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Dean’s Advisory Council

The Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) brings together a group of industry and community leaders who serve as individual and collective advocates for Cal Poly, and for the Robert E. Kennedy Library, and who provide advice to the library staff in…

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Ways to give

Make your gift online Give by mail Use the Kennedy Library giving form to mail your gift. Library Services, Administrative Office Building 35, Room 204 Cal Poly State University 1 Grand Avenue San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0600 Make your check out to:…

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Active Learning Lab

The library’s Active Learning Lab removes barriers to learning, and inspires both students and instructors to innovate. Active learning refers to instruction models that place responsibility for learning on the learners by promoting active student participation and engagement. At at…

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Surveys

Thank you students! Thanks to SLAC and to the hundreds of students who take our surveys and who make hundreds of useful comments. The library loves hearing from students and we appreciate all your input. It will make Kennedy Library…

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Tragic Flight: the 1960 football team plane crash

The news arrived on the last Saturday of October, 1960, desolating families, stunning the campus, and shocking the country. The Arctic-Pacific chartered plane carrying the Cal Poly Mustang football team had crashed and burned on takeoff at the Toledo, Ohio,…

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In Memory: Robert E. Kennedy

A Tribute: 1915-2010 From college professor to librarian to public relations director to university president to president emeritus, Dr. Kennedy served Cal Poly for 70 years. More about Dr. Kennedy Robert E. Kennedy (Cal Poly Presidents) Robert E. Kennedy Biography (Library History)…

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University Archives Collections

University Archives contains records about the history, growth and development of Cal Poly. The holdings chronicle the university from its beginning as a vocational school in 1903 to the present. Types of records include master plans of the campus, annual…

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In Memory: Mary Kennedy


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