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The official page of San José State University’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. San José State University’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Library supports the University’s guiding principles of Spartan Pride, Unbounded Learning, Helping and Caring, Agility through Technology, and 21st Century Spaces by facilitating student learning and success, faculty teaching, research and scholarship, community engagement and creative uses of technology.

06/16/2026

😎Enjoy summer romance discovering your next love. King Library is your Love Island! 🌴

📚Books, music, art are ready for you to pull them for a chat. Zero intellectual gap. 💯

🎙️Need tech, 🌬️air conditioning, or a 🪑comfy escape from roommates?

Your Library is here for you this summer!☀️

06/15/2026

🎉The SJSU commencement ceremonies have concluded, but we aren't done celebrating our bright Spartans as they close this chapter of their SJSU journey.🤩

💌 Read the reflections of the Library Love Letter giveaway winner, 🎓Ashley Bonfoey, '26 Counseling and Guidance, of why she loves our King Library and what made it an essential part of her academic life.

🗣️"As a commuter graduate student who only had evening classes, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library quickly became one of the few buildings that I frequented and could point out on campus. My friends and I spent long hours reading textbooks, studying for tests, writing papers, and recording counseling sessions in these same study rooms, making the library one of my favorite places on campus to lock in and get work done. I appreciate how the SJSU library has the space to host a variety of events that are open to the community, with one of my favorites being the informative Trans Resource Fair hosted by TransTalk and SJSU."💙💛

🎙️"I hold a lot of nostalgia for this library, as I used to read picture books in the Children's Room when I was in elementary school, and it makes me happy to see families visiting this library alongside our student body." - said Ashley.

King Library is special for that reason 🫶! From picture books to textbooks, we are the gateway for future Spartans growing up and glowing up!💅

We are so happy to have been part of your journey and are excited to read your next chapter! Don't forget, the King Library is here for you beyond!🤗

06/12/2026

📊Join information scientist, academic and SJSU King Library Data Librarian Dykee Gorrell for, "Reframing Data: Teaching Ethical Data Practices Centering the Experiences of Enslaved Africans and Their Descendants."💭

✏️Drawing on critical data studies, Black Studies, and archival recovery projects, the session will model activities that compel reflection on data provenance, power, and positionality.

💅Participants will examine how to design learning experiences that tether technical data management skills (metadata, documentation, storage) to ethical imperatives of representation, consent, and historical accountability.💯

Attendees will leave with new strategies that can be used to not only reflect on the past but shape our goals for the future.🤩

📌Details :
📆Wednesday, June 17th
⏰1:00pm - 2:00pm
💻Online via Zoom

Register using the link below!
https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QszFn0tRTlyM18dPa9ft4Q

06/04/2026

Notice: The SJSU King Library is closed for the rest of the day.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding as we work through this situation. Updates will be shared as they become available.

Thank you for your cooperation.

06/03/2026

🎉 What an outstanding day of learning, collaboration, and connection at the 2026 CSU Libraries Conference on June 2, 2026! tiny.sjsu.edu/csu-libraries

❤️ 600+ CSU registrants
🌎 200+ external registrants
🫶 10 amazing sponsors
🎤 60+ total sessions
🪩 12 SJSU presenters 💛💙

💫 Whether virtually, as a group at your home library, or at one of our host libraries (Fullerton and East Bay), that you for showing up and getting involved! 🤝

💌 For those who wish to revisit the content, the conference agenda, complete with session descriptions, is still available on our website. Recordings should be available soon! ⏲️

🎉Thank you to CSU Council of Library Deans (COLD), the planning committee, presenters, and volunteers, and big kudos to Michael Stephens for starting us off with his opening remarks and encouraging us with the timeless message about the important role libraries play in creating community. 😎

Thank you to all who attended and supported your colleagues. Finally, a big thank you to our sponsors for their generous support. 👏

🪩Platinum: Sage
🎙️Silver: Clarivate | EBSCO | Elsevier
🥁Supporter: CARL | IEEE | JSTOR | Katina/Annual Reviews | SPIE

This conference was truly a testament to the strength of our CSU Libraries. 💪

If you attended, let us know by sharing your favorite emoji! 📚💬

06/01/2026

🧭Learn library best practices and clock some professional development tomorrow during the CSU Libraries Conference, June 2nd, 2026 from 9:15 - 4 p.m. 💫

🫶ALL CSU Libraries are participating and ALL sessions will be virtual via Zoom. Register and pick the sessions that peak your curiosity. Open to ALL! We are a very inclusive bunch!
tiny.sjsu.edu/csu-libraries 🫶

To 🤖AI to 🦓Class Z - there will be over 🤩 60 opportunities (presentations, lightning talks, poster sessions, discussions, workshops) to learn something inspiring and new! Learn from peers and leave with new ideas and connections to make it happen! 😎

Join 12 of SJSU's amazing SJSU King Library's librarians and staff members share their 🌎 pearls of wisdom on AI, community outreach, social media learning lessons, predatory journals and more! 👀

🚨Don't miss your opportunity to start the summer fresh while building community to be prepared for the next semester! 🪩

🔗Register, check out the schedule and see our amazing sponsors that help make this transformational conference happen. ❤️ libraries.calstate.edu/conference/

05/27/2026

Congratulations to San José State University Director of Special Collections and Archives, Craig S. Simpson, for his newly published book, "Television Is Where You Find It" (Rutgers University Press 2026), a critical study examining feature filmmakers who worked in television between 1955 and 1990.

Through ten compelling case studies featuring directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Orson Welles, Ida Lupino, Melvin Van Peebles, and Martin Scorsese, Simpson explores how these filmmakers transformed the language of television through innovation, artistry, and cinematic vision.

Film scholar James Naremore praised the book as “a rare joy—informative, critically important, and pleasurable.”

05/26/2026

🚨Calling all library or information professionals! 🚨

All are welcome to join us virtually for the 2026 CSU Libraries Conference!🫶

RSVP at tiny.sjsu.edu/buildcommunity

This year’s theme, Building Community, brings together library faculty, staff, and colleagues from across the CSU system for a day of sharing ideas, connecting with one another, and highlighting the incredible work happening across our campuses.

🎤Sessions will cover topics including AI and emerging technologies, makerspaces, archives and preservation, outreach and student success, collaborative projects, and more — with presentations, panels, lightning talks, workshops, and poster sessions offered throughout the day.

🪩We hope you’ll join us online and be part of the conversation! Be sure to register by 5/29.

Special thanks to our conference sponsors for helping make this event possible 💙

05/22/2026

You may recognize our graduating 📱Social Media Student Assistant, Debbie 26' Communication Studies from our social media page and events she's covered.📽️ Now, we cover her time here at our King Library.

"I've always wanted to work in a space where I can be creative but also collaborate with people I can bounce off ideas from! I feel like going from customer service and care giving jobs to social media was a huge jump but I felt absolutely welcomed and encouraged to explore with my ideas."🤔💭

Through all the content she's been a part of, there are definitely some that have resonated with her more than others. "One of my favorite reels that I collaborated on with Alex was on a trend I was really hoping to do and didn't think we would get around to was the 'We're the MLK Library, of course we have....' and it segued into some of the unique things I wanted to show of our library! Other ones I had a lot of fun collaborating on was our Halloween reel🎃 and one where we gave people a glimpse into some of Mel Chin's art that are scattered around our library! I hope people learned a lot from them and enjoyed watching the content as much as I had fun making them!"🤗

🎊Congratulations Debbie! Thank you for connecting current and former Spartans to what our King Library has to offer! We hope to see you around and we look forward to what's in store for you beyond!💙💛

📸Photographer : .peters.media

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