter of two Detroit natives created a little corner pie shop in a former beauty salon on the city’s east side where no one leaves empty handed.  Those who don’t have money in their pockets can simply cash in a prepaid slice from the “pie it forward” clothesline strung across the window.  This unique and fruitful business model is detailed beside tasty recipes.”

Lisa, a theatre arts major at K, was the winner of Comerica Bank’s 2014 Hatch Detroit development grant meant to champion and support independent retail businesses in Detroit through funding, exposure, education, and mentoring.  She opened the Sister Pie bakery and coffee shop at 8066 Kercheval in Detroit’s West Village neighborhood

The Michigan Notable Books list is administered by the Library of Michigan Each year the list features 20 books, published the previous calendar year, which are about or set in Michigan or the Great Lakes region, or are written by a Michigan author. Selections include nonfiction and fiction books that appeal to a variety of audiences and cover various topics and issues close to the hearts of Michigan residents.

Michigan Notable Books is a statewide program designed to pay tribute and draw attention to the many people, places and things that make Michigan life unique.

Visit Lisa and Sister Pie in person or at http://sisterpie.com and friend her on www.Facebook.com/SisterPie.

Due to the inclement weather, the Upjohn Library Commons will close at 11 a.m., Monday, January 28, 2019.

Please be careful this evening as sidewalks and roadways on and around may be slippery.

The Library will remain open regular hours on MLK Day (January 21): 8am-2am.

Enjoy the day!

Did you know that the library has Omnicharge battery chargers for you to check out? Omnicharge batteries are portable charging stations that allow you to plug in and sit in places that don’t have a convenient power source.

Take one to class, to the quad, to your favorite quiet spot in the library! Charge up and stop worrying about plugging in.

Ask for the Omnicharge battery at the Library Circulation Desk. They circulate for four hours.

Explore current and archived issues of the Kalamazoo Gazette with full-color newspaper pages and individual articles, as well as content only published online. Discover information about issues that impact our area, Kalamazoo events through the years, local businesses, and even local residents.

The Library recently implemented a faculty communication survey. Given the feedback, here are some things we are doing:

• The Library will communicate with faculty through direct email, posting information on our website, and meeting one on one or with departments any time.

• Faculty will receive a courtesy notice three days before an item is due, and reminders when the item is 7, 14, and 21 days overdue. The faculty loan period for books is six months with three renewals (total of two  years).

• The new OneSearch does work differently than the old one. Librarians are always available to help you find what you need! Call, email, stop by the library, or we can stop by your office, too.

• You can find a link to Online Journals at K(OJK) under Library >Research Tools. This links to both our online and print holdings. If we don’t have access to an article, OJK will link you to Interlibrary Loan so you can request it.

• Our new system will notify faculty through email when an item you requested for purchase is available. If you have suggestions for purchases, please let us know! You can contact Leslie Burke directly (leslie.burke@kzoo.edu), or suggest a purchase through our website.

• We are working on a way new acquisitions will be featured on our website.

• We will be starting a Library Liaison program,where faculty departments are assigned to a librarian who can be your point of contact.  Of course, you can always contact any of us, but this will ensure that there is one person looking out for you. And we are always available to visit you personally in your office – just contact us and ask!

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We appreciate your investment in the success of your Library!