Upjohn Library Commons serves its users as a center of campus activity, news, and academic life. Library bulletin boards provide an avenue for Kalamazoo College community members to advertise events and other announcements. Hicks Center allows tabling by students and other groups.
For the purpose of this document, all public notices, posters, flyers, bulletins, advertisements, and other miscellaneous announcements will be called “postings.”
For the purpose of this document, “tabling” refers to setting up a table, with or without chairs, in the Upjohn Library Commons building separate from the spaces in which tables and chairs are normally situated.
Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to establish the procedures and rules by which postings will be displayed in Upjohn Library Commons (which will be applied without discrimination and in the best interests of all of the building’s users), to establish a policy on tabling (informational and otherwise), and to preserve library materials and facilities.
Tabling
Tabling is not permitted within Upjohn Library Commons.
Postings Display Areas
Postings are permitted only:
- on the bulletin board in Book Club Café on the first floor
- on the bulletin board in the Copy Center on the first floor, and
- on the bulletin board across from the elevator on the third floor
Postings are not permitted anywhere other than bulletin boards, including (but not limited to) the exterior of the building, in restrooms, on equipment or materials, on security gates, on windows, on walls, or on doors in the Upjohn Library Commons building.
Content
Postings should be related to the mission of and activities of Kalamazoo College, including signs, posters, and announcements issued by Kalamazoo College departments, offices, or student organizations. All postings must meet existing State and Federal laws on obscenity, libel, defamation of character or invasion of privacy. Postings of unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, and/or obscene material will be removed. Posting material constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, otherwise violate any local, provincial, national or international law, including without limitation, export control laws and regulations
will be removed.
Display of any posting does not constitute an endorsement by the College or Information Services.
Approval
Postings must be approved and stamped by the Student Development Office or posted with the permission of the Library Director.
Length of Display
Individuals or groups who have posted items to Upjohn Library Commons bulletin boards are responsible for their timely removal.
Unauthorized and outdated postings will be removed by Information Services staff. Most postings are generally removed at the end of each quarter. Multiple copies of postings which meet the above criteria for content may be left for display on bulletin boards as space allows.
Information Services reserves the right to remove and discard any posting at any time.
Information Services cannot assume responsibility for the preservation, protection, or possible damage or theft of any item displayed on or near bulletin boards. Items displayed in Upjohn Library Commons are done so at the owner’s risk.
Policy updated July 27, 2018