Category: Events

Therapy Dogs in the Library 10th Week

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Photo of two therapy dogs

Relax and relieve some stress by spending a few minutes petting a furry animal friend! Therapy dogs will visit the Kalamazoo College Library lobby on Thursday, June 5 from 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome.

Date: Thursday, June 5
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Upjohn Library Commons Lobby

Spring Printing Press Pop-Up

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Join us on Wednesday, April 30 from 12:30pm to 3:30pm for a spring printing press pop-up n celebration of May Day and the warm weather arriving.

Stop by the Upjohn Library Commons Lobby to get your own hand-printed card! The Kalamazoo College’s A.M. Todd Rare Book Room is bringing out its small printing press for students to hand press cards with a selected quote about May.

Valentine’s Printing Press Pop-Up

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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!

Retirement Celebration for Leslie Burke TODAY!

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Leslie Burke

Leslie Burke, the Library’s intrepid Collection Services Librarian, is retiring at the beginning of July!  Faculty, students, and staff are invited to join us on Wednesday, June 12 for a celebration in her honor. We hope to see you there!

Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Book Club, Upjohn Library Commons

Please join us for hearty hors d’oeuvres, cake, and refreshments.

Therapy Dogs in the Library 10th Week!

Posted on by Stacy Nowicki
Photo of a therapy dog

Relax and relieve some stress by spending a few minutes petting a furry animal friend! Therapy dogs will visit the Kalamazoo College Library lobby on Thursday, June 6 from 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome.

Date: Thursday, June 6
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Upjohn Library Commons Lobby

Get Your Free Copy of the 2024 Reading Together Selection: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Posted on by Stacy Nowicki
Book cover of Yellowface

The Kalamazoo Public Library sponsors Reading Together, a community reading series for the Kalamazoo area. This year’s selection is Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. Good news: YOU can get a free copy of the book!

The KPL Mobile Library will be on campus on Wednesday, January 31 in front of Hoben Hall from 11:00am to 12:00pm. Stop by and get your free copy of Yellowface, and follow Reading Together to find out what events will be happening (including the author’s visit in March!).

AntiRacism Reading Knook January 2024 Discussion

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Faculty and staff and invited to come chat with Candace Combs about schools, learning English, and one child’s stories of life as a refugee in Oklahoma. We’ll center our discussion on the beginning of Daniel Nayeri’s hilarious YA book Everything Sad is Untrue. Please feel free to attend even if you haven’t finished the selection.

When: Tuesday, January 16 from 11:30am – 12:30pm
Where: Olmsted Room, Mandelle Hall and the #ARRK Team site.

You can find a PDF of the reading on the #ARRK Team site.

If you would like to join us in person for lunch, we’ve ordered some pizza.

For more information on the history of ARRK please visit the Inclusive Excellence website.

The AntiRacism Reading Knook (ARRK) is a collaboration between the K College library staff and our Inclusive Excellence (KCIE) leadership team. This initiative is NOT a book club, but seeks to facilitate campus-wide engagement with the books in the KCIE Reading for Change book collection. This collection was created to encourage learning about and facilitate greater access to antiracism information to all members of the campus community.

ARRK aims to:

  1. reduce barrier to entry into reading antiracism books,
  2. identify and highlight campus facilitators with experience teaching and/or disciplinary expertise who can provide context and guide discussions of specific texts,
  3. foster broader relationships among faculty and staff, and thus
  4. build greater capacity for an inclusive campus through sustained and focused engagement with shared texts.
  5. help catalyze members of the campus to engage in small group discussions of entire books in the collection (self-organized book clubs, if you will).

For further information on #ARRK see the KCIE AntiRacism Reading Knook page. To volunteer to lead one of these sessions complete the ARRK Discussion Leader application.