MeL User Survey - Please Participate!

MeL is the Michigan Electronic Library, and the Kalamazoo College Library participates in many of the resources and services that MeL offers, including MeLCat and several indexes and full text databases. Your thoughts are important to us, so please complete the MeL
User Survey!

In an effort to continue improving MeL resources including MeLCat
so libraries and Michigan residents get the most benefit from the program, the Library of Michigan has contracted with EPIC MRA
to do a study on the Michigan eLibrary.

The study includes a phone survey to the general public, an online questionnaire for library administrators and staff, and an online questionnaire for the public. The online survey link is below.

Library User Survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=2KHXTR5pJFQYk_2biMlqRt9Q_3d_3d

Please respond to the library online survey. We need to hear from as many library staff and library users - public library patrons, teachers, university students and faculty, K-12 students - as possible.

The surveys and data analysis will be done this fall and the results will be available this winter. Thank you for your participation!

Library Classrooms - Check out or Reserve...

Want to use a Library Classroom in the evening or on a weekend?

To Check Out a Library Classroom:

The Library Classrooms may be checked out on a first come,
first served basis.

Classrooms may be checked out between 5:00pm and 9:00pm,
Monday - Friday, and all library hours Saturday and Sunday.
Please come to the Circulation Desk to check out a Library Classroom.

To Reserve a Library Classroom:

To Reserve a Library Classroom, contact Carol Kennedy in the
Fine Arts office (269 337 7047 or carolk@kzoo.edu) between
7:30am-4:30pm, Monday – Friday.

You must make the reservation before 12:00pm noon on the day you would like to use the classroom, and before 12:00pm noon on Friday for use on a weekend.

Lost Something in the Library?

A variety of items found in the library are at the Library Circulation Desk. Please look there for anything you may have misplaced in
the Library.

All unclaimed items will be recycled or discarded at the end of
the quarter.

Daylight Saving Time Ends Sunday November 1st

This Sunday November 1st Daylight Saving Time ends at 2:00 a.m.
Set your clocks back on hour, and enjoy the extra rest!

Official U.S. Time:
http://www.time.gov/

More on Daylight Saving Time from the US Naval Oceanography Portal:
http://bit.ly/1qS4g7

Homecoming Fun

It's Homecoming weekend at Kalamazoo College!



From the College Archives, here's a photograph of members of the men's cross country team at Homecoming, 1993.

How to Reserve a Library Classroom

Want to use a Library Classroom in the evening or on a weekend?

To Reserve a Library Classroom, contact Carol Kennedy in the
Fine Arts office (269 337 7047 or carolk@kzoo.edu) between
7:30am-4:30pm, Monday – Friday.

You must make the reservation before 12:00pm noon on the day you would like to use the classroom, and before 12:00pm noon on Friday for use on a weekend.

The Nobel Prize

To learn more about the Nobel Prize and prize winners, see:

http://nobelprize.org/

Rare Book Room Exhibit: The French Connection

The A.M. Todd Rare Book Room presents "The French Connection."

Exhibit dates: September 21st - November 24th, 2009
(exhibit closed September 29th - October 8th)

Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. and
by appointment.

For more information, contact Paul Smithson at
smithson@kzoo.edu or 269 337-7147.



For more information on the A.M. Todd Rare Book Room:
http://www.kzoo.edu/is/library/rarebook/index.html

Seniors! Extended Library Book Loans for SIP work

Seniors, Don't Get Fined!

Seniors working on their SIP may request extended loan periods for books checked out from the K College Library. Extended Loan periods are not granted for overdue books; students must request extended SIP loan periods before materials are due.

Loan periods may be extended for materials owned by K College Library only. Extended loan periods do not apply to materials borrowed from MeLCat or Interlibrary Loan.

Please contact Mary Griswold at griswold@kzoo.edu or 269 337 5731.

How many banned books have you read?

Have you ever wondered where challenges to books in the United States actually occur? A new book censorship map illustrates that censorship efforts take place all across the country.

The American Library Association has named September 26th - October 3rd as Banned Books week. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this democratic freedom for granted.

According to the ALA there were at least 513 challenges to books in schools and libraries in the United States in 2008. But the total is far larger, as most cases are never reported.

A list of classic books that have been challenged can be found here.

Reading Together 2010: "Snow Falling on Cedars"

The Kalamazoo Public Library community reading program, Reading Together, has selected David Guterson’s New York Times best-seller Snow Falling on Cedars as the 2010 Reading Together book.

Reading Together book discussions and a wide variety of special events will take place in March and April of 2010. Author Guterson will visit Kalamazoo on April 14, 2010, during National Library Week, to conclude this year’s program.

About Snow Falling on Cedars

A phenomenal West Coast bestseller, winner of a 1995 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the 1996 American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, the enthralling novel Snow Falling on Cedars is at once a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, the story of a doomed love affair, and a stirring meditation on place, prejudice, and justice.

The Reading Together website will be updated with events soon.
For more information, see http://www.kpl.gov/reading-together-next.aspx

Follow Reading Together on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kalamazoo-MI/Reading-Together-at-Kalamazoo-Public-Library/34155158740

Twenty Years Ago...

Ariadne looked like this!



The text at the top of the screen says "As Ariadne helped Theseus escape the labyrinth in Crete, so may this online catalog help guide you through the maze of information resources."