Library Food Policy

PLEASE DO NOT EAT MEALS IN THE LIBRARY!

Food is limited to snack or wrapped items that are consumed individually. Group meals or open plates of food (such as doughnuts, pizza, subs, or take-out) are allowed in the Biggby's area ONLY.

For more information on the Library Food Policy, see:
http://www.kzoo.edu/is/connections/2008/03/food-and-drink-policy.html

For the complete Food Policy, see:
http://www.kzoo.edu/is/library/policies/food.html

Thank You!

Rare Book Room Exhibit: Napoleon's Egypt

The A.M. Todd Rare Book Room presents "Napoleon's Egypt."

Exhibit dates: March 30th - April 10th, April 27th - May 15th, and
May 26th - June 5th, 2009
Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
and by appointment.

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




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

Library Book Loan Periods for Senior SIPs

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. Materials borrowed from MeLCat or Interlibrary Loan cannot be granted extended loan periods.

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

New York Times Subscriptions for K College

Personal subscriptions to the New York Times are available to Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff at a discount through Benson Distribution. Subscriptions for Spring Quarter start on Monday March 30th and go through Friday June 5th, with no delivery on Memorial Day, Monday May 25th. Subscriptions are for Monday through Friday, and do not include Saturday or Sunday.

If you would like to subscribe, please complete the subscription form and include payment by check. Mail it to:

Benson Distribution, Inc.
Christine Benson
3605 South Burdick, Bldg. 2
Kalamazoo, MI 49001

The subscription form is available as a PDF at this link. You will need to enter your knet username and password to open the file.

http://www.kzoo.edu/reserves/nytimes/nytspring09.pdf

Women's History Month: Primary Sources in American Women's History

"Discovering American Women's History Online" provides access to about 400 digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. Browse options include subject (160+ entries), place (by US state), time period, and type of primary source. Users may search by keyword in the search box or may combine searches of different fields in the advanced search.

Access this database at:
http://library.mtsu.edu/digitalprojects/womenshistory.php

Site created by Ken Middleton, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University

Spring Break Library Hours

Library Hours for Spring Break, March 21st - March 29th, 2009

Monday - Friday	8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday	CLOSED
Sunday	CLOSED

The Library will begin regular hours on Monday March 30th.

Have a wonderful break!

Women's History Month: Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson, an unassuming biologist and author, is proof of the difference one person can make. Called by many the "mother of the modern environmental movement," Carson was an unlikely hero. An employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, she wrote several well received books, most notably The Sea Around Us (1951) which became a national best seller. However, the 1962 publication of Silent Spring, which first brought the dangers of indiscriminate pesticide use to worldwide attention, created a public sensation. Attacked by the chemical industry, called a communist and "hysterical female", Carson stood her ground. CBS News folled with an hour long special, "The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson," which spread the book's message even further.

Carson died of cancer in 1964, one month before President Johnson signed a bill tightening control over the sale of pesticides. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.

For more information on Rachel Carson, see:

Websites:

Library of Congress: Rachel Carson selected reading list In observance of the 100th anniversary of Carson's birth in 2007, this bibliography lists books and articles available at the Library of Congress authored by and about Miss Carson, in addition to internet resources.

Bill Moyers Journal episode on Carson The program looks at Rachel Carson and the impact of her book Silent Spring.

The Rachel Carson homestead. The homestead was formed in 1975 to preserve and restore this National Register historic site and to offer education programs which advance Rachel Carson's environmental ethic.

rachelcarson.org Supports the life and legacy of Rachel Carson.

Winter 2009 Finals Week Library Hours

Finals Week, Monday March 16th - Friday March 20th, 2009

Monday - Wednesday, Mar. 16th - Mar. 18th	8:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
Thursday Mar. 19th & Friday, Mar. 20th	8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 21st	CLOSED
Sunday, March 22nd	CLOSED

Good Luck on your exams!

Winter Exam Schedule from the Registrar

Library Lost & Found

The Library has many items in its Lost and Found, including jackets, gloves and scarves, coffee mugs, notebooks, and more.
We have several cell phones and a few flash drives as well. Please stop by the Circulation Desk and see if your misplaced item is here.

All items in the Library Lost & Found will be discarded after
Finals Week.

