The Upjohn Library Commons building will be CLOSED during Winter Break, but some services will be available through December 23.

Current employees and Board of Trustee members are invited join us virtually in the second #ARRK event on November 17, 2020 from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Bruce Mills will lead a discussion of James Baldwin’s “In Search of a Majority” and “Notes of a Native Son.”

The Kalamazoo College Archives invites students, faculty, and staff) to document their personal experiences during the COVID-19 crisis. Daily life under a global pandemic will be an important research topic in the future and the College Archives seeks to preserve these stories.

Reference Librarians are available to help you! Here’s how to contact us.

Textbook costs are skyrocketing, and many students have trouble accessing the readings they need for class. Open access texts (often called Open Educational Resources, or OER) are free to read online, often free to download, and may be available as a low cost print format option. Many open access texts have a Creative Commons license […]

Current employees and Board of Trustee members are invited join us virtually in the second #ARRK event on October 20, 2020 from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Lisa Brock will lead a discussion of Chapter 1 from Beverly Daniel Tatums’ Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

In June, a student sit-in protest asked that the college begin discussions about its own history with racism, specifically dealing with minstrel shows and a fire in the dorm room of a Black student in 1998. The college’s digital archive, CACHE, now has photos and documents related to both these events.

Do you need help finding a book, film, or other resources for your class? Having problems accessing library databases or an article or eBook? Any questions about library services? Here are five ways we can help!

Current employees and Trustees are invited to the first #ARRK event on September 29, 2020 from 4-5 pm in the #ARRK Meeting space in MS Teams. Natalia Carvalho-Pinto and Francisco Villegas will lead a discussion of Chapter 3 from Beverly Daniel Tatums’ Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?