Phone System Update

Sentinel Technologies has been chosen to implement Cisco's Voice over IP (VoIP) solution for Kalamazoo College. The project team will kick off on July 8. The phone lines will be switched to the new system on a building by building basis; the current plan calls for this to happen between August 22 and September 2. There may be a brief outage to your phone line when the conversion happens. We will post more specific information as soon as it is available. For more information, visit our technology update page at http://campus.kzoo.edu/is/update/phone.htm

Hicks Lab Summer Hours

The Hicks Computer Lab will be open Monday through Friday from 9am - 4pm for current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. The Lab offers Microsoft Office, Internet access, and other lab software. If there are any questions, please feel free to contact Puja Parakh (337-7237) or Peter Zillmann (337-5800).

Academy Street Now Open

Academy Street is now open between Thompson and Bulkley. However, parking is still not allowed on this portion of Academy. Please use caution when walking or driving in this area, as construction on the Library building is still in progress.

New Interlibrary Loan Service

The Library is pleased to announce ILLiad, a new system for interlibrary loan (requesting books and articles that are not available through Kalamazoo College, Western Michigan University, or MeLCat). ILLiad will allow students, faculty, and staff to create, track, and cancel their own interlibrary loan requests online. Users of ILLiad will also receive articles in their ILLiad accounts electronically, in PDF format. We will be implmenting ILLiad later this summer and will keep you updated on our progress.

Jo Ellen Parker from NITLE Comes to Campus

Jo Ellen Parker, Director of the National Institute for Technology and Education (NITLE), visited on June 8, 2005 and gave a talk entitled Interdependence as Strategy: the Kalamazoo-Lake Forest Project.

Read the text of Jo Ellen Parker's talk here (this is a PDF file and requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader).