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10/08/2026

Sip and Flip STUDENT EDITION! See what your friends said about their Wiggins orders and favorite banned books, in honor of Banned Books Week.

Be sure to also check out our banned books display on the glass in the atrium. Add your answers to our questions with sticky notes!

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10/07/2026

Sip & Flip in honor of ! This is the Chalmers staff edition of Sip & Flip. Make sure to keep an eye out for the student version coming soon!

Banned Books Week brings awareness to book challenges and bans across the country. Celebrate the freedom to read and fight book bans! 📚

10/01/2026

October's theme for is Ohio Grows: Food & Farms, so we're bringing you more highlights from our Rural Life Center collections celebrating small family farming in Knox County.

Photos in this collection (which can be found at https://digital.kenyon.edu/familyfarm/) seek to embrace "the daily labor and remarkable beauty that resides in every aspect of this profession, and way of life and landscape."

09/30/2026

Tomorrow! Join us in Oden Hall for a screening of The Librarians Film at 7pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion between librarian Eve Kausch, Visiting Assistant Professor of political science Casey Puerzer, and Sharon Hawkes from Right to Read Ohio.

This event is open to the public. Free visitor parking is available in the College Drive parking garage.

09/16/2026

Join us Thursday 10/1 at 7-9pm in Oden Hall for a screening of The Librarians Film in honor of !

What's your favorite banned book that wasn't included in this reel?

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of American Democracy at Kenyon College

09/01/2026

Did you know that Kenyon College and The Ohio State University used to be football rivals?

In fact, before OSU faced off University of Michigan at their big Thanksgiving weekend game, it would often be played against Kenyon - and they lost to us more than once!

This poster is from 1929 and is helping us celebrate September's theme of Ohio Plays: Sports & Wellness.

Ohio State Football
Kenyon College Athletics

08/01/2026

While we marked the official anniversary of last month, the state of Ohio's monthly themes aren't over yet! August's theme is Ohio Goes to the Fair: the Ohio State Fair, County Fairs & Festivals.

Last summer, our college archives received a donation of photographs by Dan Younger (1953-2016), former director of the Knox County Historical Society and former director of the Olin Art Gallery at Kenyon College. Included in this donation was Younger's project documenting Knox County farm life and county fairs. As a longtime resident of central Ohio, Younger sought to bring a respectful lens to his documentation of county fairs, rather than an "outsider's view" that can be typical of the fine art tradition of county fair photography.

Photos in this collage are from 1994, 1995, 2013 and 2014. View the whole collection here: https://digital.kenyon.edu/rurallife_tcfp/

07/01/2026

As we enter the month of the official anniversary of , the State of Ohio is celebrating Ohio Gathers: Statewide Homecoming & Picnics. This photo was taken in the 1880s or 1890s by members of the Kenyon Camera Club, an organization of the Kenyon Military Academy, which was a preparatory school for boys in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Gambier. Women were not admitted to the Military Academy or Kenyon at this time, so it is likely that the young women the students are picnicking with are affiliated with the Harcourt School for Girls, a secondary school for girls affiliated with Kenyon during the same time period.

What will you be doing to mark the ? Will you be going to one of the statewide picnics in Ohio? Perhaps reflecting on things you learned in your coursework at Kenyon about the legacy of this country, however complicated? Comment below your plans, or a favorite book or article that taught you something about this country's 250 year history.

See this photo and more from the Kenyon Camera Club at https://digital.kenyon.edu/exhibit/kenyon-camera-club-collection/

06/01/2026

In June we celebrate through the theme Ohio Outdoors: Exploring Ohio's Natural Resources. Pictured here is Honey Run Falls, just east of campus, photographed by the Kenyon Camera Club circa 1895 (top), and by library staff in 2026 (bottom).

Have you ever been to Honey Run Falls?

See the top photo and others taken by the Kenyon Camera Club in the late 1890s on Digital Kenyon: https://digital.kenyon.edu/exhibit/kenyon-camera-club-collection/

05/20/2026

Chalmers Library will be open the following hours this weekend for Reunion:

Thursday 5/21: 7am-6pm
Friday 5/22: 7am-6pm
Saturday 5/23: 7am-6pm
Sunday 5/24: Closed
Monday 5/25: Closed

Special Collections & Archives (located on Chalmers lower level 1) will be open Thursday & Friday from 9am-12pm and 1pm-4pm. We will have the Matriculation Books out for viewing and signing.

For materials from all celebrated class years, stop by the Special Collections & Archives open house on Saturday, 5/23 from 10am-12pm in Chalmers L150! We will have materials from class years ending in 6 and 1 as well as other highlights from our collection. We hope to see you there!

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Gambier, OH
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