Women's History Month: Caroline Bartlett Crane, Kalamazoo Reformer

Caroline Bartlett Crane (1858-1935)

Social reformer, Unitarian minister, journalist, suffragist, ecofeminist -- Caroline Bartlett Crane was indeed ahead of her time. A prominent social activist and minister in Kalamazoo, Crane began her career as a journalist for the Chicago Telegraph in the 1880s and went on to write for newspapers in Minnesota and Wisconsin. However, Crane's dream was to become a minister. She was unable to attend seminary at the time, but with the encouragement of minister friends, Crane began working for the Sioux Falls Unity Church in South Dakota and started a church school for them. By 1889, Crane resigned to pursue a full time theological education at the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Crane came to Kalamazoo to preach for the Unitarian congregation here while attending school in Chicago (can you imagine the commute in the 1890s?). She designed a new building for the congregation and instituted social programs such as a free public kindergarten, a women's gymnasium, and a literary group for African Americans called the Frederick Douglass Club. Crane also served on the board of the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, and in 1891 she delivered the closing sermon at the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Washington, D.C.

After her marriage to Augustus Warren Crane in 1896, Caroline became a "municipal housekeeper," applying "womanly" domestic skills into the larger social and political sphere. For example, disgusted with sanitary conditions at a local slaughterhouse, Crane helped write and pass meat inspection legislation. Eventually Crane became nationally known for her public health surveys, and personally inspected various cities' water and sewer systems, food supplies, garbage collection systems, street sanitation, and other public works.

In 1924 Crane designed a house that centered on the needs of a mother with an infant. The house, called "Everyman's House," won first place in Herbert Hoover’s "Better Homes of America" campaign. She published a book about the project, Everyman's House, in 1925. The house still stands in Kalamazoo, on Westnedge Avenue across from Crane Park just south of downtown.

For more about Caroline Bartlett Crane, see:

Websites:

• Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection, Everyman's House. Western Michigan University Digital Collections. This digitized collection is a house mix of documents and images about the winning house design conceived and built in Kalamazoo by Caroline Bartlett Crane.
  
  
• Michigan Women's Historical Center and Wall of Fame: Caroline Bartlett Crane. A short biography of Caroline Bartlett Crane.
  
  
• Unitarian Universalist Historical Society: Caroline Bartlett Crane. An in-depth biography of Crane, focusing on her ministerial career.

Books:

• Historic Women of Michigan: A Sesquicentennial Celebration. Edited by Rosalie Riegle Troester. K College Library: K Second Floor, CT3260 .H57 1987
  
  
• Everyman's House, by Caroline Bartlett Crane, with a foreword by Herbert Hoover. K College Library: Offsite Storage, NA7120 .C85
  
  
• Caroline Bartlett Crane and Progressive Reform: Social Housekeeping As Sociology by Linda Rynbrandt. Available from MeLCat.
  
  
• A Just Verdict: The Life of Caroline Bartlett Crane by O'Ryan Rickard. Available from MeLCat.
  
  
• Twentieth Century Municipal Housekeeper: Caroline Bartlett Crane of Kalamazoo, Michigan by M. Sue Wagner. Available from MeLCat.

Articles:

• "The ecofeminist pragmatism of Caroline Bartlett Crane, 1896–1935" by Linda J. Rynbrandt and Mary Jo Deegan. The American Sociologist, Vol. 33, No. 3, 58-68 (September, 2002).
  
  
• "The 'Ladies of the Club' and Caroline Bartlett Crane: Affiliation and Alienation in Progressive Social Reform" by Linda J. Rynbrandt. Gender & Society, Vol. 11, No. 2, 200-214 (1997).
  
  
• "Caroline Bartlett Crane and the History of Sociology: Salvation, Sanitation, and the Social Gospel" by Linda J. Rynbrandt. The American Sociologist, Vol. 29, No. 1, 71-82 (March 1998).

Daylight Saving Time Begins Sunday March 8th

Daylight Saving Time begins this Sunday March 8th at 2:00 a.m.
Set your clocks forward one hour, and get to bed early!

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

More on Daylight Saving Time from the U.S. Naval Observatory:
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/astronomical-information-center/daylight-time

Women's History Month: Emancipated Spirits

Emancipated Spirits: Portraits of Kalamazoo College Women is a book about four Kalamazoo College women written by four Kalamazoo College women.

Featured are Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, for 20 years (1843-63) the head of the female department and a national pioneer in women's education, and Pauline Byrd Johnson '26, the college's first black female student and the first black teacher in the Kalamazoo public schools. Also featured are Frances Diebold, professor of biology, and Nelda K. Balch, professor of theatre and communication arts.

The book was written by Dr. Gail Griffin, professor of English and then coordinator of women's studies, and by three women who were then college seniors--Josephine Csete, Cheryl M. Limer, and Ruth Ann Moerdyk--whose contributions represent their Senior Individualized Projects. The introductory chapter by Dr. Griffin is a look at the history of women's roles in higher education in the American Midwest. Commissioned as a special project for the college's 150th anniversary, the book involved more than a year of research and oral history interviews.

Emancipated Spirits is available in full text online in CACHE, the College's digital repository, and in the Upjohn Library Commons.