Updates 

Kennedy Library Hours

• Learn details about Open Hours at https://lib.calpoly.edu/about-and-contact/open-hours/

Alert: Interlibrary Loan 

• On June 1, 2023 Interlibrary Loan will (temporarily) discontinue all options to request tangible items such as books and DVDs.  Requested materials that have been delivered to Kennedy Library and not picked up by June 16^th will be returned to the lending library.  This is necessary to facilitate an efficient move-out and set-up for operations during the renovation. Requests for physical items are expected to resume later in the summer.

E-Reserves

• Electronic versions of textbooks and other course materials can be found using the Course Reserves Search Tool.

Small Equipment for Checkout

• Chargers, adapters, calculators, whiteboard markers, and other small tech items can be checked out at the front desk.

Off Campus Delivery 

• Off-Campus Delivery is available to current students, staff, faculty and emeritus only: Allow 4-6 weeks for requests to be processed and delivered. Items will be shipped via UPS to the address entered when requested. You will receive an email when your item has been shipped. Continental US and Alaska street addresses only. Our apologies, we cannot deliver to Hawaii or international locations. Items can be returned to any CSU campus book drop or shipped using the prepaid UPS return label included in your shipment.

Access to Physical Collections

• The majority of Kennedy Library’s physical collections will be packed and securely held in dark storage for the duration of the renovation project.  A small portion of the physical collection that is frequently used (approximately 10,000-12,000 items) will be relocated and accessible in Crandall Gym, and you may visit Crandall Gym to browse collections and check out books. Crandall Gym will also house new books acquired during the renovation, Good Reads, and physical Course Reserves.  All of these can be checked out.  The Research Help Collection will also be available to consult.  Additional frequently used materials will be stored in the library’s surge space in Building 82 and those materials can be requested and available for pick-up within one business day.
• All physical collections in dark storage will be eligible for request and delivery through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). This option will be displayed in OneSearch beginning in summer 2023 Note: ILL items delivered via ILL cannot be placed on course reserves.
• Kennedy Library understands the faculty need for easy and ongoing access to items in our physical collections for ongoing scholarly/creative and/or curricular use.
• To this end we have a suggested action item for faculty:

If you need materials from the Kennedy Library collection for your own work or wish to place materials on physical course reserves during the next two academic years, please check them out of the library before the end of Spring Quarter, 2023. They will be automatically renewed, and you will have them available for the duration of the renovation.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

• As mentioned above, Kennedy Library is reprogramming the OneSearch catalog software to make all our physical collections in dark storage available from another library through Interlibrary Loan. Library personnel are optimizing the delivery of ILL materials prior to the building closure for the renovation, and this work will continue this spring and summer with further updates coming in fall 2023. You may continue to request materials we do not own through ILL from our international network of lending partners as usual. Again, note that items delivered via ILL cannot be placed on course reserves.

Physical Course Reserves

• Kennedy Library’s physical Course Reserves service will return in fall quarter of the 2023-2024 academic year, and those physical materials will be available for checkout in Crandall Gym. More information will be forthcoming in late spring and summer as we plan for the restart of this important library service.