From the 3,500 volume "library room" in 1915 to 1.7 million volumes in 2005 housed across four floors and the Internet, the Hekman Library has certainly seen many changes over the years. Many of the full text articles linked below, printed in various publications, provide readers with a glimpse of the issues that the Library faced, while other articles offer a reflection on the past, to the place that the Hekman Library occupied in the communities of Calvin and of Grand Rapids.

2010

• The library's website is redesigned
• Evergreen, an integrated computer system designed to manage the operations within the library, replaces SIRSI

2008

• Hekman librarians, Kathy DeMey, Sarah Kolk, Diane Vander Pol, host the first "Building a Bridge" conference intended to increase communication between high school librarians and college librarians.
• The library staff zones the library in an attempt to control noise. The large 4th floor study area is built.

2007

• Students are employed at the Research Assistance Desk to help librarians answer research questions
• Chat (IM) is introduced as another way to contact librarians for research assistance 
• Library celebrates its 40th year as a United States Government Documents repository

2005

• The library's website is redesigned using a content management system (CMS) 
• Librarians join forces with English professors to teach research fluency in English 101
• First Annual Disc Golf Tournament is held in the Hekman Library

• KnightCite, one of the most popular citation generators on the Web, is introduced by Calvin's Justin Searls (student programmer) and Greg Sennema 
• First issue of the Library Privy is published

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