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Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 1:20pm

Authors visit May 4 Visitors Center to discuss how Devo got its start on Kent State’s campus and how band members were affected by May 4

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - 10:11am

In her new role, the Akron-area native will primarily handle the preservation of university history specifically, along with working with May 4 materials, managing records and preserving permanent files.

Thursday, October 12, 2023 - 9:23am

Grant allows for purchase of high-resolution scanner for preservation work

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 9:46am

Kent State University Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of Kristin Silvestro as the new university archivist.

Kristin Silvestro

Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 10:16am

Miller was one of the four students killed on May 4, 1970, on the Kent Campus. He is the fallen student who Mary Ann Vecchio is kneeling near in the most well-known photo from that tragic day. 

Tuesday, August 29, 2023 - 1:40pm

University Libraries is proud to name the awardees of our first set of Affordable Learning Materials (ALM) and Open Educational Resources (OER) Incentive Grants. These grants, funded by the Provost’s Office, are to provide incentive to faculty to adopt/adapt, or write their own OER. OER are openly-licensed textbooks and accompanying materials that are free of charge to students. Each awardee has been paired with an assigned Subject Librarian to assist with research and other informational needs.

Thursday, August 17, 2023 - 1:45pm

Butler, 74, has spent a year re-creating the first kit he owned in high school, the same drums that the FBI impounded following the National Guard shootings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 1:41pm

The cloud-based SaaS has demonstrated successes with complex consortial systems and will achieve OhioLINK’s user-centered vision.

Thursday, July 6, 2023 - 2:46pm

After a national search, Alison Caplan has been selected as the new director of Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center, a museum that tells the story of the shootings at Kent State on May 4, 1970, set in the context of the 1960s. Caplan currently serves as director of education at the National First Ladies’ Library in Canton, Ohio. She will begin at Kent State on July 18.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 9:50am

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