Kalamazoo College Library now has access to Kanopy BASE, a licensed collection of films, documentaries, and episodics curated for academic institutions. All you need is your Kalamazoo College login!

Kanopy provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, tv series, and more. The collection of films support a wide variety of subject areas including the arts, media studies, politics, diversity, equity and inclusion, LGBTQAI+, psychology, business, sciences, health, education, history

Looking for more films? Look first in these film resources: AVON, Kanopy, Docuseek, or Digitalia Film Library.

Kalamazoo College library users may see some of their MeLCat loans with longer loan periods!

Kalamazoo College faculty, students, and staff requesting a book from an academic library via MeLCat now have a 90-day loan period, with the option to renew for an additional 30 days. For books from other libraries, regular loan rules (28 days with a 28 day renewal) continue to apply.

Please note that the Kalamazoo College Library has no control over the origin of the books in MeLCat requests. While the system does prioritize long loan lending exchanges, libraries cannot guarantee which type of loan patrons will receive. Library staff also cannot manually modify due dates for MeLCat items.

The Kalamazoo College library team spearheaded this change for all private academic libraries in MeLCat. We are happy to help you make the most of this valuable resource-sharing network!

Celebrate the United States Constitution!

To mark this year’s Constitution Day (Sunday, 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.

Did you know that the Library has many textbooks available on Reserve? We may have the book you need for your class — check our catalog and find out!

Reserve materials circulate for two hours at a time – just enough for you to get your reading done and share with others. Questions? Let us know how we can help! Email us at library@kzoo.edu.

Last week the Library launched an update to our website! Many thanks to the Web Services team and to faculty, staff, and student participants in our usability study. You helped us improve the look, feel, and functionality of the site, and we hope the redesigned site will help you find what you need more easily.

We will continue to tweak pages here and there, so if you see something that isn’t working, please contact library@kzoo.edu.

The Library’s virtual book display on Black Joy contains links to books, ebooks, videos, and other resources on music, dance, poetry, cooking, and more! Check out our materials online through this link:

Black Joy