Robert E. Kennedy Library
Archived News (Pre-July 2006)
Library now uses portal authentication for off-campus database authentication
Effective June 18th, the library will be changing the way users authenticate themselves when connecting from off-campus to access the library's electronic resources. On-campus access will not change. June 12th, 2006
Michael D. Miller appointed Dean of Kennedy Library
A veteran librarian known for supporting research and instruction in higher education through the innovative use of emerging technologies has been appointed dean of library services at Cal Poly. May 26th, 2006
Search PolyCat at anytime from your Firefox browser
06/20/06. Library users who run the Firefox Web browser can now search PolyCAT directly from their Firefox Search Bar.
Authentication from off-campus due to change Sunday June 18th, 2006
06/12/06. Library is switching to "portal authentication".
04/07/06. Try the Proquest Historical Newspapers database through April 28, 2006.
New Database for City & Regional Planning
03/24/06. Try the Urban Studies & Planning database through April 14, 2006.
Cal Poly Names Two Research Scholars for New Program
02/20/06. Two Research Scholars in Residence are the first appointees in a new university program designed to encourage and support faculty research and professional development.
01/03/06. PolySearch interface and functional improvements were made based on research conducted by Cal Poly computer science students.
Cal Poly Learning Commons Ribbon Cutting
11/14/05. Kennedy Library, ITS, and Center for Teaching and Learning team up to launch innovative environment and services for students and faculty.
Preface: The Cal Poly Shared Reading Program
2005. Kennedy Library is pleased to once again sponsor Preface and SLO City Reads: The Cal Poly Shared Reading Program.
Cal Poly Photo Exhibit Documents Immigrant Youth Living on Central Coast
05/23/05. The exhibit, titled "With Our Own Eyes/Con Nuestros Propios Ojos," is a project of the Latino Outreach Council of San Luis Obispo. The traveling exhibit focuses on the P'urepecha indigenous youth of San Juan Nuevo Parangaricutiro in the Michoacan state of Mexico, who now live in Paso Robles. It provides a bi-national perspective of this community through the eyes of its youth.
Cal Poly awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
Kennedy Library's Special Collections Department was awarded $249,000 from the NEH to arrange, describe, and create electronic finding aids for their architectural archives on California architect Julia Morgan (1872 – 1957). Original architectural plans, drawings, sketches, photographs, transparencies, personal papers, journals, project files, and correspondence from Morgan's life and career are part of the project.